Category Archives: PARIS

Gothic Flames From Notre Dame

April 16, 2019 – 9:22 pm

Written Apr 16, 2019 After Viktor Malenski was murdered outside the Continental Lounge on the Far Westside by persons unknown, I fled New York to Paris. 1982 was a good year for a fugitive in the City of Light. I worked at a popular nightclub, wrote poetry in my journals, and lived in the garret […]

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Azzadine Alaia Ride The Stars

November 19, 2017 – 7:35 pm

Azzadine Alaia was born in Tunis, Tunisia, an ancient city dating back to Carthage. His family were wheat farmers, but his glamorous older sister nurtured his love of fashion and his mother’s friend gave the young man VOGUE magazine. Elegance extraordinaire. After studying at Tunis’ École des Beaux-Arts Azzadine lied about his age and migrated […]

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# 45 In Paris

July 15, 2017 – 7:41 am

Paris is eternal. A city separated by the Seine. Blessed by beauty. Home to people of all races. Welcoming every in the world to visitone of the greatest cities in the world. Even H?itler. Even Hitler. Maybe not. But definitely me in the 1980s. Last week Donald Trump made his 2nd visit to Europe. # […]

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MOSES’ BEST FRIEND by Peter Nolan Smith

August 25, 2016 – 2:25 pm

New York City showed its teeth the winter of 1980. The police were racketeering our after-hours nightclub. One of the Continental’s backers was a gangster from Odessa, Russia. Vadim was going out with my old girlfriend from Buffalo. The tough zek smuggled stolen icons and passed bad paper. Lisa looked good in his furs. Only […]

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Loch Ness Monster A Ile St. Louis

June 5, 2016 – 5:11 pm

The Seine has been in flood for two weeks. The water reached twenty feet above the normal flow level. Back in 1984 the Seine rose to inundate the rapid quais. Thankfully the waters receded then and now. But I’d love to see IM Pei’s pyramid underwater like that Tom Cruise movie EDGE OF TOMORROW. The […]

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