Fabian Jansen and Lara Billie Rense.Image Renée de Groot During follow-up talks in Heerenveen and Leeuwarden, people from the audience approached theater maker Fabian Claes Jansen and journalist Lara Billie Rense to thank them. Sometimes in tears, sometimes with a spontaneous embrace. These were not only people who themselves struggled with their gender identity or … Read more
Music editor Jacob Haagsma is busy with pop and wide surroundings. What kept him off the streets this week? And, Jacob, have you recovered a bit from Eurosonic Noorderslag? Well, that turned out to be quite a chore. That come to, I mean. Because it was not nothing, that first physical Noorderslag in three years. … Read more
Doortje SmithuijsenJanuary 22, 202317:10 When Monica Geuze was recently in Milan, she reminisced in her vlog about a visit seven years earlier, when she bought her first Chanel bag. She didn’t have to tell me: I saw her in reverse through the video, that younger Monica, still confused about the amount of money she’d just … Read more
By: Vellah Bogle Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Your not in Kansas anymore, they would say in The Wizard of Oz. You realize that soon enough when a Japanese toilet starts talking to you or you have to do a jump in a Chinese hotel to avoid stepping on the floor in someone’s spit. Cultural norms … Read more
Marije Meerman, director of ‘Planet Finance’.Figurine Jelmer de Haas For the six-part VPRO series PlanetFinance filmmaker Marije Meerman delves into the world of cat bonds, short sellers, oil futures and currency gurus. That world affects almost everyone – stocks and pensions depend on it – but is understood by almost no one. How did Meerman, … Read more
07 jan 2023 om 05:33 Join Who is the mole? via the renewed app and travel through time with the greatest hits. These are the apps of the week. Who is the mole? A new season will start on NPO1 on Saturday Who is the mole? The program is made more fun for the fans … Read more
Figurine Bob Mollema He didn’t like the church, he also renounced marriage, he had hardly any friends. He was the eldest of ten children, seven of whom died young. Carlo Lorenzini (1826-1890) lived with her until his mother’s death, after which he moved in with a brother. He wrote under the pseudonym Carlo Collodi Stories … Read more
AP For years she stood proudly on a plinth in the center of Odessa: Catherine the Great. Until today. The imposing statue of the eighteenth-century Russian tsarina has to go. It is taken to a museum. It may seem like a small decision of local politics in the southern Ukrainian city, but it is one … Read more
Helen Mirren in ‘The Queen’ by Stephen Frears. The Queen NPO 2, 7:42 p.m (Drama, Stephen Frears, 2006) The British queen loved animals more than people, that could be one of the conclusions from the feature film The Queen, about the painful period in England after the death of Princess Diana. Besides protagonist Helen Mirren, … Read more
Sun 18 Dec, 21:58 To read aloud Culture RUURLO – The Love Path in Ruurlo is getting wings. The two impressive works of art that were placed last week are inundated with compliments. The first edition of the Love Fan was sold out within a few days. “The Lichtjeswalk is … Read more