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Sunday, December 07, 2025

The New Year's Eve concert on the Champs lyses has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host its usual spectacle. A free open-air concert at the Arc de Triomphe, video projections on the monument and the midnight festivities that once drew close to a million people. Instead, the concert has been scrapped. It will be replaced on national television with a prerecorded concert filmed weeks ago with a handpicked crowd to mimic a celebration Paris no longer believes it can safely host. A capital once famed for its public life now performs it under studio conditions.

Posted by oneironaut at 10:20 PM | 23 COMMENTS | permalink

Wonder what they are afraid of?

Comments

Onetinynut is a loser and a ------- idiot sock puppet. ---- off, bitch.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-07 10:52 PM

I was in Paris last May during the celebration for VE day. Macron drove past me on the way to the Arc D' Triumph. Didn't seem like a studio to me. But you're too ------- stupid to know Los Angeles is in California, you ignorant MAGAT ----.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-07 10:55 PM

onepigironsmoothbrainaut says wut?

#3 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-07 10:59 PM

When you're in Paris be sure to stop by Crperie de l'le Saint-Louis

#4 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-07 11:01 PM

And Paris is wonderful for this ...

www.notredamedeparis.fr<>

#5 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-07 11:03 PM

And this ...

Paris boasts world-renowned museums like the Louvre (antiquities, European art) and Muse d'Orsay (Impressionism in a former train station), alongside unique spots like the Muse Rodin (sculptures in gardens) and the Muse du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (non-Western art). From grand art collections to niche topics like fashion, medicine, and French history, Paris offers a diverse range of cultural experiences, with many options beyond the most famous names.

Plus ...

#6 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-07 11:06 PM

Paris nightlife for tourists offers diverse options from iconic cabarets (Moulin Rouge) and jazz clubs (Le Caveau de la Huchette) to trendy bars (Le Marais, Pigalle) and upscale clubs, plus unique experiences like Seine cruises and rooftop drinks. Popular areas include Le Marais (LGBT-friendly), Bastille (bars/clubs), and Montmartre (historic cabarets).

#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-07 11:08 PM

Are you content with being publicly humiliated each time you post, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut?

Or is this your kink?

Stroke it a few times, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut ...

... and then let us know your answer.

#8 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-07 11:12 PM

Wonder what they are afraid of?

Apparently that the crowds would be too large to manage.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-07 11:22 PM

This kinda sucks. I got dragged into a Paris trip a few years ago with much trepidation. I really enjoyed it. Great city IMO.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-12-08 12:09 AM

This kinda sucks.

Most of the European tourist trap cities are trying to throttle back the crowds these days.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-08 12:25 AM

" I got dragged into a Paris trip a few years ago with much trepidation. I really enjoyed it. "

I know what you mean.

I never wanted to go to Europe...until I went to Europe.

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-08 01:42 AM

"Most of the European tourist trap cities are trying to throttle back the crowds these days."

I read inter-euro travel was way up.

Personally, on a recent trip through five national parks, 90% of the foreign visitors I saw were Asian.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-08 01:46 AM

I read inter-euro travel was way up.

No idea. I do know a lot of cities have implemented tourist restrictions.

Athens, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Malaga, Venice... bunch of others. France is usually the "most visited" country on the planet.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-08 01:51 AM

Paris of a winter morning is a special, dreamlike delight, some fog cloaking the river, crisp air, no crowds.

#15 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-08 05:52 AM

DANFORTH
Re your #13:

In early 2025, the U.S. Travel Association projected foreign travel spending would rise to $200.8 billion this year.

However, noting a "sharp and widespread" drop in arrivals, the World Travel & Tourism Council in May projected international visitor spending would drop to $169 billion for the year.

The lost revenue is set to benefit other countries " notably Canada and Latin America " as travelers seek out other destinations or decide to stay within their own countries or regions.

In the first half of 2025, Canadian arrivals to the U.S. fell nearly 18% year on year, representing a drop of more than 1,750,000 visits, according to the U.S. International Trade Administration.
www.cnbc.com

#16 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-08 05:58 AM

@#12 ... I never wanted to go to Europe...until I went to Europe. ...

For me it was similar. Then I had to go to Europe for business.

I visited The Netherlands. Specifically, business in Rotterdam, with weekend excursions into Amsterdam.

In my experience, the people there were great.

The people of the business I was visiting took me out to the countryside for dinner one evening. The waiter was a person from Ohio.

Looking back (now about two decades) the business trips I made to The Netherlands were excellent.

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 06:59 PM

17. We were in Malaga in early November 2016, right before the US election. Picasso's birthplace, and they have a small museum there. Small, because he left at age 18 and never returned.

All the Europeans we met that week were looking for assurance that Clinton would win the presidency, which we gave them.

To me, the highlight of the week on the Spanish coast was the day trip to Tangier. My one day in Africa.

I loved seeing the beach where Allen Ginsberg took the famous photograph of Jack Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky in bathing trunks, with William Burroughs stretched out in the sand wearing a suit.

Riding a camel was a bit unnerving.

#18 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-08 09:08 PM

For 14. Sorry.

#19 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-08 09:09 PM

But for 17.

More than three decades ago, I was laying out newspapers to try to house train a dog and saw an ad for KLM, $399 per person from the city we were in, round trip to Amsterdam, including four nights at 5-star Hotel Pulitzer. Few blocks from the Anne Frank House.

Mid March. Tulip season starts April 1, and rates go sky high.

I'd live there in a heartbeat.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-08 09:14 PM

Rwing writer at the Rwing Spectator bashes immigrants?

Must be a day ending in Y. Funny that an immigrant posted it.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-08 09:42 PM

OneiroNUT is as much a Chinese Immigrant as I am.

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-08 09:52 PM

OneiroNUT is as much a Chinese Immigrant as I am.

He has reverted back to being just another Kry Klub member.

#23 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-08 09:58 PM

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