Paris Travel Services with Terrance Gelenter

Chez Terrance with Susan Griffin and The Book of the Courtesans

Terrance — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:59:49 +0000

Another Sunday Night Chez Terrance
San Francisco Bay Area author and Pulitzer Prize candidate Susan Griffin gives us a radically new interpretation of an erotic tradition which was practiced from antiquity to the early twentieth century throughout Europe and eventually America. Though Turkish harems, Japanese geisha and Chinese courtesans [...]

Meet Riva Yares-Sleeping with Dogs

Terrance — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:17:39 +0000

She may sleep with dogs but she has hung out with exceptional people-

Hans Hofmann

Robert Graham

E.L.Doctorow

Helen Frankenthaler

Frank Stella

Born in British Mandate Palestine she was raised in a revisionist Zionist family and was “recruited” by the Menachem Begin Irgun. So after casting of the yoke of the Brits tackling the world [...]

L’Agapé

Terrance — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:39:34 +0000

The flagship of three stylish Paris restaurants is in the 17th arrondissement. It was 1 May, a national holiday in France and M, our sommelier and I had our choice of tables. A large table ronde afforded us a view if the street over the “café curtains.

We were immediately offered mini-gougères [...]

Atget at the Carnavalet

Terrance — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:13:38 +0000

230 prints made in Paris between 1898 and 1927 by one of the most famous photographers of the twentieth century, Eugene Atget (Libourne, 1857 – Paris, 1927).

This retrospective, which includes well-known images and others that were unpublished, represents an atypical view of the capital, far from the clichés of the Belle [...]

D-Day Lest We Forget

Terrance — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:33:08 +0000

June 6.” Lest we Forget.” Come hear long-time Paris resident and author, Hilary Kaiser, read from her newly-released paperback WWII Voices: American GI’s and the French Women Who Married Them. In addition to some of the soldiers’ amazing wartime experiences on D-Day, Hilary will tell you about the French war brides’ [...]

Monsieur le Prince -6th arrondissement

Terrance — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:01:00 +0000

On the site of chez Maitre Paul an institution for over 40 years, Monsieur Le Prince is representative of new French bistros with young chefs–fresh interpretations of classics. The décor is modern but warm in tones of grey and a few well-placed mirrors to “enlarge” the space.

It was a rainy April day and René and [...]

Brooklyn Through Parisian Eyes

Terrance — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:38:32 +0000

In Brooklyn a rabbi is both a Jewish religious figure and a fixer-the guy you go to when you need to get something done and don’t have the right connections-he does! In Paris my rabbi is Albert Nahmias who is probably the most well-connected guy (not in the Mafia sense of the world) in Parisian [...]

Le Méchoui du Prince–6th arrondissement

Terrance — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:23:28 +0000

Le Méchoui du Prince

It was a cold, blustery day–typical of April in Paris and I yearned for something substantial. I was having lunch with my friend and printer Eric Boulin and he had what turned out to be a better idea-couscous at Le Méchoui du Prince near le Théatre de L’Odéon.

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L’Instant d’Or

Terrance — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:23:49 +0000

The new restaurant L’Instant d’Or on the avenue George V sits directly across the street from the Hotel George V and the Prince de Galles. The signage is comparable to 1920’s speakeasy so I suggest that you approach it slowly or you’ll walk right on by and that would be a big mistake.

Terrance — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:36:23 +0000

April 10, 2012

To: Regis Lecendreux

From: Terrance Gelenter

Subject: Thursday Nights at the Duke’s Bar

Cher Regis,

What I suggested at our original meeting has come to pass in a mere seven weeks-Thursday Nights at the Dukes Bar is becoming a must attend event! Sheldon, my accompanist and I are performing [...]