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Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.

There She Is Miss Botox

There She Is, Miss Botox

Budapest has become a raunchy European porn capital fueled by a booming plastic surgery tourism trade. Eric Pape on a...

Posted 11:07 PM | Nov 8, 2009
The Corruption Scandal Gripping Paris

The Corruption Scandal Gripping Paris

The dominant French conservative of the last 40 years, Jacques Chirac mixes W.'s folksiness with Clinton's popular a...

Posted 10:50 PM | Nov 8, 2009
Will France Ban Scientology

Will France Ban Scientology?

Five years after Tom Cruise called Nicolas Sarkozy a "wonderful guy," a French court convicted his church of fraud....

Posted 10:27 PM | Nov 1, 2009
Carla on the Couch

Carla on the Couch

After finding out she's a love child, Madame Sarkozy has been working out some big issues in therapy. Eric Pape on th...

Posted 11:35 PM | Oct 22, 2009