Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   It’s in the diary. [May 25th for a Keyholder apéro]( on the Seine.  In the meantime, meet me for a virtual glass of Pinot this weekend as we toast to the [coal-shovelling “country bumpkins” who gave us Parisian Café culture]( (and are still running the show behind those zinc countertops). We could squeeze into the [Miniature Café de Flore within Café de Flore]( or park ourselves [under the Eiffel Tower at the Art Nouveau bistrot circa 1900](.  Your choice. Stay curious, [Nessy]   [The Lost Art and Delight of Mexican Calendar Art](  [calendarart]( Sex sells – and the message couldn’t have been any clearer when it came to advertising in post-revolutionary Mexican. Images of beautiful people served a multitude of purposes: a nationalistic one to quite blatantly plug the new regime, that of a new bountiful and fertile country, modern, productive and populated by good-looking folks from a…  [Continue Reading](   [The Country Bumpkins who gave us Parisian Café Culture](  [ark__73873_pf0001848339_v0001-930x603-1]( When we think of Parisian café culture, we might think of the “intello-chic” literary crowd that congregated at the Café de Flore with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre in the 1950s, or the glamorous flappers that held court on Boulevard Montparnasse during the Années Folles, mesmerising artists like Man Ray and Picasso. It’s…  [Continue Reading](   [That Time Reality TV made a Real-Life Lord of the Flies](  [kid_nation_featured-1]( One of the most popular questions in ethics is what would happen in a real Lord of the Flies in which a group of children were left to fend for themselves. In 2007, one reality TV show decided to find out, letting 40 kids loose on a movie ranch set with no adult supervision —…  [Continue Reading](   [She was the Queen of the Cakewalk and the Most Famous Black Woman of the Gilded Age](  [Aida_Overton_Walker_1910-930x1310]( In 1912, Aida Overton Walker stood at the top of the stairs at the Victoria Theater about to make her entrance as Salomé in the one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde. By then, the Salomé craze was mostly over, but the role still had plenty of allure. At a time when women had few rights and…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCI)](  [Tours_de_Merle_France]( [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.