The Loveliest Lullaby

Could there be a song that is universally known to all Christians and many more of other denominations? It is said that the Advent classic, Silent Night, is sung in 52 languages. It was composed 200 years ago this coming Christmas. Here is the story of how it all began. Consider the catastrophe. A...
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5 Food Safety Tips for Handling Turkeys

It's the iconic dish of Thanksgiving, but your turkey could make you super sick if you're not careful. Here are a few ways...

The World's Biggest Horse Racing Events

Horse racing is a sport loved worldwide, but most of us only enjoy race meetings in the country that we reside. On the...

Foo Fighters meet Lollapalooza Berlin

Foo Fighters
"We've played Lollapalooza before, but we've never played Lollapalooza Berlin!" 85,000 people, 22 years of rock'n'roll...

Biergarten Season Finally Arrives

Munich Biergartens
It´s summer in the city and most Munich people can be found in what they call their second living room: their favorite...

VictoriaBrides Now Helps Users to Organize Real Dates

Recently, dating platform Victoria Brides has launched a new offline service that helps users to go on a real date with...

Marina von Stroganoff showcases the world of swing and jazz

Expressive whilst at the same time delicate, Jazz singer Marina von Stroganoff stylishly brings swing and jazz back to...

Flamenco y Picasso "De Málaga à Paris": An evening of toreros, bulls and Harlequins

Gisa Michelón: a dancer who is always moving on, who doesn´t stand still and every time she goes on stage she has...

The Professional's Women's Network Launches Entrepreneurship Program

PWN Munich entrepreneurship program
Leading up to this year's International Women's Day, the Professional Women's Network (PWN Munich) is proud to announce...

Ilustrated Tale: A signal

Short Story and Digital Art by Mariano Aja
 I will stop thinking for a while. I can´t, the music is a disaster and I came with Nataly. Who would think trying to...

Macy Gray and How Life Is

Macy Gray at Muffathalle, Munich
Macy Gray is quite unconventional, and for those who didn't go further than her one hit wonder "I try", the concert on...

The Science Behind Superman

Steel exterior, but soft inside
While Marvel has taken the lead in the superhero film industry, DC is now preparing a major effort to catch up. Last...

Biking through Europe, the EuroVelo way

Biking through Europe will be easier
One of the sustainable tourism projects which is more interesting and exciting in recent times has already born, the...

AC DC keeps on, Malcom Young admitted for dementia

AC DC rythmn guitarist Malcom Young
Malcom Young who took a break from the hard blues rock band AC DC, earlier this year, due to an unspecified illnes, has...

Cat Stevens on the road again

Yusuf Islam will tour North America
Cat Stevens (actually Yusuf Islam) is back on the road. The singer announced on Monday that he would make a six-city...

Celebrate Oktoberfest with Karneval Universe

Celebrate Oktoberfest with Karneval Universe
With Munich's traditional beerfest now less than two weeks away, many festival goers will be turning their attention to...

Lauren Bacall: Her beauty will never die

Laureen Bacall (1924-2014)
Lauren Baccall died at 89, after suffering a massive stroke on August 12, at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was...

OPINION: Paradoxes of freedom or lack of thereof (I)

Aaron Swartz
ON PUSSY RIOT, AARON SWARTZ, EDWARD SNOWDEN, MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, SOVIET UNION, RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES In the...

Martin Sharp, icon artist from 60´s generation, died aged 71

Martin Sharp
The artist, filmmaker, designer and cartoonist Martin Sharp (Sidney 1942-2013) died on Sunday night at Wirian, his home...

Munich's best wurst, Rotkreuzplatz

Looking west across Rotkreuzplatz
Wurst = sausage Würstl = sausages, and is also the diminutive. Würstl Stand is a 'little sausages stand' I, like about...

Bonobo and the music

Bonobo lights up Tollwood's Musik Arena, photo Andreas Gerrit Müller
Just before the Bonobo concert I was asked the question "how is it going to be... his music is so chilled". I considered...

Eating Fish Keeps You Healthy

There are certain seafoods that will keep you healthy for many years to come. According to a new study, fish are among the...

Meet Fred - I think I might be a puppet

Welcome to the show and meet Fred who is a simple but curious and very lively canvas puppet who aims to lead a normal...
Munich Zoo Meercats

The Meerkats are back in Town

Munich Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn) proudly presents their new inhabitants - three male and one female meerkat that moved in...
Munich sledging top 10 places

Top 10 Sledging Hills for Kids in Munich

If you're looking for a sledging opportunity in Munich where you can easily take your kids without much fuss, here are...

How to have fun playing online?

In recent years, technology has become a part of our lives and, for this reason, it is important to emphasize that many...
Tollwood 2017

Tollwood Summer Festival 2017

From the 21st of June to the 16th of July, Olympiapark South in Munich hosts this year's Tollwood Summer Festival. For the...
fruehlingsfest Muenchen

Frühlingsfest (spring festival) 21.04.2017 - 07.05.2017 Theresienwiese

The 53rd "Mini-Wiesn" is currently taking place at the Theresienwiese München, providing young and grown-up visitors with...
Auer Dult

Auer Dult Spring Fair

First mentioned in 1310, the Auer Dult has a long history as a church feast and traditional market in Munich. With around...

Marina von Stroganoff - Meet the Diva of the 21st Century

Marina von Stroganoff, German singer, artist and actress, presented an open stage concert, just before Christmas, on the...

Munich phones home for foreign professionals

Munich has long been one of the most prosperous cities in all of Europe. Thousands of international companies have offices...
Celebrate Oktoberfest with Karneval Universe

Oktoberfest Season Is Here

Munich's 183rd Ooktoberfest is fast approaching and many festival goers will be turning their attention to how best to...

An evening of toreros, bulls and Harlequins

Gisa Michelón: a dancer who is always moving on, who doesn´t stand still and every time she goes on stage she has...

Unforgettable Sound of Primavera 2016

The indie festival Primavera Sound opened up its great lineup on 1st June for the 16th time with Britpop legend Suede who...

Get to know Europe's best festivals - Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona

Summer & sun combined with music & beach - all this is Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival which is taking place...
Cypress Hill in Munich

Insane in da membrane - Cypress Hill in Munich (14th July)

Guess what!? Cypress Hill was in Munich and tried to rock Tollwood! B-Real, Sen Dog, drummer and percussionist Bobo + DJ...
Mason Smith stepping in with a left cross

TSV1860 win Anglo-German Boxing Tournament but fans the real winners

When it comes to football, Munich is a city of red and blue. The red half of the city follow the mighty Bayern Munich and...
Ana Quiroga, Argentine writer

Literature: The Dead Boy, Short Stories by Ana Quiroga

Published in late 2014 by the publishing house Ediciones Fuera del Rio (Buenos Aires, Argentina), came into our hands the...
Nneka brings Nigeria to Munich

Nneka, the voice of Nigeria

Nneka's soul is heavy and her music intriguing. The Nigerian-born and Hamburg-based artist spends 300 days a year on tour,...
Japanese fashion is a world unto itself

Walk like a Japanese - from Kimono to Harajuku

"I don't want to go to Heaven. I want to be a Harajuku girl". This is what John Galliano would say once he visited Tokyo's...
Fink in Munich

Fink, sort of a revolution

Fink is a musician, relatively unknown and yet quite famous. After more than two years since his last gig in Munich, he...
Finding Fela

Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria

When Nigeria is mentioned in Western media, usually the names of Ebola virus or Boko Haram fundamentalist group are the...
The Ballet Russes at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich

The Ballet Russes at Bayerische Staatsoper

The Ballet ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper is performing The Ballet Russe. At the latest performance on 28 th...
Electric Bike: Sunstar

Electric bicycles pedal for a sustainable future

  The global market for electric bicycles (e-bicycles) continues to expand with the advent of new technology...
Micaela Schäfer leads the naked zombie apocalypse

Start Celebrating Halloween with the help of Micaela Schäfer and Horror-Shop!

With Halloween just around the corner, Munich's own Horror-Shop has just the event to get you in to the spooky spirit....
Wirtshaus am Bavariapark's beer garden

Oktoberfest alternative, with class

Want all the thrills of the Oktoberfest without the over-crowding and extortionate beer prices?  Then you need to find...
SweetCafe playing at Munich streets

SweetCafe music on the streets

While you walk along the streets of Munich, maybe you have seen street musicians playing on a corner, or in some of the...

New wave jeans comes from oceanic plastic trash

Recycled plastic take from the oceans is being used to make demin fabrics and turn them a fashionable product. G-Star is...
Karneval Universe - Your One Stop Karneval Shop

Karneval Universe - Your One Stop Karneval Shop

For many Münchners, the Fasching season comes just once a year, starting in November and culminating in a huge series of...
Munich's Horror Shop - terror on tap!

It's Halloween 365 days a year with Munich's Horror-Shop

Whether you are looking to throw a traditional Halloween party with pumpkins and ghouls aplenty, or if you want to plan a...
Jimmy Eat World hits the spot

Jimmy Eat World

Jimmy Eat World has turned 20 this year. That fact kind of explained the mixed audience gathered in Muffathalle on August...
Stefan Suchanek

Sales Psychology - a Saturday morning walk

The setting: Stefan Suchanek - charismatic architect, interior designer, moderator, musician, photographer; a sunny...
Literature Nobel Prize 1982, Gabriel García Marquez, died at 87

García Márquez, master of magical realism and Nobel winner, dies aged 87

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", died on Thursday at his home...
Arrivederci Leopolis by George Perantoni

Arrivederci Leopolis, the Lions War - The Great War is not yet over

Beginning his story Arrivederci Leopolis, The Lion´s War on September 11, 2001, with the Twin Towers attack, George...
Martin Sixsmith and Philomena Lee as played by Steve Coogan and Judi Dench on Stephen Frears film Philomena

Philomena - Film Review

Judi Dunch is exhilirating to watch as Philomena. And Steve Coogan has taken on more of a serious role, defining him as an...
Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello: Gypsy punks as therapy against bad mood

 You cannot stop smiling or full heartedly laughing with joy when you see Gogol Bordello, when you hear their music! They...
Zero Freitas, 62, over his vinyl records collection at his Sao Paulo warehouse

Musical Emporium; the biggest Vinyl Records Collector

Zero Freitas, a bus magnate from Sao Paulo, Brazil, could be the individual owner of the biggest vinyl records collection...

Robin Williams dies at 63

Robin Williams, the comedian and Academy Award-winning actor, died on Monday at his home in Tiburon, California, north of...
Finally, the chance to meet singles in Munich

Dating in Munich

They say that Munich is the singles capital of Germany, yet the experience of most is that it is actually quite difficult...
Singer Skye Edwards visiting from another world, photo Simon Bayne

Morcheeba in Munich - a swan-like star with a velvet voice

"Do you like my outfit?" Cheering agreement! "What about these shoes? - Ridiculous, aren't they?" Laughter and more...
Fémina is presenting this week at Berlin music bars

Fémina, new music from far south hits Berlin

Fémina is a rap folk fusion band from San Martín de los Andes, a little village in South Patagonia, Argentina that is...