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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...

Celebrate Oktoberfest with Karneval Universe

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

With Munich's traditional beerfest now less than two weeks away, many festival goers will be turning their attention to how best to prepare for the world famous Oktoberfest celebrations.

Lasting for 16 days and attracting around six million visitors annually, Oktoberfest is the biggest festival you can find. This year, the festival will kick in to full swing once the clock strikes 12pm on Saturday 20th September and Christian Ude, the mayor of Munich, taps the first beer barrel, signifying the...

It's Halloween 365 days a year with Munich's Horror-Shop

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Whether you are looking to throw a traditional Halloween party with pumpkins and ghouls aplenty, or if you want to plan a horrifying, gory celebration that is complete with gallons of fake blood, Horror-Shop.com has everything you need to turn your get-together in to the spookiest event of the year!

Through Horror-Shop.com's extensive list of items, transforming a conventional children's party in to a Harry Potter themed extravaganza or a ghostly pirate party has also never been easier.

No...

Jimmy Eat World

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Jimmy Eat World has turned 20 this year. That fact kind of explained the mixed audience gathered in Muffathalle on August 19th in Munich, from grown-up kids in their 40s to youngsters with t shirts "Jimmy Eat World 2011 Tour". The band was formed in Mesa, Arizona, in 1993, as a classic story between pre-school friends - the present frontman and guitarist Jim Adkins and drummer Zach Lind, who joined in with guitarist Tom Linton and bass player Mitch Porter to shout to the world that no matter...

Lauren Bacall: Her beauty will never die

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Lauren Baccall died at 89, after suffering a massive stroke on August 12, at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was borned on 16 September 1924, at Bronx, New York. When she was a school girl, Lauren originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with acting, so she switched gears to head into that field. She had studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York after high school, which enabled her to get her feet wet in some off-Broadway productions.

Once out of...

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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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