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Author! Author!

jacqueline_susannLa Cieca is simply overjoyed to announce a handy and fascinating innovation at parterre.com: The Author Archive Page. Each of your doyenne’s stable of scribes will be assigned his and/or her own unique page where every story under that byline will be easily accessible—as, for example, the many and wondrous reviews of Ercole Farnese. Look for the link to the archive on the author’s name in the byline of the story (immediately beneath the headline) and may this new feature bring you hours of reading enjoyment, cher public!

The return of threaded comments

threaded_commentsIn order to facilitate more in-depth discussion, La Cieca has asked the parterre.com web guru to reinstate “threaded” comments. Read more »

Mystery? Science?

mst3kThis is post number 3,000 on parterre.com.

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Where the elite meet

La Cieca recalls the words of her old, old, old friend Eve Harrington: “In good conscience, I must give credit where credit is due.”  And far be it for La Cieca to begrudge her cher public something so freely given by Little Miss Evil.

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The phantom of the opera-l

La Cieca (not pictured) has been asked to spread the word that the Opera-L list is down due to the power outages in New Jersey where it is hosted. The latest information is that it is hoped to be up sometime Wednesday. UPDATE: Opera-L is now operational again.

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The naming of names

A confab with our redoubtable Internets Guru Nick Scholl just now resulted in two innovations. First, for those of you who want a quick and handy way to keep up with recent comments, there is now a comments feed button in the left navigation bar just beneath the display of the most recent mots from the cher public. You can click on it to see the last 20 comments, or else subscribe to the feed and keep up that way. 

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Housekeeping: the art of conversation

La Cieca has heard a few complaints that the “threaded” comments format (you know, “2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1,” etc.) can be difficult to untangle for occasional visitors. While we’re not quite up to unthreading the comments, we do want to keep the cher public happy. So what do you think about the following options for keeping you up to date on the parterre conversation? 

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Ceci n’est pas un commentaire

Cher public, don’t write comments like this one:

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