GENEVA, Switzerland -29,000 spectators crowded the Stade de Genève for the first outdoor ice hockey game between Lausanne and Geneva. The only goal of the game was scored in overtime by Austrian Olivier Setzinger, 30, the top scorer for HSC Lausanne and also a member of the Austrian national ice hockey team. Vidéo: Lausanne remporte…
Author: Laila Rodriguez-Bloch
Caught on film: the Spanish Civil War
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Spanish Civil War was seemingly well documented in film by several factions: Franquists, communists, nationalists and foreigners who were irresistibly pulled to a national conflict with major international consequences. The Cinemateca de Madrid, which owns these valuable films is loaning seven of them to the Geneva-based Theatre du Grutli for a…
Wine Tasting Courses in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – La Verre en cave wine store is currently offering French, Italian and Spanish wine tasting courses in Geneva on Thursday evenings from 18:30 to 20:00, to a maximum of eight persons per group. All the courses take place in the shop with a possibility to arrange additional tastings on other dates provided there are…
Black Movie Film Festival in Geneva and Lausanne
GENEVA and LAUSANNE – The Black Movie film festival which begins 17 January is hosting a pre-opening film festival and party in Lausanne on 9 January. The Petit Black Movie pour adulte will feature a selection of ten short films for older audiences, unlike the rest of the Petit Black Movie festival which is intended for children, followed by…
Turn your headlights on, it’s the new Swiss law
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Swiss Council for Accidents Prevention or Bureau de prévention des accidents, has mandated that as of 1 January 2014 all cars in Switzerland must drive with their headlights on during the day.
Vote for the worst company: Public Eye Awards
BERN, Switzerland – The Swiss organization, Declaration de Berne, founded in 1968 to “promote development as a collective and egalitarian process,” organizes each year a public voting on what it considers to be some of the world’s worst companies in terms of sustainable development and labor rights. The 2014 “candidates” include companies such as fashion giant…
Geneva: Drink-driver stops to purchase highway permit
GENEVA, Switzerland – This could be a case of extreme responsibility, or extreme drunkenness. A French woman, 46, was arrested on the evening of 6 January after stopping -voluntarily- at the Bardonnex customs point of entry to purchase a Swiss highway permit or vignette… while clearly intoxicated. According to Geneva’s cantonal police, officers noticed she smelled of alcohol…
Sneak Peek of Bruce Springsteen’s New Album
GENEVA – Bruce Springsteen fans in Geneva are gearing up for next week’s official release of The Boss’s 18th studio album, High Hopes. The New Jersey native’s new album is a collection of cover songs -many of them well-known among his true, hard-core fans- originals and older songs “dusted off and reanimated,” as Billboard has called them….
The Bill Douglas Trilogy in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – Don’t miss the Bill Douglas’ trilogy at the Gruetli Theater this week in Geneva.
Two Women Run Over in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – Two women aged 21 and 22, were run over by a car while crossing the Quai Wilson near the Mont-Blanc Bridge on 4 January. Police said one of the women, 22, a South African national, is in serious condition. The other one, a German national, 21, was slightly wounded as a result of the…
Sundays in Geneva: Free Entry to Museum Exhibits
GENEVA, Switzerland – First Sunday of the month and you don’t know what to do? Although the last thing you might want to do in a rare sunny day is head indoors, that is precisely one of the options. Entry to temporary exhibitions is free of charge on the first Sunday of the month in all 14…
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