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Oktoberfest alternative, with class

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Want all the thrills of the Oktoberfest without the over-crowding and extortionate beer prices?  Then you need to find Lady Bavaria. If, when at the fest, you can see the massive Bavarian statue (a giant lady with a lion, not easy to either miss nor forget), then you are only a minute away from the Wirtshaus am Bavariapark. This is a wonderful meeting point for young and old alike, with a joyful, festival atmosphere and is the ideal place to experience the Bavarian lifestyle - this is a real...

SweetCafe music on the streets

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

While you walk along the streets of Munich, maybe you have seen street musicians playing on a corner, or in some of the squares around town. One of these street music bands in Munich is SweetCafe, a band with musicians that came to Germany from different Latin American countries.  Thus many people remain unconcerned about them and keep on with their duties, many others, young and old and kids with their families, love to stop and listen to their contagious rythms, and leave them some euros, or...

Cat Stevens on the road again

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Cat Stevens (actually Yusuf Islam) is back on the road. The singer announced on Monday that he would make a six-city concert tour in North America this December, his first series of shows in the USA and Canada since 1976. His conversion to Islam followed, putting his music career on hold for a quarter century.
Stevens, who also is releasing a blues album on 27 October, produced by Rick Rubin and titled Tell 'Em I'm Gone, is using that stage name along with Yusuf, the name he took when he...

New wave jeans comes from oceanic plastic trash

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Recycled plastic take from the oceans is being used to make demin fabrics and turn them a fashionable product. G-Star is transforming ocean plastic into high-performance denim.

Karneval Universe - Your One Stop Karneval Shop

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

For many Münchners, the Fasching season comes just once a year, starting in November and culminating in a huge series of parties in the following March; but with Karneval Universe, the party never stops!

When it comes to the Fasching festivities, Karneval Universe really can be considered THE party giant for the occasion and the only place for you to visit to make the very most of the party season in Munich. With a huge selection of costumes, masks, wigs, make-up, contact lenses and decorations...

Celebrate Oktoberfest with Karneval Universe

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

With Munich's traditional beerfest now less than two weeks away, many festival goers will be turning their attention to how best to prepare for the world famous Oktoberfest celebrations.

Lasting for 16 days and attracting around six million visitors annually, Oktoberfest is the biggest festival you can find. This year, the festival will kick in to full swing once the clock strikes 12pm on Saturday 20th September and Christian Ude, the mayor of Munich, taps the first beer barrel, signifying the...

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

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Whether you are looking to throw a traditional Halloween party with pumpkins and ghouls aplenty, or if you want to plan a horrifying, gory celebration that is complete with gallons of fake blood, Horror-Shop.com has everything you need to turn your get-together in to the spookiest event of the year!

Through Horror-Shop.com's extensive list of items, transforming a conventional children's party in to a Harry Potter themed extravaganza or a ghostly pirate party has also never been easier.

No...

Jimmy Eat World

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Jimmy Eat World has turned 20 this year. That fact kind of explained the mixed audience gathered in Muffathalle on August 19th in Munich, from grown-up kids in their 40s to youngsters with t shirts "Jimmy Eat World 2011 Tour". The band was formed in Mesa, Arizona, in 1993, as a classic story between pre-school friends - the present frontman and guitarist Jim Adkins and drummer Zach Lind, who joined in with guitarist Tom Linton and bass player Mitch Porter to shout to the world that no matter...

Lauren Bacall: Her beauty will never die

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Lauren Baccall died at 89, after suffering a massive stroke on August 12, at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was borned on 16 September 1924, at Bronx, New York. When she was a school girl, Lauren originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with acting, so she switched gears to head into that field. She had studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York after high school, which enabled her to get her feet wet in some off-Broadway productions.

Once out of...

Sales Psychology - a Saturday morning walk

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

The setting: Stefan Suchanek - charismatic architect, interior designer, moderator, musician, photographer; a sunny Saturday in February, Munich´s vibrant Glockenbachviertel. The objective: getting to know more about Stefan´s business "Raumkunst". He advises retail shop owners how to optimize their sales areas in order to influence the client´s perception of it, which can significantly help numbers go up. I wanted to see shops to understand what is done well and what could be optimized. So we...

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

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87. His death was confirmed by his former editor at Random House.
García Márquez, well known by his nickname, Gabo, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. Garcia Marquez said he found inspiration for the novel by drawing on...

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

February 6, 2026 • 12:00 AM

ON PUSSY RIOT, AARON SWARTZ, EDWARD SNOWDEN, MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, SOVIET UNION, RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES In the beginning of this year we mark two unrelated but philosophically connected events: December 2013 amnesty for two members of iconoclastic Russian feminist punk/art collective Pussy Riot and one year anniversary of Aaron Swartz's suicide that occurred on January 11th of 2013 which we marked last Saturday.
It was a strange ending of the year as far as Russia is concerned with...

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