German Singles: Sunday Business: MPs call for eine kleine more music
GERMAN politicians and musicians seem to have found a way to crank up the domestic music businesses: force the locals listen to German acts. Top-ranking politicians are calling for an airplay quota to boost the exposure of German-based bands, but artists are split on the issue and members of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's administration are loath to set standards for the nation's airtime.According to recent reports, German bands get less than 2% of domestic radio...
German Singles: Tennis: Durie regains her appetite
Playing her first tournament for two months and her first on shale for nearly a year, Jo Durie advanced to the last 16 of the German singles championship yesterday after eclipsing Iva Budarova, of Czechoslovakia, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. A rejuvenated Miss Durie must now overcome Sweden's Catarina Lindqvist to set up a quarter-final collision with Martina Navratilova.Miss Durie has been unable to recapture the form that carried her to the semi-finals of the French and United States Opens...
German Singles: How many lovers do you need to feel normal?
It's time for a count. How many lovers have you single people in your 30s had? How do you feel about that number? Do you wish it were higher, so that you'd have more stories to tell? Or lower, so that you didn't feel like such a loose animal? I love the scene from "Four Weddings and a Funeral," in which the Hugh Grant character asks American girl Andie McDowell how many people she's slept with. She...
German Singles: China Daily:
Beijing welcomes Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli is coming to China for the third time. The visually-impaired Italian tenor has become a world phenomenon over the last few years, bringing the house down with each concert finale whether he performs in his home country, Italy, or elsewhere.Bocelli made his Chinese debut last December with a sell-out concert in Shanghai, where the audience demanded three encores. Tickets for his Hong Kong concert in May were the most expensive the city had ever known for a concert. Now it is...
German Singles: Sour Krauts
Even the stuffed boar's head that for 10 years welcomed German tourists to Heinz Krane's bar on the Costa Brava has lost its natural grin. Krane stops just short of calling it an omen: ``Her teeth fell out, so I replaced them with plastic ones. But then there's not much for any of us to smile about at the moment."German expatriate landlords along the Spanish costas once clogged by Mercedes and camper-vans from the Rhine and the Ruhr are...
