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Drive, but even darker; Valhalla Rising but even more brutal. Gulp. And even more stylised, despite the fact that Nicolas Winding Refn rejected a number of great offers after the success of Drive, to go and make a low-budget film in Thailand.

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Museum Night Fever, the annual event in which museums stay open until 1 am and treat their guests to tours, workshops, parties, and concerts, is looking for young artistic talent for the next edition on 22 February 2014. The organisers are looking for beginning artists, artists in training, or just any creative young people between 16 and 35 years old who would like to perform a concert, act, or production on that night. If you are interested, contact Pieter Van der Gheynst via pieter@brusselsmuseums.be. Candidates are also welcome to attend the information meeting on 3 June (1.30 pm) at the BIP, Koningsstraat 2 rue Royal, Brussels. Info: museumnightfever.be

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With a combination of acoustic instruments and the latest in electronic equipment, Crystal Fighters have taken a new direction and created a dance floor in the woods.

Last year, the good vibes of “Feel the Love” flooded the dance floor and the charts. On Rudimental’s first CD, Home, there is even more streetwise soul to loosen up your hips in the commercial jungle.

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It’s high time for ice cream because we’ve been waiting more than long enough. Sint-Katelijnestraat/rue Sainte-Catherine – a veritable hotspot for culinary experiences and discoveries – has recently welcomed a branch of Capoue, the Belgian artisanal ice cream makers. 

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“The best pastrami in Brussels”, is the claim to fame of Lou Lou, a pleasant snack bar around the corner from the busy Stefaniaplein/place Stéphanie. Superlatives always rouse our curiosity, so we decided to explore.

For the last few years, the industrious thirty-year-old rocker Bradford Cox with - "God”, according to some media – has been making a big impression with the guitar pop of his solo project Atlas Sound and the indie rock group Deerhunter.

Brussels is one of twenty cities taking part in the 2013 edition of the European Literature Night tonight. You'll be able to listen to Dutch- and French-speaking writers reading texts from their European colleagues at seven locations throughout the city: Tropismes Librairie, the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, La Bellone, Passa Porta, Le Cercle des Voyageurs, Le Wolf, and the Bibliothèque des Riches Claires!

The timetable is available here: http://www.literaturenights.eu/uploads/273/47d58e745d28bf83eb76372850f6d79d.pdf.

For quite some time, La Tentation has been drawing in crowds that like parties with a twist. From salsa lessons on Sunday evenings to the flashbacks to the Fifties and Sixties of Radio Modern, they all have their own niche.

The beautiful dance hall is now also the setting for Groovalicious, a recent party concept that takes a musical journey around the world. DJs Mukambo and Bruselo came up with the idea. Both gentlemen have been promoting world music in Brussels for years. The first is more specialised in Afro-beat, Afro-Latin, reggae, global hip hop, and exotic sounding genres like mangue beat and Ethio-grooves. The latter of the two, on the other hand, is a Balkan beats, cumbia, drum & bass, and dubstep wizard. We probably don’t need to tell you that these two guys guarantee fireworks on the dance floor. Elated birds of different feathers all happy together. Want to watch Brussels transform into an urb’n’jungle? Come to La Tentation this weekend.

Groovalicious 17/5, 22.00, €5/8, La Tentation, Lakensestraat 28 rue de Laeken, Brussel/Bruxelles, www.centrogalego.be

Five new releases this week, featuring trees, darkness, senior citizens, the Roaring Twenties, and some evil dead!