Plzeň, known as the Czech capital of beer that gave the world Pilsner lager in 1842, has been officially inaugurated as the European Capital of Culture for 2015. An estimated 15,000 people gathered at the central Republic Square of the western Czech city on Saturday to watch the opening show.
In its simplest incarnation, a Späti is a convenience store. Open 24 hours, day and night, Spätis are an intrinsic element of Berlin’s cityscape. Pretty much exclusive to Berlin, except maybe Hypezig, there are over a thousand of them and the one commonality that they share is their uniqueness. With
Vancouver has resolved to eliminate food scraps from its waste stream entirely. Metro Vancouver spent the better part of last year plastering adorable pictures of googly-eyed food garbage all over the city to prepare it for the ban, which went into effect on January 1.Wasted food is also a waste
Toronto’s recently launched Mobile Good Food Market which is selling fresh products on the streets in areas where people have few nutritious food options.In order to give urbanites in food deserts access to fresh and healthy food, some Torontonians came up with the Mobile Good Food Market. This unconventional food truck, donated
Street art ― some as high as 15 m ― is drawing droves of visitors to Malaysia’s old towns. Many have catapulted the buildings that serve as canvasses to fame while others have drawn the public’s ire. Recently, Urban Xchange ― Malaysia’s first street art festival featuring Zacharevic, had artists like
” There has been much less research on the clustering of personality types within cities and the effects of neighborhood location on happiness”. It’s a well-worn sociological truth that the neighborhoods in which we live can have a powerful effect on our lives. But how do our neighborhoods affect our overall
New York City announced Thursday that as of this summer, those plastic foam containers (along with those plastic foam cups, plates and the like) are going to be banned. The city collected about 28,500 tons — repeat: 28,500 tons — of expanded polystyrene last year. About 90 percent of that was from
ATHENS, Greece -The Greek economic crisis has hit this historic capital city hard. But if there is a bright spot, it is the grassroots social initiatives mushrooming all over the city. Designers, chefs, architects, writers, educators and other professionals — many of them unemployed — have channeled their energies into
The solo exhibition by the Palestinian-born Canadian artist features three pieces that uncover and highlight narratives of the Palestinian people under occupation that rarely trickle into the mainstream — to the extent that their showing earlier this year in a related exhibition at Ottawa City Hall sparked a mini diplomatic
“There’s a lot of talk about food deserts today, but what many neighborhoods really have are place deserts,” says PPS’s Steve Davies. “As a result, we’re seeing a movement back to the idea of the Market City, with markets acting as catalysts for creating centers in neighborhoods that have lost
Plzen is preparing the biggest cultural event in the country for five years to celebrate Plzen as a European Capital of Culture 2015. The three-day ceremony, which will start on Friday, January 16, has been supervised by project artistic director Petr Forman, son of the Oscar-winning film director Milos Forman. The city
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Food, broadly defined, is a necessary sustenance that may also incorporate artistic practice — cooking, cuisine, and presentation. The Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) in Marseilles is currently hosting Food: Produce, Eat, Consume, an exhibition funded by ART for The World, an NGO associated with the Department of
In a 1999 lecture, the late Emmanuel N. Arinze, President of the Commonwealth Association of Museums stated that museums “hold the cultural wealth of the nation in trust for all generations and by its function and unique position, have become the cultural conscience of the nations.” Museums ensure understanding and
Caravaggio, Bruegel and Van Gogh all made studies of the poor in spite of rich patronage. Why aren’t more artists doing that now? Art has a long history of entertaining the rich. From ancient artisans who made gold drinking cups for kings, to the artists of today who sell installations to
Cape Town-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi Abel and the local Haven Night Shelter Welfare Organisation have joined forces to create a pop-up street store that offers free donated clothes to the homeless. The Street Store consists of a series of multifunctional cardboard posters that turn an ordinary sidewalk or fence into a shop display. The project asks citizens
