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Is A Steak Dinner Served with Gummy Bears the Next Superfood?
There’s nothing wrong with wanting a little dessert after a satisfying dinner, but rarely do we indulge ourselves under the notion that doing so is actually good for us. However, a new finding out of the German University for Prevention and Health Management in Saarbrück...
FlixBus is Here — Travels US Roads with Unbeatable $2.99 LA to Vegas Fare
Last year we announced that Germany’s popular budget bus service FlixBus would soon be hitting U.S. roads, and today the time has finally come to start spotting those iconic green buses traveling the southwest. FlixBus, which has set up its American headquarters in Los An...
German Cuckoo Clock Gets A Modern Makeover
Not much has changed in the look of German cuckoo clocks over the years, and perhaps that helps maintain its status as an icon, but for Guido Zimmermann, a Frankfurt-based artist, it was time to make a change to reflect the modern architecture of today. While the classic ...
11 New German Music Videos: Not Profane, Die Lochis, and more
Finding the latest German music videos, let alone new German music in general, can be a royal pain in the ass. We know! But we have made it one of our missions to end that nonsense and as a result, we are bearing the pain for you so you can ... Read Story →
Jägermeister Kicks Off ‘Real Shot’ World Cup Challenge to Keep U.S. Football Fans Abuzz
The U.S. men’s soccer — let’s call it football — team has been competing in the World Cup continuously since 1990, but during a qualifying round of games against Trinidad and Tobago in October of last year, American fans saw their World Cup excitement dashed when Team USA...
Skip the Skip: 5 German Ads You’ll Want to Watch (#4)
We’ve searched the web to find the best commercials coming out of Germany. Why? Who doesn’t love taking a look into the marketing adventures of a foreign land. Here’s your chance to see 5 German ads that probably have real Germans waiting for the ‘Skip’ to appear. Kau...
German Parents Taking Kids on Early Vacations Are Being Taught an Expensive Lesson
In America, it is standard practice for parents to excuse their children from school for anything from an early start on vacation to something as menial as staying out late for a concert, but parents in Germany don’t get such an easy pass. With warmer weather arriving and...
German Financial Thriller ‘Bad Banks’ Lands on Hulu
Hulu has decided to throw its hat into the German video content ring with last weeks announcement that it had picked up the US streaming rights to the popular Franco-German financial thriller Bad Banks. Set in the ruthless world of international stock markets and finance,...
Reporters Without Borders Germany Brilliantly Bypasses Government Censorship
Despite a large amount of criticism over “fake news” and American journalism, things could be worse when you look at the extreme censorship of news media that exists across the world. For the billions of people deprived of this right, getting around government enforced ce...
Berlin’s HelloFresh Proves Its U.S. Meal Kit Dominance Is As Fresh As Ever
With busy lifestyles and the desire to eat healthy becoming the norm, there has been a fast rise in startups looking to solve that problem with healthy and easy to assemble meal kits delivered to the door. When Germany’s HelloFresh entered into the lucrative US market in ...
How to Watch the Eurovision 2018 Grand Final in the US
The 63rd annual Eurovision Song Contest is set to crown this year’s winning nation on Saturday (May 12) in Lisbon, Portugal, and if you’re itching to see all 26 finalists sing their hearts out as it happens without using a bootleg stream or VPN in the US, you’re in luck. ...
11 New German Music Videos: Die Toten Hosen, Cro, and more
Finding the latest German music videos, let alone new German music in general, can be a royal pain in the ass. We know! But we have made it one of our missions to end that nonsense and as a result, we are bearing the pain for you so you can ... Read Story →