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The Science Behind Superman

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

While Marvel has taken the lead in the superhero film industry, DC is now preparing a major effort to catch up. Last month, IGN posted a summary of the various cinematic projects in the pipeline from DC and their studio collaborators. It's safe to say that the coming films include a lot of exciting ideas: Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, Justice League, and more. Curiously enough, it seems like 2013 film Man Of Steel sparked all the ideas.

Despite the fact that Superman may represent the biggest...

Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

When Nigeria is mentioned in Western media, usually the names of Ebola virus or Boko Haram fundamentalist group are the first to surface on headlines. Hence, few of us know about the history of this West African country, its struggle towards independence, its suffering during the civil war that followed until it has found its safe passage toward democracy and was ranked this year to have the strongest economy in the African continent.
In the art scene, the Nigerian film industry is known as...

The Ballet Russes at Bayerische Staatsoper

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The Ballet ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper is performing The Ballet Russe. At the latest performance on 28 th october the Staatsoper was fully booked out. The audience loved the performance who brought them back to the early 19th century. At that time Serge Diaghilew gathered the best dancers of Russia and organized tours across Europe.

After their triumphant first season in Paris in 1909, the Ballets Russes quickly took the world by storm. At the same time as this unique group made its...

Biking through Europe, the EuroVelo way

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

One of the sustainable tourism projects which is more interesting and exciting in recent times has already born, the EuroVelo. The idea is that by 2020, Europe will have a large network of 14 long-distance cycle routes, linking the entire Continent with 70,000 km of routes for bikes. Ever dreamed of travelling across an entire continent on your own steam? Thanks to EuroVelo, a project of the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF), cycling across Europe is not only possible, but safe, attractive...

Electric bicycles pedal for a sustainable future

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

  The global market for electric bicycles (e-bicycles) continues to expand with the advent of new technology developments and the increasing affordability and availability of product offerings. Numerous countries in Western Europe and Asia Pacific have developed mature markets due to strong commuter cultures that utilize e-bicycles for transportation purposes. Conversely, e-bicycles still represent an emerging market in North America, as they have largely been treated as a novel type of...

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

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

With Halloween just around the corner, Munich's own Horror-Shop has just the event to get you in to the spooky spirit. When the bewitching season is upon us, Horror-Shop are known for their Halloween celebrations, with this year carrying on the trend. Top German model and DJ Micaela Schäfer will take a trip this weekend to the Horror-Shop Superstore in Landsham, just outside Munich, where she will be appearing as a naked zombie for Horror-Shop's Halloween photo shoot. Micaela will also be...

AC DC keeps on, Malcom Young admitted for dementia

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Malcom Young who took a break from the hard blues rock band AC DC, earlier this year, due to an unspecified illnes, has been admitted to a specialist clinic. Australian guitarist Malcom Young, who created AC DC with his brother Angus back in 1973, has been hospitalized in a full 
day caring nursing facility specializing in dementia in Sydney. Relatives tell the Sydney Morning Herald that "if you leave the room where Malcon is, and you come back five minutes later, he wouldn´t remember who...

Oktoberfest alternative, with class

September 27, 2025 • 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

September 27, 2025 • 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

September 27, 2025 • 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

September 27, 2025 • 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

September 27, 2025 • 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...

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Christoph Scheuerecker: ,,Ereignis: Erzählung"

Join us at the Kunstraum in der Au for the exhibition titled ,,Ereignis: Erzählung" by Christoph Scheuerecker, focusing on the captivating world of bees. This exhibition invites visitors to explore the intricate relationship between bees and their environment through various artistic expressions,...

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