The official festival web site is always down at this time. But YouTube is up. Besides The Rolling Stones, Motown legend Stevie Wonder is one of the biggest surprises this year. They […]
Here is the line up for this years Roskilde Festival in Denmark
Compare the current air quality in different European cities
This application lets you see the air quality in different cities for a recent hour, for yesterday and for the past year.
Lisbon’s Stylish Crossroads
In the trendy Bairro Alto neighborhood of Lisbon, Rui Palma, a college student, wears a vintage look with shiny leather boots inspired by the Velvet Underground‘s “Venus in Furs.”
World Cup highlights child prostitution crisis in Brazil
The 2014 World Cup is helping shine a spotlight on Brazil’s child prostitution crisis. CNN’s Shasta Darlington reports.
I case you are wondering where all the young people are…they are on WeChat!
Forget Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Young people are flocking to WeChat, KakaoTalk and LINE!
New Music: Jack White – High Ball Stepper
Jack White will release his new solo album Lazaretto on June 10th via his own Third Man Records and Columbia, and the former White Stripes frontman already has a blistering new cut […]
Happy Birthday, Rachmaninov!
Rachmaninov disliked calling this work a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments were equal. Because of this, it is often referred to as Sonata in G minor for Cello and […]
‘Women conductors? It’s not getting any better, only worse!’
Jorma Panula has been the most successful spotter and trainer of conductors for the past 30 years. His pupils include Esa-Pekka Salonen and at least 20 others who hold international posts. Panula, […]
Have you ever heard of Morocco’s ‘Mule Ladies’ ?
It was 9 a.m., and hundreds of Moroccan women, many of them older, were already at work, bent over and straining, trying to inch up the hill to the border post here. […]
Rare records: The New Year – My Bleeding Wound (1974)
This is a the b-side to a rare 7″ released by 360 Degrees Records in Ohio in 1974. The track was included in a compilation reviewed by The Queitus: Penultimate track ‘My […]