by Anne Marie | 24-11-2021 | Agenda, Museum - Art, News, See All French artist in San FranciscoSFAI
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti introduces the visitor to the sculptural works by twenty-two contemporary artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Haiti. Derived from a sentence pronounced by General...
by Anne Marie | 24-11-2021 | News East BayimmigrationSuccess Story
The pathway to the American dream can be varied but always challenging. Vincent Salimi, elected at Pinole is a classic example. Naturalized French in 2000, Salimi was born in Iran. He left his home country in 1984 with his parents when he was still a child. The family...
by Anne Marie | 27-10-2021 | Business, News BlockchainFrench EntrepreneurNFTsThomas France
We are no longer explaining the Internet to our mothers, but it’s a safe bet that we will have to try to shed light on NFTs in the months to come. These three letters, which stand for Non Fungible Tokens, have invaded posts, conversations and are often the...
by Anne Marie | 24-10-2021 | Education, News, Schools, Settle In BilingualEducationRemote Education
To well-born souls, value does not wait for the number of years: this famous quote by Pierre Corneille sticks perfectly to Emilie Nolf, educator specializing in bilingualism and recently honored with the Academic Palms (a.k.a Palmes Académiques). It always sounds like...
by Anne Marie | 6-10-2021 | Consulat, News, Settle In FACSFrench Consulate in San FranciscoFrench Embassy Cultural ServicesLa Villa San FranciscoOakland-Saint Denis
It is challenging to put our new Cultural Attaché, Sabine de Maussion, in a box because her profile is outside the beaten track. But if there’s one constituency where she should feel like a fish in water, it’s San Francisco. Having arrived less than a...
by Anne Marie | 22-09-2021 | Business, News CrowdsourcingE-CommerceFrench FoundersWine Industry
Neophyte or epicure, the Vivino app helps its users to explore new territories in terms of wines. Using Vivino is a great way to discover North American wines whether you have been living in the Bay Area for some time or have just moved there. Based on the principle...
by Anne Marie | 15-09-2021 | Business, News AdventureParalympicsPhilippe CroizonResilienceSpaceX
You have surely heard of this very unique French adventurer. To his credit, a series of quite impressive achievements such as swimming across the Channel or the Bering Strait, participating in the Dakar Rallye as a driver… and many more. For Croizon, it’s not...
by Anne Marie | 9-09-2021 | Agenda, Movie, See All French cinemaFrench movies with subtitlesJuliette BinocheVogue Theater
This feature film “Who You Think I Am” with Juliette Binoche is adapted from a novel by Camille Laurens. Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young brunette online and...