Art & Culture

Unterföhring – October 30, 2026 -- Six new episodes of "Wer stiehlt mir die Show?" start on ProSieben on November 1, 2026, airing Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and streaming on Joyn. Host Joko Winterscheidt once again has to defend his own show against challengers.

Three challengers quiz for Joko's hosting job

Comedian and actress Carolin Kebekus, NBA player Moritz Wagner and entertainer and streamer Jens "Knossi" Knossalla compete for the prize: Joko's moderation job. Only a contestant who beats him with strategy and knowledge takes over his show in the following episode.

Cologne – October 30, 2026 -- The new social reality series "Vibes – Find Your Fire" arrives in the ARD Mediathek on November 5, 2026, with ten episodes of 50 minutes each. TV star Motsi Mabuse accompanies nine women who spend twelve days together in a villa on Rhodes.

The participants do not know each other and are at very different points in their lives. What they share is a wish for change, sensuality, closeness to themselves and the courage to give their own needs more room.

Mabuse leads the group with two experts at her side

Mabuse acts as confidante and motivator. She listens, asks questions and pushes the women to look at uncomfortable topics. Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Hedda Hess and sexological bodyworker Stella Sieger support her.

Tokyo – October 30, 2026 -- A pilot tour in Tokyo's Asakusa district will take visitors through a traditional craft workshop, a neighborhood walk and an introduction to ozashiki, the intimate setting where geisha and hōkan entertain guests. Organizer ROJICOYA has not yet opened bookings, and details on availability, duration and participation requirements will appear on its official website.

The tour is built around three experiences

ROJICOYA organizes cultural experiences, walking tours and events centered on Edo culture and traditional performing arts, primarily in Tokyo. For this pilot, the guides are the people who sustain Asakusa's traditions: a rakugo storyteller or a hōkan leads the walk, and geisha and hōkan perform at close range.

Munich – October 30, 2026 -- Annette Dittert's "Dear Britain" has won the Bayern 2 audience award at the Bavarian Book Prize, chosen by radio listeners from five titles. The winner was announced on Thursday evening, October 29, at the ceremony in Munich's Allerheiligen-Hofkirche.

Listeners picked Dittert's book over four other bestsellers

The five nominees were bestsellers in Bavarian bookshops this year. Besides "Dear Britain", the shortlist included "Lázár" by Nelio Biedermann, "Nein sagen" by Matthias Brandt, "Die Riesinnen" by Hannah Häffner and "Pina fällt aus" by Vera Zischke. Listeners named Dittert's book their favorite for 2026.

KANSAS CITY – October 30, 2026 -- Two Kansas City haunted attractions, Edge of Hell (open since 1975) and Beast Haunted Attraction (open since 1991), build their scares on more than a monster in a mask, says industry spokesperson Amber Arnett-Bequeaith, known as the Queen of Haunts.

Sound, smell and touch do the heavy lifting

According to Arnett-Bequeaith, the real work happens before you see the monster. A scream from somewhere unseen builds anticipation. A damp, musty odor hints that something has been lurking for years. An unfamiliar texture or a dark passage gives the imagination room to run.

Smell has particularly strong connections to brain systems involved in emotion and memory. Combined with sight and sound, it can make an imaginary world feel convincing enough to trigger an instinctive response.

Charleston, S.C. – October 30, 2026 -- Palmetto Publishing has released Not My President, a book of 48 numbered quotations from Donald J. Trump, now available at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

Each entry is one quotation followed by a plain footnote naming the speaker, the venue, the city and the date. The compiler, listed as J. Williams, adds no jokes and no analysis. The full title is Not My President: Dumb Things Said by the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

The first entry comes from a 2019 kidney health signing

The book opens on July 10, 2019, at the signing of an executive order on advancing American kidney health in Washington, D.C. The quoted line: "The kidney has a very special place in the heart." The footnote follows, then the next entry.

CHARLESTON – October 30, 2026 -- Brechtian, a fifteen-story flash fiction anthology by debut author Asher Rush, is now available online through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Palmetto Publishing released the collection, which covers action, romance, and biblical tragedy.

Narrators interrupt themselves and argue with readers

Every story in the book is told by a narrator who breaks the fourth wall. The title nods to Bertolt Brecht's theatrical tradition of shattering the stage illusion, and Rush applies the same approach to the page.

The anthology opens with X, a self-described "near miss assassin" who wakes in a hospital bed and trades sharp dialogue with a nurse. He is a trained killer who has never completed a job. Later stories feature a villager hanged for honesty and a reluctant vampire cursed to become something worse.

MIAMI BEACH – October 29, 2026 -- Fontainebleau Miami Beach is selling tickets to its New Year's Eve celebration on Thursday, December 31, starting at $200 for an adults-only party with GRAMMY-winning DJ David Guetta and $375 for a new family-friendly event for guests ages 11 and older.

Guetta runs the countdown inside Sparkle Theatre

The resort is splitting its annual celebration into two experiences this year. Guetta moves indoors to the Sparkle Theatre for a 21-and-over party that runs from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. and ends with a live countdown to midnight.

General admission starts at $200 through a limited early bird offer and includes a premium open bar all evening. Reserved tables add dedicated seating, bottle service, small bites and beverages.

Mainz – October 29, 2026 -- A new documentary from ARD Wissen, "Meine Träume – Was verraten sie über mich?" (My Dreams – What Do They Reveal About Me?), is streaming now in the ARD Mediathek. It asks whether people are helpless against their nightmares or can learn to shape them.

Nightmares affect 3 to 7 percent of healthy adults every week

People spend about a third of their lives asleep, and they dream even if they don't remember it. According to the film, roughly 3 to 7 percent of healthy adults have at least one nightmare a week. People with mental illness or trauma have them far more often. A so-called nightmare disorder can be severely distressing, because fear and negative feelings from sleep can spill into daily life.

Hamburg – October 29, 2026 -- NDR television chef Zora Klipp starts a six-part culinary road trip through northern Germany on Friday, October 30, at 9:15 p.m. on NDR Fernsehen. The series "Zora schmeckt's – Zu Gast in ..." runs weekly and is also available in the ARD Mediathek.

Six towns, six food scenes

Klipp visits Lüneburg, St. Peter-Ording, Bad Zwischenahn, Wismar, Goslar and Nordhorn. Each 30-minute episode covers regional specialties, unusual restaurant concepts and the people who shape a town's food culture. She describes herself as a cook and a thorough northerner who loves food.

Along the way she stops at restaurants, cafés, delicatessens, coffee roasteries, smokehouses, bars and breweries. She also goes behind the scenes and cooks and works alongside the locals herself. The episodes cover sweet and savory classics, modern takes on them, the craft behind the dishes, and what gives a place its flavor.