…bridge. If this keeps going, we’ll soon be hiring structural engineers to check bridge integrity.. I’m playing it safe. I’m taking the ferry….
Feridun Zaimoglu is a 50 year old German author of Turkish heritage and the recipient of the 2015 Mainzer Stadtschreiber literature prize. Which is €12,500 donated by the city of…
…the fantastic costumes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream” the other evening
They could have organised the meteorological side of things a bit better and Ms jb could have not been suffering from TFA (Totally F@#&ed Ankle) Syndrome, but apart from that,…
One of Shakespeare’s most famous stage directions: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” “The Winter’s Tale” as performed by Zettels Theater in the Geromont vineyard’s courtyard the other week Antigonus. Come,…
He’s back, if only in spirit, having fallen off the perch in 2011… A new James Rizzi (I always thought that the pronunciation would be italianate, but it’s not –…
…marks the spot. The Kulturufer (Culture Foreshore) in NQM Bingen is a highly successful conversion from a dire railway shunting yard to the stunning location for the State Horticultural Show…
“Public viewing” is one of those Denglisch words that baffle native English speakers. (We think it means the laying out a corpse for mourners to traipse past…) Along with (the…
Ancient and modern in Jürgen Hofmann’s cellar in Appenheim
Wilhelm Holzamer, novelist, librarian to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Paris correspondent for a number of German newspapers, Nieder-Olmer gets his own monument.
And then there are the ubiquitous hospital romance novelettes, Dr. Norden being merely one in a field of n+1, but with 850 titles and sales figures of 180 million, they…
If you read these rags, you’ll be exposed to some interesting [sic] “stuff”: To whit: Every celebrity who’s married is having it off with another celebrity. Every celebrity who isn’t…
..er..asphalt instruments?
….where you sit.
…they should win it” said the theatre critic in the Allgemeine Zeitung. Actor Matthias Brandt is the youngest son of Willy Brandt, a former German chancellor instrumental in reconciling West…
Lamps at the Frankfurter Hof
I’ve been helping organise the Alzey Pottery Market for the past few years – set up their website, got some decent content from the potters (a profile so that people…
Just what the doctor ordered – a pop-up bar selling decent beer. Leonidas Lazaridis und Philip Vogel, design students at the University for Applied Sciences in Mainz came up with…
…about the space blanket suit, though. Mind you, if you’ve been hitting the boards for 50 years, you’re probably entitled to wear anything you want. Must be a bugger to…
Martin Kijaszek is a successful graphic designer. He’s also Billy Crash, a singer of blues, rock and country in the local Rhoihessisch dialect. He marked his 50th stage anniversary with…
Oh. No curtain. Never mind…. Billy Crash @ Frankfurter Hof, Mainz
…except bad legislation” Kinky Friedman, the original “Texas Jewboy”, musician, author, politician (ran for Governor in Texas in 2006 – got 13% in a 6 candidate race – and running…
Not a spare chair to be found at the Playhouse Café and Theatre in Mapua last night for The Eastern’s gig, Except – being Mapua which is “country” (as in…
A cherub (or is it a seraph…?) serenading from a safe height at the Gutenberg Museum
The local (low-tech..) version of BookCrossing, which involves Taking a book you’ve finished reading to the tram stop in Bretzenheim Putting it in the glass=fronted (and backed) cabinet Choosing one…
Rocked on up to “La Gallerie” the other day, a very fine Italian restaurant in the Gaustrasse shadowed by St Stephan’s church and nodded to the folks at the adjoining…
…an encore. New Year’s concert in the cathedral yesterday evening, with the brass ensemble and organist playing Bach, Frescobaldi, Grieg et al. Quite excellent. So excellent, in fact, that they…
Well, it never RAINS there, for a start, but even if anyone DARED to step on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they’d have someone out there with…
genealogy research takes you. The new (1881) Jewish cemetery in Mainz-Zahlbach.
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