Hear about the differences between Americans and the French, as seen by French tourists in Central Park. What do you think? Do Americans really have the best hamburgers? Are French people the most attentionnés?

Annie shows off her skills as a chanteuse, her sharp wit, and her penchant for penning clever lyrics in this rockin’ number from her band Ma Blonde Est Une Chanteuse. See if you can count how many of Annie’s personae you catch a glimpse of or how many of her Annie-mated wordplays you can follow in this fun video. But beware, the song is seriously catchy and may leave you wanting more!

Ever heard of a pleurotte mushroom? Lacking as we are in mushroom expertise, we hadn’t either —- until we visited Les Héritiers, that is. The restaurant serves a dish of pleurottes with a brie cheese pastry and escargots. Here we get a backstage look at the kitchen of Les Héritiers as the chefs prepare this scrumptious dish. What’s better than having a backstage pass to watch as the dish is prepared? Getting to eat it, of course. Bon appétit!

Rock and roll, garage, hard-core, street punk—from Black Flag to Agnostic Front to Crisis, Frustration isn’t just a sentiment, it’s a way of life! With Frustration, “Your life will be more sad, but it’ll be more lucid.”

A first look at French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to South Africa. He proposes a new axis in the capital’s Françafrican politics and shores up relations with English-speaking Africa.

This newspaper, called “The sapper’s candle” (a “sapper” is traditionally a military man who disarms mines), only comes out on the leap year. But how can a periodical published only on February twenty-ninth be financially sound? Maybe it’s true: less is more.

For more than ten years, Les Héritiers [The Heirs] restaurant in Montreal, which specializes in French cuisine made from Quebecois ingredients, has been concocting dishes like risotto with marinated ginger and rack of lamb with garlic and rosemary sauce. But the food isn’t the only reason for the popularity of Les Héritiers; you can bring your own wine!

Billions (oui, milliards!) of birds migrate from Africa every year, and with bird flu developing rapidly, their arrival to France is closely monitored at the Marquenterre National Park. Learn how French scientists and engineers there have taken innovative measures to make it difficult for the virus to settle in the mud where the birds like to feed.

Disiz La Peste (this is the plague) has begun acting, including in Dans tes rêves (In Your Dreams), which relates the story of a young rapper trying to make his way in the music industry.

Dahlia formed in 1999 in the province of Brittany in northwest France as a collaboration between guitarist Guillaume Fresneau and cellist Armel Talarmain.

Peaceful student demonstrations were marred by the intrusion of young rioters, non-students who joined in and caused mayhem and violence. Now the student organizers have accepted the aid of union members and are working together to keep the march safe.

Amadou and Mariam reference a number of West African musical instruments in “Sundays in Bamako”.

Will french dentists soon be having their patients grow new teeth, instead of filling in the old ones?

French scientists study Antarctic ice samples 740,000 years old and find clues that point to a relationship between greenhouse gases effect and global warming. It is feared that the record high carbon and methane levels of today will cause severe climatic change in coming years.

Montreal is famous for hockey, but who cares about hockey when you can have chocolat? Edith Gagnon, owner of La Maison Cakao, shows us the magic behind her charmant chocolates. You may want to have a stash of your own chocolate on hand as you watch this video, because the demonstrations are likely to work up quite an appetite for something cocoa-y.

Even the Chinese agree with French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy: the great wall of china is NOT visible to the human eye from space, not even from a low orbit. Chinese astronaut Yan Liwei, who orbited the earth fourteen times in a Chinese spaceship, couldn’t see it either.

Hipsters all over the world are surely mourning the loss of their favorite instant-nostalgia art medium: the Polaroid. With the recent closing of the last two remaining Polaroid factories in the U.S., it looks like that familiar and much-loved “ch-click-whrrr” sound will soon become a thing of the past. Polaroid has plans to soon launch products suited to the digital era. But can anything ever compare to the one and only original? Only time will tell.

The magic of Nicolas Ghesquière? Innovating, without betraying the heritage of the venerable fashion house of Balenciaga.

Babylon Circus is a ska band from Lyon but in this song they touch upon ‘90s retro swing of the Squirrel Nut Zippers variety, evoking a mythical, bohemian underworld that’s lost in time. It’s a song about romantic regrets, missed cues and lost opportunities – “j’aurais bien voulu” could well be translated as “woulda shoulda coulda.”

French ambiance, old movies and nouvel art make Paris by night even more exciting. Astounding compositions, the boxing fight of the century, expositions in strange places are just some of the features that the French call l’art de vivre!