From the top of the Puy-de-Dome, a 5,500-foot extinct volcano in the center of France, several smaller volcanoes circling it resemble bowls of velvety, bright green English pea soup. In the millenniums since the last eruption of these volcanoes, layers of grass have covered the craters, along with trees and plants in several of them. Most are as smooth as soup bowls.
Even in left-leaning France, there wouldn't have been enough wine in all of France to convince a politician that he could successfully market the NPA's battle cry - they want nothing less than "a total break with capitalism" - to the voting public. "The right to happiness," a PG deputy said flatly, "is still a new idea." And that's what they're selling. There is room for everyone with legitimate political opinions, a PG official said in a radio interview. "This does not include the right." What should French conservatives do, he was asked? "They should leave the country." "Down with [Nicolas Sarkozy]," a sign hanging from a city hall in the Auvergne region read, "Death to the capitalists." The Auvergne is one of the country's most conservative regions. Of course, there are cynics ... o...
La vie de chateau. Life in a castle or, as we might call it, the life of Riley, in the Rhone-Alpes region of France. Castles transformed into wonderful hotels, restaurants serving delicious food and wine, charming villages, ancient towns, Roman ruins, a gentle landscape of rolling hills covered with vineyards, and valleys perfumed by lavender fields. What more could anyone ask? There's even a castle that has been turned into a wine university. The Rhone-Alpes extends from the vineyards of Burgundy in the north to the sunshine of Provence in the south; from the wild rolling hills of Auvergne in the west to the splendor of the towering Alps in the east.
A very wise man named Clifton Fadiman once waxed philosophically about cheese, saying it was milk's leap toward immortality. If that's true, then considering the fine plates of artisan cheese served in our city, Philly's something of a dairy disciple's Shangri-La. Don't worship at any old cheese church-expand your mind and let Field Guide be your milk maharishi. The restrolounge, brassecafe, fusionateria Snackbar (253 S. 20th St. 215.545.5655) slings small plates for big bucks to Square dinner junkies. The cheese plate consists of sharp Canadian cheddar, pungent-but-creamy Bleu d'Auvergne and an Italian goat's milk caprino that rocks. Don't be a cheapskate-come watch the clotheshorses evermore. WADK Beneluxx (33 S. Third St., lower level. 215.413.1918) is a mad scientist's dream come tr...
AURILLAC, France - Luis-Leon Sanchez of Spain won the seventh stage of the Tour de France Friday, moving ahead with 2 1/2 miles to go and holding on for the victory. Kim Kirchen of Luxembourg retained the yellow jersey as the overall leader after Friday's windy stage of 99 miles from Brioude to Aurillac in the Auvergne.
FRANCE WELCOMES WHEELED HISTORY TO RE-ENACT RACE CLERMONT-FERRAND, France -- The names "Peugeot" and "Panhard" would not be unexpected at a vintage-car event in France. Nor "Michelin" at any gathering of motoring enthusiasts. But those names belonged to flesh-and-blood people as well as cars and tires at a June 3-5 celebration of a pioneering car race near this Auvergne city.
Mahlerian depth, Brahmsian breadth Kirsten Lear has sung quite a bit of repertoire with the Santa Fe Symphony in the last seven years, from Aaron Copland's Old American Songs and Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne to Mozart's Solemn Vespers of a Confessor, Handel's Messiah, and even Franz Lehar's operetta aria "Meine Lippen sie kssen so heiss." Now the mezzo-soprano, a northern New Mexico native, solos in one of the most glorious song cycles in the German repertoire: Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, usually translated as "Songs of a Wayfarer" but more accurately titled "Songs of a Traveling Apprentice.
WOOSTER -- The Wooster Symphony Orchestra will open its 92nd season on Saturdayat 8:15 p.m. in McGaw Chapel, 340 E. University St., with some familiar faces, including pianist Brian Dykstra and composer Jack Gallagher, both longtime members of the music faculty at Wooster. The two will be joined by soprano Kati Ling Olsen, daughter of Stuart and Terry Ling. The performance will be highlighted by the premiere of Gallagher's Sinfonietta for String Orchestra. Also on the program are Bach's Concerto No. 2 in E Major for Keyboard and Orchestra, BWV 1053; Floyd's "Ain't it a Pretty Night" from Susannah; Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne; Herbert's "Art is Calling for Me" from The Enchantress; and Holst's "Jupiter" from The Planets.
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