Time for Ethical Elegance

How does one choose the perfect gift, which also satisfies the usually contraditory desire to shop ethically?  Not an easy queston to answer, especially if you are looking for something special which is both stylish and of high quality.  Recently, a Danish company called Nordgreen is aiming to...
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Adam and Eve - by Masaaki Hasegawa

This project aims to improve the social status of LGBT, especially female couples in the world, as many campaigns and...

Alex Katz Art Exhibition at the Brandhorst Museum

Born in 1927, Alex Katz is one of the most accomplished and influential American painters of the past fifty years, and he...

The Meerkats are back in Town

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

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...

Frühlingsfest (spring festival) 21.04.2017 - 07.05.2017 Theresienwiese

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

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...

Oktoberfest Season Is Here

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

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...

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

Cypress Hill in Munich
Guess what!? Cypress Hill was in Munich and tried to rock Tollwood! B-Real, Sen Dog, drummer and percussionist Bobo + DJ...

Literature: The Dead Boy, Short Stories by Ana Quiroga

Ana Quiroga, Argentine writer
Published in late 2014 by the publishing house Ediciones Fuera del Rio (Buenos Aires, Argentina), came into our hands the...

Walk like a Japanese - from Kimono to Harajuku

Japanese fashion is a world unto itself
"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...

Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria

Finding Fela
When Nigeria is mentioned in Western media, usually the names of Ebola virus or Boko Haram fundamentalist group are the...

Electric bicycles pedal for a sustainable future

Electric Bike: Sunstar
  The global market for electric bicycles (e-bicycles) continues to expand with the advent of new technology...

Oktoberfest alternative, with class

Wirtshaus am Bavariapark's beer garden
Want all the thrills of the Oktoberfest without the over-crowding and extortionate beer prices?  Then you need to find...

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...

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

Munich's Horror Shop - terror on tap!
Whether you are looking to throw a traditional Halloween party with pumpkins and ghouls aplenty, or if you want to plan a...

Sales Psychology - a Saturday morning walk

Stefan Suchanek
The setting: Stefan Suchanek - charismatic architect, interior designer, moderator, musician, photographer; a sunny...

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

Arrivederci Leopolis by George Perantoni
Beginning his story Arrivederci Leopolis, The Lion´s War on September 11, 2001, with the Twin Towers attack, George...

Gogol Bordello: Gypsy punks as therapy against bad mood

Gogol Bordello
 You cannot stop smiling or full heartedly laughing with joy when you see Gogol Bordello, when you hear their music! They...

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...

Three days awake at Southside

Around 60,000 music enthusiasts gathered during the weekend of 21.06.19 - 23.06.19, celebrating their stars, life and...

Irish man seeks German lady after chance encounter

The following story relates to a chance encounter at Dublin Airport on Saturday night, April 27th.  It concerns an Irish...

Artist showcases Europe's largest calligraphy work

Video: Masaaki Hasegawa at the Museo Zapadores in Madrid (source: Mask Movement) As part of his project "Connect People...

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...
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...
Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters meet Lollapalooza Berlin

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

Biergarten Season Finally Arrives

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
PWN Munich entrepreneurship program

The Professional's Women's Network Launches Entrepreneurship Program

Leading up to this year's International Women's Day, the Professional Women's Network (PWN Munich) is proud to announce...
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...
Short Story and Digital Art by Mariano Aja

Ilustrated Tale: A signal

 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...
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,...
Macy Gray at Muffathalle, Munich

Macy Gray and How Life Is

Macy Gray is quite unconventional, and for those who didn't go further than her one hit wonder "I try", the concert on...
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...
Steel exterior, but soft inside

The Science Behind Superman

While Marvel has taken the lead in the superhero film industry, DC is now preparing a major effort to catch up. Last...
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...
Biking through Europe will be easier

Biking through Europe, the EuroVelo way

One of the sustainable tourism projects which is more interesting and exciting in recent times has already born, the...
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....
AC DC rythmn guitarist Malcom Young

AC DC keeps on, Malcom Young admitted for dementia

Malcom Young who took a break from the hard blues rock band AC DC, earlier this year, due to an unspecified illnes, has...
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...
Yusuf Islam will tour North America

Cat Stevens on the road again

Cat Stevens (actually Yusuf Islam) is back on the road. The singer announced on Monday that he would make a six-city...
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...
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...
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...
Laureen Bacall (1924-2014)

Lauren Bacall: Her beauty will never die

Lauren Baccall died at 89, after suffering a massive stroke on August 12, at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was...
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...
Aaron Swartz

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

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

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

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

Munich's best wurst, Rotkreuzplatz

Wurst = sausage Würstl = sausages, and is also the diminutive. Würstl Stand is a 'little sausages stand' I, like about...
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...
Bonobo lights up Tollwood's Musik Arena, photo Andreas Gerrit Müller

Bonobo and the music

Just before the Bonobo concert I was asked the question "how is it going to be... his music is so chilled". I considered...