Residents of some Brussels neighbourhoods where the annual Winter Wonders are held say they would like to see changes to next year’s edition, and want to play a bigger role in the organisation. Complaints were made about decorations, offerings and noise pollution related to the winter festivities,...

Belgium’s amusement parks are wasting no time in preparing for the next operating season, with Walibi, Pairi Daiza and other parks recruiting en masse. Parks are looking to hire ride operators, kitchen assistants, hotel staff, plumbers, kitchen assistants, security guards, reception staff, actors,...

Multi-talented pianists and composers Charles Loos & Eric Legnini perform their new CD Growlin ’ Faces in a special concert at Marni Theatre on 31 January. Released by independent Belgian record label Igloo Records, the album’s nine tracks show off the pair’s eclectic range, from acoustic and...

Cinema Nova, on Rue d'Arenberg in Brussels, is hoping to raise €265,000 by the end of March in order to buy back the premises on which it sits. The non-profit movie theatre first opened its doors in the centre of Brussels in 1997, built in the ruins of the legendary Arenberg studio. But the lease...

The Brussels municipality of Auderghem played host to its traditional annual Christmas tree-throwing championship this weekend, with the winner throwing a tree an impressive 8.72 metres. This was the eighth edition of the event, Bruzz reports. “This year no new record distance was thrown, but the...

On 19 September 2023, the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region passed a new ordinance on the preferential right for tenants of rented property. This new measure entered into force in January 2024. What is the preferential right? How does it work in practice? What measures apply if the landlord...

Brussels residents who prefer to put out their household rubbish in a rigid bin, to avoid bags of waste being torn open by animals, have been told that only one type of bin will be accepted from this month. Waste collection agency Bruxelles Propreté said it would only accept bin bags in a black...

Belgian craftsman Johan Deblieck has been commissioned to build a small organ to celebrate the reopening of one of Paris’s most famous landmarks. The stunning French Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral, a symbol of the city of light, is scheduled to welcome people through its doors again by the end of the...

After some 120 years, a figure has finally been put on the value of Belgium’s Royal Donation or trust, which was left to the state by King Leopold II. The heritage, donated by Leopold II at the end of his life, in 1909, is estimated at €231 million, according to La Libre Belgique. This is the first...