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Sziget 2016 Special Tickets Available Today, Interview With 'Island of Freedom' Founder
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Tickets for Sziget 2016 are now on sale, with special offers available for the first 24 hours. We've got the details from the super-man who founded one of Europe’s most popular cultural events. Also below you can now watch the best bits from Sziget this year - which XpatLoop.com asked founder Károly Gerendai about, amongst other related topics including his future. As you may know, he's one of ...
Secret Police Film Festival, Budapest, 25 November
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
In connection to the 'Watching You, Watching Me' exhibition at Galeria Centralis
The Blinken Open Society Archives presents: Secret Police Film Festival 5/6 on
25 November 2015 at 6.30 pm. Theme: The Stasi. What were they seeing while watching?
Inside Look. Film Laboratory, Budapest, 3 - 6 December 2015
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Europe’s Roma communities face deepening challenges of discrimination, violence and poverty. The US minority rights movement, which has had some notable successes over the past 50 years, also faces continuing problems, including police violence. We believe that a sharing of their struggles would be worthwhile as everyone searches for effective remedies.
Budapest Court Sentences Man For Insulting Israeli Consul
- 23 Nov 2015 11:00 AM
- current affairs
A Budapest court has sentenced a man who insulted the Israeli consul and his son to two years of probation in a final ruling, the Budapest chief prosecutor said. In the incident, the 63-year-old man, who was drunk, stopped the victims in a street in central Budapest in April, and hurled anti-Semitic insults at them, Tibor Ibolya said. The man also shouted “too bad I do not have a Kalashnikov to ...
RTL TV Banned From Hungarian Parliament
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Speaker László Kövér on Friday banned RTL Klub television from entering Parliament for an indefinite period, saying the crew from Hungary’s most popular channel had been filming in areas off-limits to the media. He did not say exactly where this had happened, but the ban comes after RTL attempted to record a press conference held in the building by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and ...
Nigel Kennedy, Budapest Sportaréna, 14 December
- 23 Nov 2015 1:00 AM
- entertainment
The ”rock star” of classic music in Budapest. On 14 December Nigel Kennedy, the virtuoso violin and viola player will present his LP introduction tour, titled The New Four Season. The artist also made it into the Guinness Book of Records as performer of the biggest selling classic LP, and now in Papp László Budapest Sports Arena he performs the revisited version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
TEK Chief: No Direct Terror Threat To Hungary
- 19 Nov 2015 8:31 AM
- current affairs
Hungary does not face any direct terrorist threat, János Hajdu, the head of the counter-terrorism centre (TEK), told public news channel M1. “TEK has not uncovered any information that would lead it to believe that the Hungarian people are under direct threat from possible terror plots,” Hajdu said, adding, however, that the country is under the same indirect threat as the rest of Europe.
Hungary’s Warmest 11th Of November, Ever!
- 12 Nov 2015 12:35 AM
- current affairs
Hungary witnessed a record temperature yesterday, with the thermometer rising as high as 23.6 C in Nagykanizsa, in the southwest of the country, the National Weather Service said. It was also the warmest November 11 on record in Budapest, with a temperature of 20.1 C recorded in the fourth district. Until this Wednesday, the highest temperature on November 11 in Budapest was 19 C, recorded in ...
Video: Budapest Voices - New Record
- 11 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- video
What was the most beautiful sentence you have ever been told? A film crew asked this from Hungarians when making a music video for the song Gyemant (Diamond) performed by the Budapest Voices choir. The people wrote and held the answers in front of them on cardboard. The result is a heartwarming, touching and sometimes funny music video which wants to encourage people to express their love, ...
Sziget 2016 Special Tickets Available Today, Interview With 'Island of Freedom' Founder
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Tickets for Sziget 2016 are now on sale, with special offers available for the first 24 hours. We've got the details from the super-man who founded one of Europe’s most popular cultural events. Also below you can now watch the best bits from Sziget this year - which XpatLoop.com asked founder Károly Gerendai about, amongst other related topics including his future. As you may know, he's one of ...
Secret Police Film Festival, Budapest, 25 November
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
In connection to the 'Watching You, Watching Me' exhibition at Galeria Centralis
The Blinken Open Society Archives presents: Secret Police Film Festival 5/6 on
25 November 2015 at 6.30 pm. Theme: The Stasi. What were they seeing while watching?
Inside Look. Film Laboratory, Budapest, 3 - 6 December 2015
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Europe’s Roma communities face deepening challenges of discrimination, violence and poverty. The US minority rights movement, which has had some notable successes over the past 50 years, also faces continuing problems, including police violence. We believe that a sharing of their struggles would be worthwhile as everyone searches for effective remedies.
Budapest Court Sentences Man For Insulting Israeli Consul
- 23 Nov 2015 11:00 AM
- current affairs
A Budapest court has sentenced a man who insulted the Israeli consul and his son to two years of probation in a final ruling, the Budapest chief prosecutor said. In the incident, the 63-year-old man, who was drunk, stopped the victims in a street in central Budapest in April, and hurled anti-Semitic insults at them, Tibor Ibolya said. The man also shouted “too bad I do not have a Kalashnikov to ...
RTL TV Banned From Hungarian Parliament
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Speaker László Kövér on Friday banned RTL Klub television from entering Parliament for an indefinite period, saying the crew from Hungary’s most popular channel had been filming in areas off-limits to the media. He did not say exactly where this had happened, but the ban comes after RTL attempted to record a press conference held in the building by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and ...
Nigel Kennedy, Budapest Sportaréna, 14 December
- 23 Nov 2015 1:00 AM
- entertainment
The ”rock star” of classic music in Budapest. On 14 December Nigel Kennedy, the virtuoso violin and viola player will present his LP introduction tour, titled The New Four Season. The artist also made it into the Guinness Book of Records as performer of the biggest selling classic LP, and now in Papp László Budapest Sports Arena he performs the revisited version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
TEK Chief: No Direct Terror Threat To Hungary
- 19 Nov 2015 8:31 AM
- current affairs
Hungary does not face any direct terrorist threat, János Hajdu, the head of the counter-terrorism centre (TEK), told public news channel M1. “TEK has not uncovered any information that would lead it to believe that the Hungarian people are under direct threat from possible terror plots,” Hajdu said, adding, however, that the country is under the same indirect threat as the rest of Europe.
Hungary’s Warmest 11th Of November, Ever!
- 12 Nov 2015 12:35 AM
- current affairs
Hungary witnessed a record temperature yesterday, with the thermometer rising as high as 23.6 C in Nagykanizsa, in the southwest of the country, the National Weather Service said. It was also the warmest November 11 on record in Budapest, with a temperature of 20.1 C recorded in the fourth district. Until this Wednesday, the highest temperature on November 11 in Budapest was 19 C, recorded in ...
Video: Budapest Voices - New Record
- 11 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- video
What was the most beautiful sentence you have ever been told? A film crew asked this from Hungarians when making a music video for the song Gyemant (Diamond) performed by the Budapest Voices choir. The people wrote and held the answers in front of them on cardboard. The result is a heartwarming, touching and sometimes funny music video which wants to encourage people to express their love, ...