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Category Archive: Culture

02 Mar

>Copycats – #720

> Those rascally Brasilians copy everything. Not content just to nick Carnival, they’ve even paved the Copacabana just like the Steingasse here in Mainz. Lacks authenticity, though. Their’s is populated…
2 March, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
26 Feb

>Alohol – #716

> Know a word without “c”? “Alohol” And I tell you what – Mainz went through copious quantities of this stuff on Monday Monday being Rosenmontag – Rose Monday: the…
26 February, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
23 Feb

>What do you want ….#713

> …to make those eyes at me for…..? Emile Ford and the Checkmates – 1959 [Listen] Town’s chock full of places selling Karneval kit. This place is normally an ice…
23 February, 2009 at 12:00 5 Comments
21 Feb

>Talk about iconic…#711

> Carnival AND Ditsch’s pretzels in a single image. Can’t get much hardcore Mainz that that, eh? Talking of icons. Or “Ike and”s Went to see Tina Turner last night…
21 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
16 Feb

>The soundtrack of my childhood – #706

> OK, so this is definitely NQM (Not Quite Mainz) and decidely waaay off track, but it’s too good to just skim past. Jan Liefers is a German actor with…
16 February, 2009 at 09:00 Leave a comment
15 Feb

>Quaint traditions – #705

> On regular occasions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that whole suburbs are being evicted on the same day. Nothing of the kind. It’ll be Sperrmülltag – the inorganic waste…
15 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
14 Feb

>1000 years old. Yeah right… – #704

> Don’t believe a word of it. BITS of the cathedral are 1000 years old – this tower and the matching one on the other side, for instance – but…
14 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
13 Feb

>Rundgang 2 – #703

> This is one of the less WTF installations at Mainz’s Art College – a Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg contraption with an endless film loop projecting a marginally moving image onto…
13 February, 2009 at 16:46 3 Comments
09 Feb

>Rundgang – #699

> Who says advertising doesn’t work? The Art College in Mainz plastered their exceptionally eye-catching poster for their “Rundgang” (“Doing the rounds”) open day all over the city and it…
9 February, 2009 at 09:00 3 Comments
02 Feb

>Get yer millions here..#691

> The queue almost went out of the door and around the block. The state lottery’s jackpot was up to €35/$50 million/£40 million/NZ¢100 million and the place went mad. Someone…
2 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
20 Jan

>The empty throne – #679

> Local politics around here are real hoot. This is the pedestal on which Famous Son Johnannes (not me – Gutenberg) normally resides. JG’s off for some well-deserved R&R and…
20 January, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
10 Jan

>If I lived in Darmstadt…#669

> … I could tell you about the Mathildenhöhe, an artists’ colony built in a park above the city at the turn of the last century at the height of…
10 January, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
07 Jan

>The Mark of the Beast – #666

> Don’t – whatever you do – go to markbeast.com. It’ll scare the living daylights out of you. But given that this is Post #666, I figured I couldn’t let…
7 January, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
06 Jan

>"My New Year’s Resolution for 2009" he said…..#665

> …”is to give up smoking.” [Stage whisper: “Just as soon as I’ve finished these 3 cartons…”] And – for some serious resolutionisms  – check out young Helen’s Resolution Round-Up…
6 January, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
05 Jan

>"Despondency……#664

> ….is futile” Thus spake Beate Thiesmayer, artiste extraordinaire.
5 January, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
04 Jan

>For free – reloaded – #663

> Almost, anyway. Chris Paulson‘s a German-based American folk-singer. Pretty good, too. Good enough to garner regular invites back to the Unterhaus, the local subterranean alternative cultural Mecca, anyway He…
4 January, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
29 Dec

>What a bind – #657

> If you’re a bookbinder, you’re treading on hallowed soil in Mainz, given that Johannes Gutenberg’s birthplace is just around the corner. Can’t get much closer to the source of…
29 December, 2008 at 12:00 1 Comment
27 Dec

>For free (sort of..) – #655

> I slept last night in a good hotelI went shopping today for jewelsThe wind rushed around in the dirty townAnd the children let out from the schoolsI was standing…
27 December, 2008 at 12:00 3 Comments
21 Dec

>Saturday morning treat – #649

> Living in Mainz can be really quite cool. In the run-up to Christmas, the cathedral hosts a series of midday concerts each Saturday – 30 minutes of choral and…
21 December, 2008 at 12:00 4 Comments
10 Nov

>Twins – #608

> Not really. Pierre et Liliane Gautard from Quemigny sur Seine were here the other week at the Burgundy market in Mainz. Mainz is twinned with every whatsit and his…
10 November, 2008 at 12:00 Leave a comment
05 Nov

>Flossy in the Fountain – #603

> I’m beginning to think I’m just following Helen around taking photos of the same things….oh well, never mind. Detail from the Fastnachtbrunnen (Carnival Fountain) on the Schillerplatz
5 November, 2008 at 12:00 2 Comments
01 Nov

>November Theme Day: Books #599

> Bookshops aren’t about books. They’re about people. Borders isn’t a real bookshop as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the “mortar” bit in the “Clicks and Mortar” business model.…
1 November, 2008 at 12:00 7 Comments
25 Oct

>Gone, but not forgotten – #592

> And yet another brewery that hung up its hops,as it were. Enough to make a geriatric adolescent cry…
25 October, 2008 at 11:00 2 Comments
18 Oct

>Before and after II – #585

> “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” Or a pitbull. Or a hockey mom. Whatever. Makeup artists from the Staatstheater in Mainz showing their…
18 October, 2008 at 11:00 2 Comments
13 Oct

The Case of the Disappearing Breweries – #580

One of the (few) things wrong with Mainz is the dire lack of breweries. There’s the Eisgrub. And that’s it. It’s not as if there didn’t USED to be other…
13 October, 2008 at 11:00 3 Comments
04 Oct

>An old chestnut – not! – #571

> My mate John “Methuselah” Whatley is a man of great age (self-proclaimed) and wit (demonstrated). “If I could get my wife to pick up that chestnut” he said ”…
4 October, 2008 at 11:00 2 Comments
26 Sep

>Skinny dipping – #563

> NQM (Not Quite Mainz) but not too far out of town. Best advertising for a plumbing outfit I’ve seen. And before anyone asks:  No, it’s not……
26 September, 2008 at 11:00 3 Comments
24 Sep

>These books… #561

> …are made for reading… Nida Kilian – being somewhat vertically challenged – was standing on a chair, sorting some books on one of the top shelves in “Shakespeare &…
24 September, 2008 at 11:00 2 Comments
23 Sep

>Happy Birthday to you… – #560

  Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, dear window, Happy Birthday to you The first of Marc Chagall’s windows was installed and consecrated in the Stephanskirche at the…
23 September, 2008 at 11:00 6 Comments
06 Sep

>The Night of the Open Churches – #543

> What an excellent evening. Kick-off was in St Quintins, with musicians representing 4 continents – a didgeridoo-er especially for Helen, an Central Asian throat-singer on byzaanchy, an African drummer…
6 September, 2008 at 11:00 3 Comments
04 Sep

>Could be good – #541

> Around here, churches are locked most of the time. Except the big ones and even some of THEM close down for lunch. {Shakes his head, muttering “Close down for…
4 September, 2008 at 10:18 9 Comments