From Old World to LoDo, it's Oktoberfest
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In the kitchen at their German restaurant in Aurora, Helga Bruntsch, 38, her brother Herbert Huber, 42, and their mother, Berta Huber, a German immigrant, hand-twisted thousands of pretzels in preparation for ...
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This year's Ars Electronica festival turned the city of Linz, Austria, into one big digital art installation, featuring everything from car alarms programmed with laugh tracks to messages broadcast by antelope horn. By Michelle Delio.
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There's hype. There's hysteria. And there's history.
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Visions of Germany: Bavaria showcases the diversity of Germany's southeastern region - from the old world charm of castles, fortresses and gardens, to the Mediterranean flair of the bodensee, the "German ...
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The German language isn&#39;t normally thought of as being pretty, but that hasn&#39;t stopped the Goethe Institute from holding a competition for German&#39;s most beautiful world.
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Drunken revellers at the world's biggest beer festival this year can purchase a stiff linguistic pick-me-up for when their brains get addled - a beer- and mustard-proof guide to Bavarian slang.
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The steps of Cologne&#039;s famous cathedral are a sight to behold, 31 stone stairs stretching almost the length of a football field at their longest point. On this workday, though, the scene on the steps is even more impressive. It&#039;s not even noon, and every spare inch is filled with boisterous World Cup fans dressed in their nation&#039;s colors. The Germans are standing and singing, the English are waving banners, the Swedes are clapping.
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All you need to know as the year-long festival begins
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Dance fans can look forward to exotic cross-genre experiments, timely revivals, and tours by international troupes.
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It is a land of green pastures, rolling hills and centuries of history. It's also a land of long summer days, drinks without a lot of ice and some of the most friendly people you'll find anywhere.
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In a few weeks time families and tourists will flock to Frankfurt's old town centre for the annual Christmas fair in front of the town hall.
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Italians have taken a shine to ghosts, ghouls and mummies -- in just a few years, the imported festival for Halloween has taken the Bel Paese by storm.
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For a soldier who's been serving in Iraq, going to Oktoberfest is one way to find out what he's been missing.
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At this time of year, the world seems built for birds on the wing.
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Beer-cellars, ale-houses, pubs, taverns and other watering-holes kicked off the 171st Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany, where millions of visitors are expected to visit the annual booze-fest.
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The Culinary Olympics are set to get under way in Germany. Thirty-two nations have sent their best chefs to fight it out in the city of Erfurt - the biggest number since the competition began.
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.