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Are the Boomers Are Heading for the Barn?
When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in thelabor force, the lowest level since December 1981.
WANDERLUST
Eurostar Eyes Frankfurt Link
Eurostar is to extend its high speed rail service to link Frankfurt and Cologne via the Channel Tunnel to London within the next five years, according to a British newspaper report on Monday.
GERMERICANA
Digging into German Culture in Pennsylvania
By Chris Sholley
During the past year, a group of Lebanon Valley College students poured over German documents at the Lebanon County Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of an advanced course in the language. They made interesting discoveries about the lives of German immigrants.
AKADEMIA
Learning and Teaching German
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German Rock Band Tokio Hotel "A Fakery?"
Thu, 12/11/2008 - 13:16 — Walter
US Celebrity gossiper Perez Hilton says he has learned exclusively that the German glam rock band Tokio Hotel has been lipsynching and miming all of their performances in America.
"Straight-up fakery - Pathetic," the Hollywood-based tattletale writes on his website, Perez Hilton.
The "band" has been playing a round of radio holiday shows recently, and according to multiple sources, the lead singer is not singing live and the band isn't even playing their instruments live, Perez Hilton claims.
"Our source even provided us with the band's set list from one of the recent radio holiday shows, which indicates when to turn the mic back on for lead singer Bill Kaulitz to address the audience," he says.
The Magdeburg-based teen group – Bill, his brother Tom, Georg and Gustav – are currently touring the country.
Has success made the four pop idols cocky or did Bill never really recover from his larynx operation in March?
However, the alleged "straight-up fakery" might disappoint some teen fans as the group describe themselves as real musicians.
Hilton slammed the band as the "new Milli Vanilli," a reference to the ill-fated 1990s German-produced group that won a Grammy yet didn't actually sing their own songs.
Tokio Hotel released their first album Schrei (Scream) in May 2006 and sold some 600,000 copies in six days in Germany. It also quickly became a major success in France, Austria and Switzerland. The band’s first US single was released in late 2007.
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KULTUR
Celebrating Gustav Klimt
Vienna's art trade will be marking the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth in style. A series of special events in 2012 will pay tribute to the artist, who was a leading light in the Vienna Secession movement and a pioneer of modernism.
DAS KINO
Portrait of Wally - The Movie
A documentary about Austrian painter Egon Schiele's famous portrait of his mistress "Wally" opens Friday, in New York's Quad Cinema III. It traces the legal and emotional drama surrounding the oil painting. The following review is by Chuck Bowen of Slant.
DER STAMMTISCH
Gertrude Stein's Strange Views
By Mark Weber
Scholars of the life of Gertrude Stein were recently startled to learn that in 1938 the prominent American writer Gertrude Stein had spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler.
FUSSBALL
