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ROGUE GALLERIES – HEISTS THAT SHOOK THE ART WORLD
Europe Diplomatic Magazine
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June 5, 2025
AI generated image The Museum of Ennigaldi-Nanna, dating back to around 530 BC, is considered the world’s first known museum. Located in Ur (modern-day Iraq), it was was established by Princess Ennigaldi, the daughter of the Babylonian King...
Vancouver show hopes to bridge the worlds of symphony and video games
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 8, 2025
An upcoming Vancouver concert will feature a symphony orchestra performing music from some of the world's most popular video games — and the orchestra's conductor wants to make new fans of symphonic music in the process. Game On! will see the...
Selfhelp hosts Holocaust Survivor Day event in Forest Hills with music, dancing and reflection
QNS - New York
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June 5, 2025
Selfhelp’s Coffee House honors Holocaust survivors with music and dignity. Photo by Diana Rachnaev from Assemblymember Rozic’s office Holocaust survivors from across Queens gathered for a “Coffee House” celebration hosted by Selfhelp Community...
Germany's Friedrich Merz goes to Washington
Deutsche Welle
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June 4, 2025
Friedrich Merz and Donald Trump have already exchanged private cell phone numbers and they are on a first-name basis, but aside from a brief encounter in New York years ago, this Thursday will be the first time that the two leaders meet. The new...
German sinologist amazed by splendid Dunhuang culture
People's Daily Online
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LANZHOU, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Known for his deep engagement with Chinese literature, German sinologist Martin Woesler recently made his first visit to the ancient Silk Road hub of Dunhuang in northwest China's Gansu Province, where he was captivated...
Beatrix Von Storch on German Chancellor’s Visit: “Merz Has to Show his True Colors in Washington”
The Gateway Pundit
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June 5, 2025
As President Trump is set to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz today in the Oval Office, Alternative for Germany (AfD) Bundestag vice-chair Beatrix von Storch gave a speech hailing the rise of MAGA and the conservative, Christian “New...
New 36% efficient micro-CPV breakthrough from Germany boosts solar power, slashes costs
Interesting Engineering - New York
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June 5, 2025
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) have achieved a significant breakthrough in solar technology, developing a micro-concentrator photovoltaic (micro-CPV) module that boasts 36% efficiency using...
Alien Weaponry Release “Taniwha” Music Video Featuring Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe
MetalSucks
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June 5, 2025
A couple months after the release of their album Te Rā and the collaborative track “Taniwha” that they put together with Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe, New Zealand’s Alien Weaponry released a music video for that very track today. Speaking of the...
‘I Say Potato’ Celebrates Art of the Tuber in Bridgehampton
Dan’s Papers - New York
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June 5, 2025
Art on view in “I Say Potato” at the Bridgehampton Museum The newly christened Bridgehampton Museum is kicking off summer with I Say Potato, an art exhibition celebrating the Hamptons’ long tradition of potato farming. According to the museum, the...
Germany's Max Planck society emerges as magnet for US researchers amid Trump-era turmoil
The Times of India
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Germany’s Max Planck Society has recorded a dramatic threefold increase in applications from the United States, reflecting growing unease among American scientists over the future of research under President Donald Trump’s administration. The...
The Trailer is Here for Disney+’s Presentation of the "Frozen" Broadway Musical
Laughing Place
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June 5, 2025
Disney+ has debuted the trailer for Disney’s Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical, a proshot filmed version of the stage musical based on the blockbuster animated film. What’s Happening: The musical features a book by the film’s screenwriter and...
Trump tempers reality TV strategy in Oval Office meeting with German chancellor
The Gazette - Colorado
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President Donald Trump took a markedly different approach to his Thursday bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz compared to recent meetings with other foreign leaders. Last month, Trump derailed the visit from South African...
Musical Mischief
Good Times - California
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June 4, 2025
Levitating with clever ideas, Opera Project won us over in April with a cabaret version of Bach’s saucy Coffee Cantata, performed by three singers and a trio of instrumentalists in the intimate (i.e., small) space of the Mariposa Coffee Cafe....
What’s stopping family housing development? Part II: It’s culture, not just cost
Real Estate News Exchange (RENX)
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In Part I of this two-part series, I outlined how development charges discourage the construction of family-sized units. But the barriers go beyond economics. In Canada and much of North America, it’s culture that keeps families out of apartments....
There's more to Korean music than K-Pop. Young composers show how in L.A. Phil's Seoul Festival
Los Angeles Times
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June 5, 2025
K-pop. Oscar-celebrated cinema. Samsung in the living room. Political urgency in the press. However prominent Korean culture seems to be, there is surprising lack of coverage of the classical scene at large. Already at 21, Yunchan Lim, winner of...
Rita Ora puts on a VERY racy display as she strips to her bra and lacy blue hotpants to perform at World Club Dome Festival in Frankfurt
Daily Mail
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June 8, 2025
Rita Ora left little to the imagination as she performed at the World Club Dome Festival on Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany. The singer, 34, put on a high-octane performance with a slew of scantily clad-backing dancers for the excited crowd. Taking...
The tortuous process of finding a name for your band
Global News
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June 8, 2025
In 2007, a couple of listeners asked me if I would do another Ongoing History of New Music program on the origins of band names. I’d done a few in the past, but I was happy to accommodate. This time, however, I was struck with a question: What do...
INFOTEP promotes environmental culture and sustainability in San Juan de la Maguana
Dominican Today
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San Juan de la Maguana, DR.- INFOTEP celebrated World Environment Day in San Juan de la Maguana with a waste management panel aimed at fostering sustainability and circular economy practices. Held at the institution’s Southern Satellite Office,...
A Naked Astronomer and a Twice-Clothed Pope: Trap Door’s Galileo Thrills
Chicago Maroon - Illinois
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June 8, 2025
In Bucktown, Trap Door Theatre’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo is brave, chaotic, and full of spectacle. Brecht’s 1938 play (with the full name Life of Galileo), written originally in German and translated into English by Charles...
How a postwar German literary classic helped eclipse painter Emil Nolde’s relationship to Nazism
The Conversation
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June 5, 2025
Paintings by German artist Emil Nolde (1867-1956) were recently on display at the Musée Picasso in Paris as part of an exhibition on what the Nazis classified as “degenerate art”. At first glance, his works fit perfectly, but recent research shows...