Sydney Fest switches on its Opera.

... with his multicoloured butterflies on the sea stage until June 14th,
Brian Eno computerized a show based on a 77 Million Paintings
visual masterpiece.


Gregg Wood/AFP/Getty Images.

"Sydney Opera House presents LUMINOUS, a festival of music, ideas, light
and performance. Curated by Brian Eno, this inaugural year features a plethora
of music acts, alongside public talks and spectacular light and art installations.
Music highlights include Battles, Ladytron, Lee Scratch Perry, Jon Hassell,
Reggie Watts and Karl Hyde. LUMINOUS is part of Vivid Sydney, a Sydney
wide mid-year festival".
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Enough Bananas !

Because the news from Italy are still distressing...
(e.g. : the Mills' affair) since Italians themselves
seem unable to ward off fate...

This is the video document about the Berlusco's Italy, realised
and released two years ago by WNET-channel 13, the most
watched public TV station in the New York metropolitan area.

Part I (of 6)


Part II


Part III


Part IV


Part V


Part VI
(where the immunity bill has been voted).

(Aquilasenzanido)

Does Berlusconi Threaten Italian Democracy?
(Crispian Balmer, Chief Correspondent, Reuters/Italy).

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Oberkampf's brocantes, or secondhand shops.

All secondhand goods 
you're searching for
are in this spot...
or at least most of them !
Yours faithfully, G@tto



Recycling & La Maison


La Chose


Alasinglinglin


Déviations and... Thierry's


Trölls & Puces and Belle Lurette



Another interesting shop,
for unusual discoveries
is Stéphane's warehouse,
at 154 rue Oberkampf,
straight at the bottom
of a charming alley...







And, higher on Ménilmontant (but still in my fief), Eva Pritsky's,
of course !



*****

Le Mur, a new life soon, but when ?

. . .

Was this one a 'Mission' ? Nope.

...

Not exactly... let's say a good soirée at Le Blue Billard.

(111, rue Saint-Maur - Paris XI).

And the Blue Bayou is just upstairs, for a Jambalaya or another cajun course.

...