Tag: France

We love creative minds. We like when people are inspired. But we were baffled by the last Nonsmokers’ Rights organization campaign created by French ad agency BDDP&Fils. We all know how hard it is to quit smoking, and how harmful can be the addiction (about 30% of all cancer deaths are directly related to habitual smoking). But comparing smoking to performing oral sex is unexpected and most of all, illustrated in a very inappropriate way. As ...

That is the title of a post published on CNN: ‘Why France is best place to live in world’. Bindi Dupouy is Australian, she lives in Paris and she’s married to a French man. Most of the Sama Team members live in Paris and we were very happy to read that France was voted the best place in the world to live for the fifth year in a row by International Living magazine. Let’s find out the reasons exposed in CNN’s article by ...

  If you are a regular reader of The Sama Gazette (aka a Sama-Reader), then you probably already know the Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society.  It has been a while since we first mentioned it on the Gazette and many of you are very interested in the idea of a Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society. We also are. And we are working on it, as the information already leaked from a careless but still beloved Sama Team member (it starts with an ...

Today is Friday, some of us have already left the office and when we read Max Dana‘s latest post published on her blog yesterday, we thought it would make a perfect Friday update. Max talks about a great short movie directed by Claude Lelouch in 1976. And we agree, if you have never seen it before, go buy or rent the DVD!   “How did I forget to mention ‘Rendezvous’? I enjoy gun scenes in movies (From Scarface to Smokin’ Aces: the art ...

  Many events will take place on January 9th to support Sudan365: A Beat For Peace. If you don’t know what this special day is about, here is more information coming from the Save Darfur Website:   A global day of action on Sudan will take place on January 9th, 2010, marking the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan and one year out from the referendum that will determine whether the Southern ...

Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor, he is an icon, a rock legend (known as the “French Elvis” abroad) and one of France’s biggest stars. For a week now, every eyes in France are focused on the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Johnny Hallyday‘s hospitalization has gone unnoticed by Americans, and his name may not ring a bell to any of our foreign readers but what’s happening there is something ...

Everyday we check our list of news websites and the Huffington Post is one of them. We appreciate their editors and writers and there is always something interesting to read. But today, this article: Carla Bruni’s Little Black Dress really caught our attention. Not because Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is the wife of our beloved President, no. It’s because we enjoy reading articles about her with another (no French) point of view. Related News On ...

  If you frequently read the Sama Gazette, then you know we appreciate l’Art de vivre à la Française (French Art of Living) and that we are seriously thinking about launching the Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society for real. Our friends at Cool Hunting (website and @coolhunting) have posted a very interesting article about French company Côté Bastide bath products they discovered while staying at the Hotel Pastis (funny name) in Saint Tropez ...

Dailymotion is the French equivalent to Youtube, and it was launched 4 years ago. The site has 60 million users, 1 billion videos viewed a month, and it is offering both amateur and professional content, with contextual advertising. Like on Youtube, you can watch serious video as well as more weird video. The site is independant, but will it stay this way? Many questions are raising since the organism of the French State: FSI (Fonds Strategique ...

  We are Saturday afternoon, it’s cold outside and it’s time for goûter: let’s make French Toast! In France, French toasts are called Pain perdu, made of stale bread, soaked in milk then in eggs and go for the skillet. A good way not to waste bread and to pleased the kids.   I am always surprised when I see someone making French toast (like Penny in a recent episode of The Big Band Theory) because in France, the Pain perdu is not ...