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June 2-3
This weekend is the Portes Ouvertes at Les Frigos! Check out the artist studios in one of the most famous former squats in Paris. In the 13th (near the Bibliothèque Mitterrand, just off Rue de Tolbiac), ree entry, Saturday (2-10pm) and Sunday (2-8pm).

June 8-10
Nearly 6,000 feathered and sequinned costumes, designed and made in the workshops of the Folies Bergère, one of the world’s most prestigious music-halls, are going on auction at the Palais de la Bourse (Place de la Bourse, 2nd) over three sessions (two catalogued sales on Saturday 9th at 6pm and Sunday 10th at 4pm, one non-catalogued sale of costumes, accessories, notions and supplies). To this magnificent set of lots will be added a hundred posters and programmes recounting a century of revues, original musical scores composed for Folies Bergère revues and drawings by famous fashion illustrator Erté. Public exhibition of the collection from 2-6pm on Friday, 10am-5pm on Saturday, 10am-3pm on Sunday.

June 17
It's time yet again to don your most fashionable hat and a picnic basket and head up to Chantilly for the annual Prix de Diane at the Chantilly Hippodrome. It's Ladies' Day at the races, and the fashions might overshadown the horses, but overall it's a fabulous day out for free (well, if you can get out there by train or car or helicopter). Check out one of my posts from the 2010 event with photos.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

I have a Navigo pass, one of those annual magnetic passes that work on the Paris Metro/Bus/Tram network, but I usually have a few extra metro tickets in my wallet for tour clients and friends who don't have one. Lately it seemed that almost all of them didn't "work". And yet they weren't used. The last time I had to return an entire carnet of ten tickets that were demagnetized, and the cashier gave me a little pamphlet to read. Apparently this is happening a lot with the new tickets, which seem a tad more sensitive than the old ones.

To protect them, don't put your tickets next to anything magnetic:

- mobile phone

- credit cards

- your Navigo pass or any other "swipe" cards

- the magnetic clasp on a purse or wallet

This doesn't leave many places left, does it! If there's a human at a ticket window, you can easily exchange demagnetized tickets for new ones, but often there isn't, so take precautions.

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