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Videodrome 2 screens weird films on Cours Julien most nights - check the program before you go, doors open at 7:30. The Cours Julien organic market on Wednesdays and Saturdays is where half the neighborhood does its actual grocery shopping, get there by 9am. Tangerine is a concept store and cultural space on the slope where vintage finds share floor space with DJ sets on weekends.
3 things to do, 3 shops, all in Notre-Dame-du-Mont.
Notre-Dame-du-Mont's cultural weight sits almost entirely on Cours Julien: Espace Julien has been booking hip-hop and rock in a 1984-era market hall for forty years, Videodrome 2 runs around 320 films a year on pay-what-you-can terms, and Tangerine handles the weekend DJ-and-vintage end of the spectrum.
Concept store and cultural space on the Cours Julien slope mixing vintage finds, local design pop-ups, and weekend DJ sets. Sun-drenched and casual, with stock that changes often enough to warrant repeat visits.
Non-commercial cinema, video club, bar, and independent film bookshop at 49 Cours Julien, screening around 320 films a year on a pay-what-you-want basis. Programming runs from queer cinema to Italian radical film to activist documentaries, and the terrace is a good place to argue about what you just watched.
Mid-size music venue at 39 Cours Julien, founded in 1984 in a former market hall, now hosting over 150 shows a year across hip-hop, rock, electronic, jazz, and chanson française. The 1,000-capacity main room has an unusual cinemascope-shaped stage, and the smaller Café Julien space sometimes runs free events.
Notre-Dame-du-Mont's shopping is small-scale and opinionated: Saison edits its lifestyle inventory down to what its owners actually stand behind, History of the Eye keeps 8,500 titles in literature, theatre, and art moving through Rue Fontange, and BAIXE has been cutting and sewing its own clothes at 63 Cours Julien since the early 1980s. Three shops, three decades of conviction between them.
Lifestyle boutique in the Notre-Dame-du-Mont quarter where every object feels deliberately chosen. Small inventory, strong point of view, and the sort of place that solves gift-giving problems instantly.
Clothing label and shop-workshop at 63 Cours Julien since the early 1980s, now run by Basile Baixe, with every piece designed, cut, and sewn entirely in Marseille. Fluid cuts, bold exclusive prints, and a new men's line launched in 2024 make it one of the district's longest-standing fashion institutions.
Nadia Champesme's independent bookshop on Rue Fontange stocks over 8,500 references across contemporary literature, theatre, poetry, art monographs, photography, and architecture. Regular author readings and exhibitions in the gallery space, plus affiliated shops at Vieille Charité and Musée Cantini.
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