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Love Johnny Romero Long Time

May 8, 2015 – 2:18 am

A comment from a reader about Johnny Romero, a great bon vivant from the 1950s in paris. Dearest Claudia, I am Susy Küttel, the Swiss “girl” who was very much in love with Johnny, your father. I always remember him and our love was very deep and connected with lots of problems. Destiny divided us […]

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Bridges and Typewriters

November 22, 2014 – 6:15 am

In Jan. 1982 a french magazine ACTUEL hired me to work the work at their Paris nightclub, Le Rex. I bid good-bye to New York and flew from JFK to Heathrow with one bag of my best clothing and an Olivetti typewriter. After a brief visit with friends in London, I boarded a train at […]

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Le Livre de Philippe Waty

November 15, 2014 – 9:11 pm

The Steamin’ Musselmen or les Muselmans Fumant were an artistic troupe de force in Paris through the 1980s and 1990s. Philippe Waty co-founded the group and his vibrant iconography adorned the walls of the abandoned city quarters. Philippe painted with the spirit of Chester Hines’s Black America matched by his collaborators; Fabrice Langlade, Tristam de […]

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Yves Klein’s Leap

September 6, 2014 – 10:17 am

Yves Klein was a pop minimalist genius. In 1960 he staged the photo SAUT DANS LE VIDE or LEAP INTO THE VOID from a rooftop in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. His friends caught him in a tarp. The photo was then published in a fake newspaper at Paris news kiosks. I love Yves Klein. […]

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Red Tramps

August 31, 2014 – 4:38 pm

Tramps are cool too. Workers of the Universe unite. Resistance is not futile. Foto came from Eric Bedos of Paris

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