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'Show must go on': Stranded in Europe, Boston orchestra improvises, ends on high note
The Boston Symphony Orchestra might want to consider naming its next album "Songs in the Key of A" — as in airport, abandoned and Amsterdam. The renowned orchestra very nearly missed the last stop on its 12-concert, eight-city European tour when it got stuck in ...
Dutch police grill suspect in stabbings of two Americans in alleged terrorist attack at station
The U.S. State Department offered help Sunday to investigators in the Netherlands who are treating the stabbings of two American tourists at Amsterdam's main railway station as a possible extremist attack. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the U.S. was "ready to assist Dutch authorities ...
Panic in Amsterdam station after double stabbing at train station
Two people were stabbed at Amsterdam's busy Central Station on Friday before the alleged attacker was shot and wounded, Dutch police said. Witnesses described scenes of panic as gunshots rang out and thousands of commuters and tourists were evacuated from the rail terminus shortly after ...
New Amsterdam government determined to tame tourism with restrictions on Airbnb and 'beer bikes'
Amsterdam unveiled plans on Wednesday to rein in tourism, reflecting the dissatisfaction of many residents who feel the city's centuries-old center has been overrun. The leading Green Left party and other parties negotiating a new municipal government after a local election in March vowed to ...
Tattoo artist Gakkin leaves his mark in Amsterdam
Gakkin, a native of Wakayama and now a resident of Amsterdam, draws freehand, forgoing modern stencil machines to work directly on the body.
The foundation maintaining the Amsterdam house where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis during World War II said Thursday that it had bought another property where her family lived from 1934 to 1942. But the Anne Frank Foundation said it had no plans to convert ...
MUFG set to pick Amsterdam as post-Brexit hub for EU investment banking
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. has chosen Amsterdam as a base for its investment-banking business in the European Union after the U.K. leaves the bloc. The firm's securities unit has decided to apply for a license to establish a subsidiary in the Dutch city, it ...
Art festival lights up Amsterdam in dark winter
As a canal boat slides along Amsterdam's elegant Herengracht canal, a man walking over a bridge pushes down and pulls up on a bicycle pump. As he does, a model tulip — its flower glowing purple — rises sedately from beneath the water. The art ...
