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11 reasons why Cardiff Music City Festival hits all the right notes
The second annual Cardiff Music City Festival is already underway, but there is still plenty of music to enjoy before the festival concludes on October 18. The two-week celebration sees venues, clubs and surprise locations across the city filled...

LACMA Receives 130 Austrian Expressionist Artworks From the Otto Kallir Family, Including its First Klimt
The Otto Kallir family gifted more than 130 Austrian Expressionist works to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The gift will add the first paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Richard Gerstl to LACMA’s collection. The collection...

BTA Director General Urges Media Cooperation “Without Thinking About Money” at MINDS International Forum
Addressing participants at the 39th MINDS International Media Innovation Conference, which opened earlier Thursday at the Hotel Quirinal Palace in Rome, Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director General Kiril Valchev said: “In the name of real news,...

Ferrari Boss Demands Team Sign Christian Horner as Statement Issued
Ferrari president John Elkann is determined to sign Christian Horner, according to reports, as the team seeks to bounce back from what has been a dismal 2025. Horner is a free agent after being relieved of his duties as CEO and team principal of...

New film tells how music helped a Hoosier Holocaust survivor
A new documentary at the Heartland film festival tells the story of Frank Grunwald, who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps as a young boy. Grunwald grew up in Prague, where he and his family often played and listened to classical music and...

Palou: Zak Brown told me we could make Formula 1 happen
Four-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou told a High Court hearing on Friday that racing in Formula 1 was his dream, but contracts he signed with McLaren were “based on lies and false impressions.” Palou, who won this year’s Indianapolis 500, said in...

Rovanperä quits Rally to focus on path to Formula 1
Toyota’s double World Rally Champion (WRC) Kalle Rovanperä announced that he would leave rallying and switch to circuit racing next year, with Formula 1 and Le Mans in his sights. The 25-year-old Finn is in contention for a third rally title, with...

Scorpion TV to expose For the Money: Three Spectacular Art Fraud Cases at Mipcom
For the Money: Three Spectacular Art Fraud Cases, directed by Stefan Stuckert London-based distributor Scorpion TV is taking five docufilms to Mipcom next week, including For the Money: Three Spectacular Art Fraud Cases. Commissioned by 3sat in...

A musical tribute at the Greek Embassy in Brussels
DIASPORA [AMNA] The Embassy of Greece in Belgium and the Greek Community of Brussels honored composers Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hatzidakis on the 100th anniversary of their birth, along with Austrian composer Udo Jürgens, creator of the iconic...
Entertainment The Guardian Nigerian Modernism review: sacred groves, a shackled king and women with astonishing hair
Subtitled Art and Independence, Nigerian Modernism is a complicated, contrary exhibition, tracing the development of modern art in Nigeria from the period of British colonial rule to the end of the 20th century. Focusing on individual artists and...

Alter Bridge Premiere New Single & Music Video "What Lies Within" From Upcoming New Album
Alter Bridge have unveiled the second single from their forthcoming self-titled eighth studio album. The track, titled “What Lies Within,” arrives alongside an animated music video helmed by J.T. Ibanez (Sevendust, P.O.D.), which you can check out...

Gatecreeper Premiere New Music Video For "Mistaken For Dead"
Band Photo: Arch Enemy (?) Gatecreeper have unveiled a music video for their track “Mistaken For Dead,” which premiered online today, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. Directed by Seth Ponzo, the clip lands just in time for the...

Fitness leader speaks to Kiwanis Club
Austria Goolsby was the guest speaker at last week’s Kiwanis Club of Laurel meeting at the Laurel Country Club. Austria is a purpose-driven fitness leader, educator and health communications professional with a degree in exercise science from the...

10 Greatest Romantic Movies Worth Watching Over and Over
Romantic films are usually written off as unserious cinema. These are meant to be light, fluffy stories that deliver mindless entertainment. However, anyone who has ever been swept away by a great love story knows that the genre offers so much...
Whips to grunts, how game creators use music to evoke the world of Indiana Jones
Pete Ward took his microphones, recording equipment and a bullwhip into a cave in Sweden, taking a crack at capturing something iconic. The audio director at MachineGames was recording the sound effects for Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, the...
Fortune Media and Great Place To Work Name Experian As One Of The ‘100 Best Companies to Work For Europe’ in 2025
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 9, 2025-- Great Place To Work® and Fortune Europe have recognised Experian as one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For™ Europe for 2025. It is the first time Experian has made the list. More than 1.5 million...

Austrian Twins Reunite After 30 Years Due to Hospital Mix-Up
In October this year, after many years of waiting, two Austrian women met for the first time: they were swapped in the delivery room more than three decades ago, and now their story has drawn attention to the responsibility of medical...

‘I was here first, but it’s no longer worth living in’ — Viennese housing complex residents live in fear as migrant families intimidate neighbors
Residents of a municipal housing complex on Franklinstrasse, in Vienna’s 21st district, say their neighborhood is unrecognizable from what they remember, and have complained to the media about a migrant family with six children they accuse of...

Sport in brief: October 7, 2025
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: The new-look Champions League continues tomorrow evening with two-time winners Wolfsburg hosting Paris St Germain and Manchester United making their debut in the group/league stage at home to Norway’s Valerenga. Chelsea are at...

City Creatives: Anna Bergman knows the power of music
By Hannah Marr Anna Bergman can’t help herself. She sings everywhere. She hums at the grocery store, croons while walking her dog through Old Town Alexandria and even sings at the gym. But the moments she lives for are on stage, where she can...