To begin, Silver Linings Playbook (2012) was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Supporting Actor and Actress (Robert De Niro and Jackie Weaver), and director (David O. Russell). SLP begins as a film tackling mental illness and the ways a person’s psyche can destroy their life [...]
Balkan Trafik
Balkan Trafik 2013 – More than 200 artists from 17 countries The annual Balkan Trafik festival is now in its seventh year, and once more it offers up a heady mix of concerts, movies and party atmosphere from southeastern Europe. This time around the headliners are Goran Bregovic, the Taksim Trio, Akan Balkan Moon (Belgian [...]
English language a priority for youngsters in Brussels
Speaking English is considered “important” to “very important” by 96 percent of youngsters between 16 and 18 years of age. That is the most striking figure in of a series of results from a recent survey carried out by HEC Consulting Group in the Brussels metropolis among 453 young people. Significant for the international dimension [...]
Weird Brussels: Armless dudes
There is a lot of neo-classical statuary scattered around Brussels, and so these guys sort of blend in, until you stop and take another look, and ask yourself, “Wait, why are those men all standing around with no arms, dressed in weird fish-scale evening gowns?” I did a little research and found that the statues [...]
Comic book mural route
Brussels boasts a unique comic strip route. Along the route you can spot several walls in Brussels and Laeken which have been given over to huge murals celebrating famous comic book heroes. Below is a list of the murals in Brussels and in Laeken. Click on the character’s name and an image of the work [...]
Brussels: 19 town halls
Brussels has 19 communes, from the City of Brussels in the north, covering 32.6 square kilometres and home to over 145,000 inhabitants to Watermael in the south, much of it taken up by the Sonian Forest (Forêt de Soignes or Zoniënwoud). The smallest commune geographically is tiny Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, with only 1.1 square kilometres of space—and [...]
