Art & Culture

Stuttgart -- Before grabbing a Black Friday deal around November 27, 2026, German consumer portal DSLWEB advises checking which TV and streaming subscriptions you already pay for. A discount only saves money if it replaces existing costs or covers a real viewing need.

Start by tallying every monthly payment

Separate services for a favorite series, for films and for live sports can strain a household budget quickly. DSLWEB suggests collecting all monthly payments first and asking which services you actually use. It also asks which subscription keeps running after a series has ended.

Existing TV, internet or mobile plans deserve a look too. They may already include streaming services that go unused.

Baden-Baden – November 06, 2026 -- A new documentary series about life at one of Europe's most exclusive boarding schools arrives in the ARD Mediathek on December 29, 2026. "Louisenlund – Das Elite-Internat" follows four students through a full school year, and NDR broadcasts it on January 4, 2027, at 10 p.m.

Four students from very different backgrounds anchor the series

The series tracks Johanna, Florian, Milad and Louisa at Schloss Louisenlund, set directly on the Schlei. More than 300 young people live at the school away from their families, often since early childhood.

Some students come from privileged homes. Others are highly gifted teenagers from financially disadvantaged families who won a place through support programs.

Palm Springs – November 05, 2026 -- On Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, at 1 p.m., the Palm Springs Air Museum will dedicate a Blue Angels F/A-18 Super Hornet. It is the first Super Hornet placed on permanent public display outside a military installation.

The jet appeared on camera in Top Gun: Maverick

The aircraft is featured in Top Gun: Maverick as one of Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell's on-camera aircraft. It is dedicated to museum founder Robert Pond, USN, and the event marks the museum's 30th anniversary.

A water arch salute and a Bearcat flyover open the ceremony

The program includes a Water Arch Retirement ceremony for the jet and a flyover by a Grumman F8F Bearcat. Brief dedication remarks follow, and the museum is serving free 30th anniversary "birthday" cake.

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BROOKVILLE, N.Y. – November 05, 2026 -- Visitors to Long Island University's Post campus can now see campaign buttons, banners, paper dresses and parade torches from American political history in "The Presidency & Promise of America: A More Perfect Union," which opened October 28.

The exhibition is presented with the Museum of Democracy and drawn from its Wright Family Collection of more than one million political and historical objects. It opened as the nation marks the 250th anniversary of American independence.

The Wright Family Collection spans Washington to Trump

Amassed over four decades, the collection documents presidential campaigns from George Washington through Donald Trump. It also includes ephemera from the civil rights, women's rights, political reform and social justice movements.

Changshan – November 05, 2026 -- Changshan County in China's Zhejiang Province drew 503,000 tourist visits over the 2026 National Day holiday, up 22.8% year on year, and overnight trips jumped 40.1% to 267,000 as lantern-lit streets, village carnivals and food markets kept visitors in town after dark.

The visit total ranks 10th in Zhejiang Province and first in Quzhou for growth. Overnight growth was the second-fastest in the province and the fastest in Quzhou. The county ran the holiday under the theme "Meet U in Changshan: Immerse Yourself."

Night tours and torch carnivals keep visitors past sunset

The Beimen Historic and Cultural District staged Beimen Abuzz: A Theatrical Stroll Through Changshan, with flying aoyu fish lanterns, traditional box lanterns and street acrobatics evoking the Song dynasty. Holiday attendance there reached 191,500, up 10.69%.

Berlin -- From November 6, 2026 to February 27, 2028, the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin invites visitors to explore, test and reshape their own language in the exhibition "Real Talk! Sprache. Macht. Welt." Languages are spoken, signed, written and felt, and the show follows how new media, mobility and migration keep changing them.

Six rooms ask six questions about language

The show moves through six themed rooms, each built around one guiding question. "Sprachwelten" traces the origins of language, from how the brain processes a word to the "digital campfire." "Vielfalt" notes that people were multilingual more than 4,000 years ago. It runs from ancient coins to lullabies from today's Berlin, played at the audio station "Berlin schläft ein," and also covers invented languages such as Klingon and Elvish.

Unterföhring – November 05, 2026 -- ProSieben's new adventure show "Catch Us. Die Jagd durch Europa" premieres Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 21:25 and continues on November 11 and 12 at 20:15. The episodes also stream on Joyn.

The premise pits four celebrity targets against almost 14 million social media users. Andrea Kiewel, Chris Tall, and the father-son pair Jenke and Jánik von Wilmsdorff must stay undetected for five days in a European metropolis. They wear conspicuous red-and-white striped shirts the entire time.

Daily tasks force the targets out of hiding

Simply staying put is not an option. Each day, the targets must complete tasks that pull them out of cover and into public view.

They start with a one-hour head start on their pursuers and flee to three European cities. Planting false trails is key to throwing the hunters off.

Munich – November 05, 2026 -- The three-part documentary series "Kings of Scam" about the fake DHL text message scam is available in the ARD Mediathek and has won first prize at the Helmut Schmidt Journalist Prize. The Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) production traces the criminal network behind the messages and a mysterious piece of software.

The scam starts with a harmless-sounding parcel notice

The series opens with a message like this one: a DHL parcel has arrived at the warehouse, cannot be delivered because of an incomplete address, and the recipient must confirm the address via a link within 12 hours. According to the source, messages like this open the door to a large-scale fraud. Every year, sensitive data is stolen from hundreds of thousands of people, and their credit card details are skimmed.

Berlin – November 05, 2026 -- Visitors can see a free art exhibition on antibiotic resistance from November 7 to 14, 2026, on the ground floor of the ALEXA shopping center at Alexanderplatz.

"Sketching Antimicrobial Resistance – Thirty Stories, One Health" is a European touring exhibition, and Berlin is its first stop in Germany. ALEXA is hosting it together with the Federal Ministry of Health. It can be visited during the center's regular hours, Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Thirty illustrations turn a complex topic into images

The show consists of 30 illustrations by artists from all EU and EEA member states. They cover the proper use of antibiotics, hygiene and infection prevention, the protection of pets and farm animals, and the effects on the environment. The visual language is meant to be understandable regardless of age or prior knowledge.

Strasbourg – November 05, 2026 -- The 90-minute documentary "The Slavery Network: Tracing a Dark Legacy" streams on arte.tv from December 1 and airs on TV at 8:15 p.m. the same day. It is a first broadcast.

The film follows money from Ghana and the Caribbean to three European cities

Directors Sarah Vianney and Martin Carazo Mendez trace financial flows from the past into the present. The route runs from Ghana and the Caribbean to Liverpool, Nantes and Berlin. The film shows how widely Europe profited from slavery, which it describes as both one of history's greatest crimes and a global economic system.