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MUNICH – (MunichNOW Life) -- What better way to start your day than with dancing?  The Kocherlball or “Cook’s Ball” is an early morning dance festival around the Chinese Tower in Munich’s Englischer Garten.  Get your Bavarian clothing out of the closet and get the food shopping done as the ball is this Sunday, July 18th between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m.

MUNICH -- (MunichNOW Life) -- Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter and Vice-mayor Josef Schmid made several appearances at the huge Christopher Street Day celebrations on Saturday, July 11th. The city center was packed with cheering and happy celebrants as the annual CSD parade wound its way from St Jakob Platz through the edge of Marienplatz and then around the Alstadt ring. The loop around the Gärtnerplatz center was a particular highlight. 

MUNICH -- (MunichNOW Life) -- "Munich traffic lights are tolerant" - with this motto in mind the city of Munich is upgrading some of the traffic lights Gärtnerplatz district. The conventional Ampelmännchen  (traffic light man) are being replaced by traffic light couples.

MUNICH -- (MunichNOW Life) -- The French actor Pierre Brice died at the age of 86 on the 6th of June 2015. Many will mourn, but his legacy will live on.
Secretive, righteous, and noble — this is  how the film character Winnetou, played by Pierre Brice, will be remembered by the generations of children and adults enthralled by his achievements. Pierre Brice gave the “Karl May” novels life and meaning. Brice became famous mainly in Germany; now he has died at the age of 86 in Paris from severe pneumonia.