December is finally here. And with this last month of the year comes the Holiday season. If you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Pancha Ganapati, the winter solstice, New Year’s, all or none of these days, you can sense something changing around you.
Around the end of January 2021, the Dutch government implemented a curfew to prevent the spreading of COVID-19. This is how I stumbled upon the Netflix series Locke & Key with my best friend from Budapest, a show that gave structure to my nights during lockedown.
A few days ago I opened a book about Cinema history. It was a famous director listing the different individuals who came before him and inspired him in his own productions.
The Unknown Groningen By: Leda Spiranec The Unknown Groningen By: Leda Spiranec When walking around Groningen, one is always bound to encounter various lively groups…
You’re standing at the precipice of the stage with your instrument. You’ve had a few drinks to give you courage; your friends are practically begging you to step up and join in the music-making.
Before I start, let me make some things clear. This article has been written from a Western perspective. I have been raised as a catholic white woman. And although I don’t claim any religion, it still influenced my upbringing and my conceptions of the world.
‘Windows to the soul’, they say, but I say, a way to control the environment you live in – changing it up, depending on your mood.
Not knowing can be scary. It brings us the insecurity of uncertainty and how much we have yet to discover. Either by pride, fear or curiosity, something that is unknown can be terrifying.
Recently, the city of Groningen suffered a great and terrible loss. After being a feature in the city’s nightlife for years, Oost became the latest casualty of the pandemic when it closed its doors once and for all, early in the morning of October 4th.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. The sound of it is quite atrocious isn’t it? Yet this tricky word reflects all the complications that the movie Mary Poppins (obviously) had to face to take form.