On March 6, 2015 Brazil’s Supreme Court has given the green light to federal prosecutors to investigate 49 people,...

Correction added on April 16, 2015 at 20:33 CET: The Social Democrats lost indeed 4 seats compared with 2011, but now control...

Review, history, anecdotes and design of the palace at avenue Montaigne In February 2015, I finally had the chance to rediscover the renovated and enlarged Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris....

Le Relais Plaza is the famous brasserie at the elegant Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, situated at 25, avenue Montaigne. Constant...

Christophe Moret has rightly been awarded a second Michelin star (Added on February 1, 2016 at 17:54 CET). Biography of Christophe Moret The executive chef at Shangri-La hotel Paris,...

Israeli politics have always been volatile. New parties emerge, existing parties merge, politicians change parties and alliances. When Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu sacked his finance...

The exhibition Canaletto: Bernardo Bellotto paints Europe at Alte Pinakothek in Munich from October 17, 2014 until January 18,...

The early life of William Smokey Robinson The Motown record label owes its success to many people. The first to come to my mind are founder Berry Gordy and singer, songwriter, record...

The most important appointment in the new, largely unchanged, second government Valls, is the one of Emmanuel Macron as France’s new Minister of the Economy, the Industry and the...

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York City, on September 16, 1924. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Poland, her mother a Jewish immigrant from Romania. She...

Nicola Benedetti was born on July 19, 1987. She grew up in the small Scottish town West Kilbride. She has a brother and a sister. Both her parents are Italian born, but moved to Scotland as...

At the end of 2008 and in early 2009, Israel already fought a war against Hamas. Only a regime change in the Gaza strip would have “justified” such a large scale operation which caused...

Today, July 7, 2014, the Israeli Foreign Minister and Beitenu party leader, Avigdor Lieberman, announced at a press conference...

Roth Time – the retrospective at MoMA QNS and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Dieter Roth (1930-1998) is an artist’s artist. In this, in the 20th century, he is probably only...

On July 14, 1913 the elegant Polonia Palace Hotel opened it’s doors. It remains until today one of Warsaw’s few traditional luxury hotels. Founded by Count Konstanty...

Since January 2015, Christophe Moret is the new executive chef at Shangri-La hotel Paris, notably responsible for the restaurants...

Together with London, the French capital offers the greatest range of luxury hotels in Europe. The elegant Shangri-La hotel Paris is among the newest and the best. Palais Iéna : a building...

The only sour note regarding Madeira comes from the political side. Alberto João Jardim (*1943) has dominated the island’s...

In March 2006, I stayed at the elegant InterContinental Warsaw. I remember it vividly because the fabulous 1048 m2 RiverView Wellness Center on the 43rd and 44th floor, which offers with...

The Vienna Secession movement and of course the famous Wiener Werkstätte, co-founded with Josef Hoffmann, are unthinkable without Koloman Moser (1868-1918). He was multitalented man who...