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Akosua Serwaa’s Petition to German Police Surfaces As She Calls for Roman Fada To Be Investigated
Details of Akosua Serwaa’s petition to German police have surfaced online, after she called for a probe into Daddy Lumba’s death In the October 13, 2025, petition, Akosua Serwaa urged the German Federal Criminal Police to investigate alleged...

The Glasgow record label that transformed the UK's DIY music scene
The story of a small DIY label that would shape the Scottish music scene for decades to come. It had a meteoric rise and then a sudden fall, owing to its own incredible success. In the early 1980s, Postcard Records rewrote some of the rules when...

Celebrating 36 great years of the Festival of Arts, Books & Culture
It’s Festival Time! The 36th annual Festival of Arts, Books & Culture will run November 2-15. As always, the Festival brings outstanding authors and entertainers to the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill. Be sure to attend as many events as you can; tickets...
PSAC holds 2nd corporate culture event
Ammon News - The Public Service and Administration Commission (PSAC) on Wednesday held the 2nd event of the Corporate Culture Community in the Public Sector to examine outcomes and explore improvement opportunities. The event, which was organized...

How Tartu’s €100 million culture project lost the plot
The idea of building a €100 million Siuru Centre in the heart of Tartu might be sold as a beacon of culture and progress; in truth, it is a mirage – a monument to ego and excess at a time when Estonia needs neither. Tartu already hosts the...

Florian Krewer Paints the World as He Feels It
You have become known for paintings of men out and about that are wildly colored and psychologically charged. You have a solo exhibition this fall, at the Michael Werner Gallery in New York. What feels new about this work? One painting is about a...

Gaby Wood: At the Fine Art Society
As a boy, the Romanian-born artist Avigdor Arikha spent part of the Second World War in a labour camp in western Ukraine, where he was given a small sketchbook and pencil by a sympathetic soldier. A German-speaking Jew, he had been deported with...

Gramophone's Early Music Award 2025: sacred and secular works from 15th-century Poland
Radiant performances of music rescued from the ravages of war: The Krasiński Codex For a not-very-early music reviewer, a significant recording – around three hours long – containing early 15th-century Marian music might have had the makings of an...

7 of the Coolest German Creatives Show Us How They Style Their Apartments
The Alpha Sling Chair by Pozza is vintage, as is the shower stool that now serves as a side table. Sax recently found the black vase hanging on the wall at a vintage market in Merano, Italy. In the frame above the chair and table there’s a poem by...

Opodo reveals influence of culture on travel bookings
93% of people say they would consider travelling based on books, films or art, with documentary inspiration proving more powerful than any other medium, says new research from Opodo. Olivia Palamountain reports Data from Opodo reveals a...

Mushroom collecting in Germany enjoys a revival
Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes lay beside slimy purple brittlegills and honey-coloured armillaria — and, among...

Rising Painter Eva Helene Pade Captures the Rhythm of Dancing Bodies
Art Portrait of Eva Helene Pade. Photo by Petra Kleis. Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac. Eva Helene Pade, Rød nat (Red night), 2025. © Eva Helene Pade. Photo by Pierre Tanguy. Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul. The...

MAMA 'Mother Nature' Int'l Art Exhibition opens at Azerbaijan Cultural Center in Berlin
On October 14, the MAMA "Mother Nature" International Art Exhibition opened at the Azerbaijan Cultural Center in Berlin. Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, founder and head of the IDEA Public Union Leyla Aliyeva and Arzu Aliyeva...

WKU Music Department hosts recital with guest artists
Swelling French horn and sustaining piano filled the FAC Recital Hall Monday as visiting musicians Johanna Yarbrough and Kevin Chance performed. Yarbrough works at Louisiana State University as a horn professor and has presented recitals and...

Slow Craft, South Of Saigon: The Art Of Cloisonné Enamel Watch Dials
In a nondescript Vietnamese workshop, Philippe Le is reviving the intricate, fire-forged art that is cloisonné enamel dials. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Volume 5 of B.H. Magazine. To get your copy (and access to future...

In ‘Truth & Treason,’ a Teenager Defies Nazi Germany
Director Matt Whitaker’s Truth & Treason arrives in local theaters on the heels of Raoul Peck’s smashing documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5. Two anti-authoritarian films in a row at a time when most of us need a wake-up call. Helmuth Hübener, the...

Row over bringing back military service splits German government
Jessica ParkerBerlin correspondent ShareSave Under the plans, it will be compulsory for men to fill out a questionnaire at the age of 18, but optional for women Plans to re-introduce military service in Germany have been thrown into chaos because...

India vs Germany: German woman reveals what makes life better in India – from punctual trains and 5G connectivity to vegetarian food
A German woman residing in Mumbai recently captured online attention by sharing her perspective on India’s strengths. In her viral Instagram post, titled “Things that are better in India than in Germany,” she highlighted several areas where India...

How a 1943 gathering of Germans may offer a valuable lesson for today
Fascism doesn't necessarily come about because of a military coup d'etat like the overthrow of socialist Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. In many cases, far-right extremists are — unlike Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet — voted into office. In...

5 things to know about The Speed Art Museum's new Cressman Art Park
The Speed Art Museum in Louisville has opened a new three-acre outdoor art park. The Elizabeth P. and Frederick K. Cressman Art Park is free and open daily from dusk until dawn. It features large-scale sculptures, including the return of the...