Nico Cartosio shares unforeseen Christmas video

Neo-romantic composer Nico Cartosio shares unforeseen Christmas video for his brand new single 'Christmas On The Moon'. The tempestuous plotline and powerful visuals illustrate Cartosio's emotional composition, as tender piano keys guide the vulnerable violin across dramatic swells and subtle...
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Cinnamon Bells and the Golden Stocking

The following is a light-hearted, unprofessional short Christmas story submitted by one of our readers. The challenge was...

Top 10 Sledging Hills for Kids in Munich

Munich sledging top 10 places
If you're looking for a sledging opportunity in Munich where you can easily take your kids without much fuss, here are...

Tollwood Summer Festival 2017

Tollwood 2017
From the 21st of June to the 16th of July, Olympiapark South in Munich hosts this year's Tollwood Summer Festival. For the...

Auer Dult Spring Fair

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

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...

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...

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

Mason Smith stepping in with a left cross
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...

Nneka, the voice of Nigeria

Nneka brings Nigeria to Munich
Nneka's soul is heavy and her music intriguing. The Nigerian-born and Hamburg-based artist spends 300 days a year on tour,...

Fink, sort of a revolution

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

The Ballet Russes at Bayerische Staatsoper

The Ballet Russes at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
The Ballet ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper is performing The Ballet Russe. At the latest performance on 28 th...

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

Micaela Schäfer leads the naked zombie apocalypse
With Halloween just around the corner, Munich's own Horror-Shop has just the event to get you in to the spooky spirit....

SweetCafe music on the streets

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

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...

Jimmy Eat World

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

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

Literature Nobel Prize 1982, Gabriel García Marquez, died at 87
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", died on Thursday at his home...

Philomena - Film Review

Martin Sixsmith and Philomena Lee as played by Steve Coogan and Judi Dench on Stephen Frears film Philomena
Judi Dunch is exhilirating to watch as Philomena. And Steve Coogan has taken on more of a serious role, defining him as an...

Musical Emporium; the biggest Vinyl Records Collector

Zero Freitas, 62, over his vinyl records collection at his Sao Paulo warehouse
Zero Freitas, a bus magnate from Sao Paulo, Brazil, could be the individual owner of the biggest vinyl records collection...

Dating in Munich

Finally, the chance to meet singles in Munich
They say that Munich is the singles capital of Germany, yet the experience of most is that it is actually quite difficult...

Fémina, new music from far south hits Berlin

Fémina is presenting this week at Berlin music bars
Fémina is a rap folk fusion band from San Martín de los Andes, a little village in South Patagonia, Argentina that is...

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 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...
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...

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...
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...
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...

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 - 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...

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...
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...

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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
Stefan Suchanek

Sales Psychology - a Saturday morning walk

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

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...
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...
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...
Bleeching Munich - was it a whitewash?

Bleech Me

Being thirty minutes late for a club concert and when entering finding the club still empty, normally isn't quite a good...

International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival at Croatia

Varazdin is a city in North Croatia, north of Zagreb, whose centre is near Drava River. It is mainly known for its baroque...