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Good Move one year later: Fewer cars, more bikes in Brussels

After a year of the formal implementation of Brussels’ mobility plan ‘Good Move’, the City of Brussels is reporting fewer cars and more cyclists in the city centre. Brussels-City published mobility data one year to the day after the official launch of the regional Good Move plan within the Pentagon...

€30 million Charleroi Airport subsidies under fire

With low-cost airline Ryanair finishing its third two-day strike in a month earlier this week, pressure is increasing to review the substantial subsidies given to its Belgian base of Charleroi Airport. Many critics question if this state aid should remain, if profitability is not always there,...

Tiger mosquitos reproduce in Belgium for the first time

This year, for the first time, Belgian researchers have discovered a colony of tiger mosquitoes that have survived the winter and are reproducing. This is a cause for concern, as these tropical insects - which are smaller and more aggressive than our native varieties with characteristic black and...

JOAN AGHIB : WORKS ON PAPER, 40 YEARS OF GRAPHIC ART IN NEW YORK, PARIS, BRUSSELS, VIENNA

Submitted by Lisa Aghib on Sat, 08/19/2023 - 13:12

Retrospective show of Joan Aghib, at Galerie Mhaata in Brussels. She was an American etcher living and working in Brussels for many years teaching a very special technique, called the Hayter technique.

The vernissage will take place on September 14th as of 6.00 pm

 

Heiderose Mohr exhibition

Submitted by Helen O'Sullivan on Fri, 08/18/2023 - 16:10

Als Adern Durch Sein Dunkel is a solo exhbition by artist Heiderose Mohr - a German multidisciplinary artist living and working in Belgium. She combines oil paint with digital collage and printed images. 

Belgian cuisine: Where to enjoy local specialities in Brussels

The Belgian capital has a long tradition of serving a rich variety of regional produce with dishes that reflect the country’s culinary heritage. Beyond the tourist trap restaurants littering streets around the Grand Place, there’s no shortage of dining places dishing up tasty examples of the...
Belgian cycling legend Yvonne Reynders

Belgian cycling legend Yvonne Reynders honoured in elite women’s road race

She won more world race titles than Belgian cycling legend Eddy Merckx, yet Yvonne Reynders’ glittering cycling career has largely gone unnoticed. The Brussels-born sportswoman became a world champion road cyclist for the third time in her career on 11 August 1963. But in those gender inequality...

Big clean-up operation on Avenue de la Toison d'Or

Overflowing rubbish bags, non or badly-sorted waste, illegal fly-tipping, urine on cafe terraces, even rats and mice - this is the reality of the Avenue de la Toison d’Or. The depressing situation was made only too evident after a major clean-up operation earlier this week organised by the Brussels...

A shoe as collateral: Belgian cafe has unique strategy to stop glass thefts

With Belgian beers’ world famous reputation, it is perhaps no surprise that some tourists or other patrons look to abscond from pubs with a souvenir in the form of a beer glass. As a result, Le Soir reports, some establishments are taking extra - and unusual - measures to prevent theft. The Dulle...

Malmedy makes 28th giant omelette in style

The Belgian town of Malmedy, in the Eastern Cantons, is not only famous for its Cwarme – a traditional Walloon carnival - but for making a vast omelette each year. On Tuesday, Assumption Day, it celebrated its 28th "giant omelette day" on the town’s central square, Place de Rome, watched by some 6,...

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