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The quantities that are chowed and guzzled down on and around the Grote Markt/Grand-Place are truly incredible. Brussels’s way to the heart of many tourists is clearly through their stomachs. The Grasmarkt/rue du Marché aux Herbes is also bursting with gingerbread houses and chocolate fountains. The Greeks, who until recently were concentrated mainly on the Kaasmarkt/rue du Marché aux Fromages, have now occupied a building on the Grasmarkt/rue du Marché aux Herbes. They have opened the first branch of Chillbox, a chain specialised in frozen yoghurt.

Wednesday 8 May, the Fuse will be launching a brand-new electronic music festival at Tour & Taxis. The Brussels club that recently celebrated its 19^th birthday has collaborated with the German Time Warp Festival to put together the Fade In Festival. In three different Faderooms - all three with their own character and sound - you can see seventeen techno artists at work, including Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Locked Groove, Pearson Sound, Scuba, and many more.

(© Saskia Vanderstichele)

A new restaurant, Déjeuner sur l’Herbe, opened a few months ago where Le Péché Mignon used to be. The newcomer’s name is as appealing as that of its predecessor and is combined with a fresh-looking logo that sets you dreaming of fresh, healthy dishes sure to leave everyone’s cheeks glowing.

Sister and brother Karin and Olof Dreijer have an unusual perspective on the world and pop music, as became clear on their breakthrough album Silent Shout and the Charles Darwin “electro-opera” Tomorrow, In A Year, three years ago. On Shaking the Habitual, they have extended their pattern of erupting principles in an extreme manner.

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Ixelles and the W49 street art project are featured in The Huffington Post!! Parisian street artist FKDL's new wall, that was inaugurated last Tuesday 30 April, celebrates Audrey Hepburn's birthday on 4 May, twenty years after she passed away.

(Refugees in Blue Building, Brussels © Annemie Augustijns)

The jury of the Monography Series Award Nikon-Bozar has just awarded the Antwerp photographer Annemie Augustijns with the first prize. Her solo show at Bozar will run from 9 May to 30 June, and presents some 30 pictures of late modern architecture.

(© Saskia Vanderstichele)

Mercken on boulevard de Waterloolaan is a new luxury store entirely dedicated to menswear and suits by renowned tailors such as Brioni (Barack Obama’s favourite), Ermenegildo Zegna, and the American top designer Tom Ford.

While parents worry about what their very incommunicative adolescent children are getting up to in the corner of the house they have staked out, perhaps they are giddily becoming the next internet hype. A musical hype, in this case. Last year, it happened to the parents of the now seventeen-year-old Marcel Everett aka XXYYXX.

We’re willing to bet that, while there will be some people in the audience who will find Song for Marion a bit too corny and predictable, they will be less numerous than those who will have enjoyed this feel-good film with a lump in their throat.