The French Office Survival Guide

You Can Call Me Ashley

5 weeks in and I still feel like I only moved to France a few days ago, (I definitely look it too, never hard to spot the Irish girl even in the biggest of crowds!). Everyday I’m still meeting new people, finding new places and learning new things, what more could you ask for in life?

But it’s not all fun and games, there’s also work to be done! I came here for my market research internship and from 9am ’til 5.30pm, Monday to Friday (give or take on average at least one bank holiday a week) that’s what I do.

I’ve had a few slow starts, made some rookie mistakes and still say “Oui” to everything but these last few weeks I’ve picked up some new vocabulaire and conseils, and can safely say I can add to my list of how to survive in a French working environment!

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Bert and Ernie Celebrating Gay Rights Supreme Court Rulings: New Yorker Cover

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Next week’s cover of the New Yorker Magazine

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Broadway 2013-2014 Season Guide

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(Here is a list just of Broadway Spring 2014 openings)

Updated June 4, 2014

Listed below, chronologically by opening dates, are the shows that opened on Broadway in the 2013-2014 season.  (An x besides the title means it has closed as of June, 2014).

 

Click here for a rundown on Broadway’s 15 longest-running shows and biggest current hits

JULY, 2013

xFOREVER TANGO

• Walter Kerr Theater
• First Preview: July 9, 2013
• Opening: July 14
• Closing: September 15
• Cast: Gilberto Santa Rosa
• “Forever Tango is music, drama, culture, a way of life”
• Twitter: @deforevertango

My review of Forever Tango

Closed

xLET IT BE

• Theatre: St. James Theatre
• First Preview: July 16, 2013
• Opening: July 24, 2013
• Let It Be began as a West End production to celebrate The Beatles’ 50th anniversary. Using projection technology and 3D sound, the show chronicles the Beatles’ rise from Liverpool’s Cavern Club to…

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Top Gear Live

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Top Gear Live, originally uploaded by magnum_lady.

So this weekend Top Gear Live was at the RDS in Dublin. Jono is a massive Top Gear fan (so am I), so when the tickets went on sale in July we got them.

We were going to travel up today, but the rail line is still closed from Carrick on Shannon to Longford due to the flooding and a bus transfer was operating between those stations but there have been delays. So rather then miss the show we went to Dublin yesterday and managed to book a room at Bewleys Hotel which is near the RDS.

We left Collooney just after 7pm and didn’t get to the hotel until almost 11pm. There was an old couple snogging most of the way during the bus journey (eww).
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Interview with Adrian Dunbar on his move from acting to direction, 1916/2016, the Gathering and 16 Moore Street…

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…in the Irish Mail, conducted by Jason O’Toole. And as usual in this series of interviews it’s a very interesting one too which touches on an array of subjects close to the hearts of many of us.

Dunbar has now moved into direction, most recently Translations by Brian Friel which opened at the Millennium Forum theatre in Derry, for which he received a standing ovation.

Dunbar first worked with the playwright when he staged an updated version of the classic Philadelphia Here I Come in London’s West End in 2003. ‘I don’t ring him up and ask for feedback on what I’m doing. I report to him and he asks me a few questions, and from those I understand what I should be doing,’ says Dunbar.

Though he admits he directed during the 1980s as well in London. And he’s quite open that:

‘I had put my toe in the…

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