Archive for October, 2009
Lance Armstrong to miss Giro, May 2010
Giro d’Italia in Amsterdam, a long distance road bicycle racing stage race (the world’s second-biggest stage race) for professional cyclists, will be held over three weeks in May. After a race along the canals in Amsterdam, the first round will finish in the Olympic Stadium (built for the Olympic Games of 1928 held in Amsterdam). [...]
Amsterdam interested in hosting Gay Games in 2017
Gay games is the world’s largest sporting and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes. Amsterdam had first hosted the Gay Games in 1998 and is interested in doing so again in 2017. Gay games proved to be a major cash earner for Amsterdam as a quarter of a million people, including 12,000 [...]
Southwest airlines restores service to Denver, Amsterdam still on wait
The air service from Bradley International Airport to Denver earlier run by Frontier Airlines had been canceled last year due to high fuel costs. Now, Southwest airlines will restore daily nonstop service to this route.
The service will include one flight a day, departing at 8:10 a.m. on all days except Saturday, when it will leave [...]
1st day of 14th Amsterdam Dance Event – A complete sell-out
Despite the global recession, the first day of the 14th Amsterdam Dance Event was a complete sold out. This full day and evening program included electronic music conference and clubbing event.
The official ADE opening Party at the Paradiso featured Simiam Mobile Disco (live) followed by Electronation featuring DJs from ViVA Music & Ovum Recordings with [...]
A study in Amsterdam concludes that living near greenery reduces illness
A team from the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam reviewed the health records of nearly 350,000 people across the Netherlands, registered with their GP for over a year, to come up with the conclusion that closeness to green spaces was very beneficial for some common disorders.
The study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology [...]
Schiphol airport to be the Bomabardier's first service centre outside N. America
It was announced today by Bombardier that the Schiphol airport of Amsterdam will be its first manufacturer-owned service center outside North America. At present, this manufacturing company’s network of company-owned service centers is now limited to six facilities in North America.
The company also declared that this new 45,640ft2 (4,240m2) European aircraft service centre will initially [...]
Rental rates slide at some prime retail locations in Amsterdam
This is for the first time in seven years that the rental rates for retail space in one quarter of Amsterdam’s prime retail locations of Kalverstraat, Leidsestraat, Heiligeweg and the Nieuwendijk has gone down, as reported in the yearly overview of shop rentals produced by realtor DTZ Zadelhoff for the municipality of Amsterdam.
However, the shopping [...]
Floating houses – A unique solution to overcrowding in Netherlands
The amount of water in and around Amsterdam is its pride and also its enemy. Now, the people of Amsterdam have set forth a unique example of using water in order to face overcrowding as about a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg.
The real estate company Monteflore has built [...]
Amsterdam houses faced with a threat of collapse
Amsterdam is basically a city of canals and very few people know that when the city was built, it was all only a swamp and unfortunately, peat is not the best conceivable supporter for brick. To overcome this problem, the residents of the city made constructions possible by driving huge wooden poles into the bog [...]
'Colony' to be showcased at IDFA, Amsterdam
The ten-day festival in Amsterdam’s city centre, IDFA, held every year showcases more than 250 creative documentaries. The festival this year will run from the 19th to the 29th of November.
For the official competition in the ‘First Appearance’ section at this International Documentary Film Festival, Fastnet Films’ feature documentary ‘Colony’, the directorial debut of Ross [...]