Part II of this five-part series depicts the beginning of the accidental pen-pal relationship between Diana growing up in the GDR and a girl growing up in the Soviet Union - the pivot of the whole story. We welcome readers to share their transnational cultural experiences with us, as well.
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Our live music expert is in trouble this week. Busy schedules leave no room to experience live music, and the band she wishes to see most is not coming to Leipzig at all. So all she can do is listen to their record while commuting or working in the garden and watch out for future
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Our culinary columnist today explores a South African friend's food culture, having learned a lot of interesting expressions, traditions and memories from his life she hadn't known before, but among which she found "incredible" commonalities with her own food culture.
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"People, do you know the blend of happiness and surprise after trying out something completely new and seeing that something work out well immediately? This blog post is about a recent 'something' like that and at the same time about music, spontaneity, friends and one of my favourite venues in Leipzig."
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Here's our regular listing of films being shown in English and other original foreign languages at Leipzig cinemas for this movie week. My recommendation this time around is the figuratively and at times literally dizzying movie Victoria. It's mostly in English, shot in one take in real time in Berlin, and quite a cinematic achievement,
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Our LoveLy love columnist and I attended the LivelyriX open-air poetry slam at Leipzig's Panometer last week and had a very fun time; she wrote about it, I photographed, and you can see the result of our collaboration here.
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