• Roos Van Acker

    Face of Flanders — Roos Van Acker

    17 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    Roos Van Acker is a TV presenter, a Studio Brussel DJ, Humo magazine's favourite cover girl and the 185th choice for Greatest Belgian of all time. Before breaking into every form of media you can think of, Van Acker, 32, sang for the 1990s pop group Eden. Now she's gone back to her roots on a tour of Flanders with an ad hoc band, performing songs about broken hearts. We caught up with her between tour dates, radio programmes and meetings about her future with television station VT4.
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  • The Aalst Carnival's parade

    Throw your onions

    17 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    Since mediaeval times, the citizens of Aalst have taken to the streets once a year, dressed in colourful disguises, to poke fun at their politicians, party like crazy and show the rest of us how to celebrate Carnival.
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  • Matrimonio made in heaven: De Sica at Cinematek

    The alternative Valentine

    17 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    Most people hate Valentine’s Day. It’s not because they hate love or romance, oh no. It’s just that they hate it when it’s forced.
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  • A Joelle Tuerlinckx illusion

    Faces of Flanders

    17 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    The prestigious Culture Awards from the Flemish Community were announced last week in Hasselt by culture minister Bert Anciaux. The 13 awards to Flemish artists cover a wide range of activities, from cartoon strips to Baroque music. Each winner, one of three nominees in each category, takes home €12,500 and a bronze statuette specially commissioned from sculptor Johan Tahon.
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  • The mesmerising beauty of ruins

    Frozen memory

    17 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    Ruined buildings are generally thought of as being of interest to tourists, historians and archaeologists. But there is a long tradition of ruins in art, dating back to the Renaissance, when interest in antique Roman and Greek architecture and statuary revived, and the vestiges of the past came to be regarded as relics of a better, purer age.
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  • The clothmaker's hall and belfry

    A devil of a town

    11 Feb 2025 by Flanders Today
    Located slap bang in the middle of the triangle formed by Bruges, Ghent and Kortrijk, it's inevitable that the town of Tielt struggled to make a mark on the West Flanders scene. Skilled craftsmen were — and still are — attracted to the three nearby cities in search of more or better work. Today's tourists frequently do something similar, bypassing the burg of about 20,000 on their way to visit its more famous neighbours.
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  • Fashionista

    4 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    You have to be careful not to pass right by the newest jewellery boutique in Antwerp: it’s housed on the first floor of a building, right above a clothing shop. Not the most conventional choice of location, but, then again, Limited Edition Jewellery is anything but conventional.
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  • Flemish comic artists in France

    Flemish strips in France

    4 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    “Belgium is already on the map of comic book land, but we wanted to put the new generation of Flemish comics in the spotlight!”
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  • three proud tubists from Aartselaar

    I'm with the band

    4 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    In cities, towns and villages the length and breadth of Flanders, the sounds of their rehearsals emanate from cafés, from cultural centres, from sports halls. Their concerts are frequently sold out, and they compete at - and frequently win - European and global competitions.
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  • Ambiorix watches over the Basilica of Our Lady

    Living in the past

    4 Feb 2025 by Ad Min
    When a town promotes itself as the oldest in Belgium, it’s tempting to wonder how much evidence of this claim is still visible. Visit Tongeren, and its credentials are right in front of you: city walls that date from the first century; a Roman archaeological site from the fourth.
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