The “Global Power City Index”, a ranking of 35 of the world’s top cities researched by the Institute for Urban Strategies at The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo rates Berlin in 10th place – behind the top 3 cities of Zurich, Copenhagen and Tokio.
Vancouver, Vienna, and Melbourne are the ‘best’ cities in the world to live in and to visit according to [...] Continue Reading…
Donnerstag, den 29.10.09 um 20.30h
Lieder- und Arienabend mit der wunderbaren und nicht minder schönen israelischen Sopranistin Dana Marbach begleitet von Dan Deutsch am Flügel
Samstag, dem 31.10. 09 um 20.30h
Vom bekanntesten Klaviertrio some handsome hands ein sechshändiges mit Sicherheit sehr illustres Konzert
Weitere Informationen finden sich auf dem angehängten Flyer und unter
www.somehandsomehands.de
Und noch etwas Erfreuliches gilt es zu berichten: die unvergleichliche Maria
Masycheva, deren Konzerte [...] Continue Reading…
Yet again the flagship City Palace/Stadtschoss project in the centre of Berlin is again the focus of finger pointing and usual blame-game between ministries and local, state and federal goverments.
To be built on the site of the former East German Palast der Republik – which had a lot of local support against its being bulldozed – the Stadtschloss is to be the [...] Continue Reading…
Three weeks of protracted negotiations between the CDU conservative party of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the liberal Free Democrats ended today with all the parties signing a coalition deal emphasizing tax cuts.
The moderate liberal-conservative coalition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats: the very model of a modern centrist democracy, agreed on €24bn of tax cuts in an attempt to stimulate [...] Continue Reading…
Hertha Berlin Football club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha 92 taking its name from a river steamship called <<Nerthus>> a Teutonic fertility goddess. The present name Hertha was an aberation of this mythological diety.
Would that this diety could visit them today and provide some fertility charms that produce goals and win games!
Hertha today, at this writing, currently bottom of the [...] Continue Reading…
For the first time in Europe, a private art exhibition is being presented, followed by an auction,which is focused specifically on narrating the art historical period of Socialist Realism in the former Soviet Union.
On 6 November BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN – Art of Socialist Realism will open at the Jeschke-Van Vliet in Berlin. This exhibition will display a collection of 300 classics [...] Continue Reading…
With roaring applause, the Berlin Opera public yet again clearly let it be known where their preferences lay.
Berlin opera audiences, as is their wont, rarely just relax and sit on their hands at the end of a performance. They are at either extreme end – of either booing with catcalls [or just booing if they are in a polite mood] or the [...] Continue Reading…
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