King Ludwig supposedly lost his mind listening to Wagner. You can lose yours getting down to DJ Kishka. Get crazy, it’s Oktoberfest at Sterle’s, 1401 East 55th St., Cleveland. At 2 p.m. Saturday, the Old World and classic Cleveland joint will roll out a Bavarian-flavored bash on its bier garden. Prosit – it comes with an all-you-drink-beer deal, a buffet of sausages, cheese and pretzels, and live music. The $40 ticket also gets you a collector’s bier mug. Call 216-881-4181. Or go to: Read more [...]

The search for Yam Levi, 23, an Israeli tourist who went missing in Germany some 10 days ago, came to a devastating end on Thursday after several nerve-wracking days. Levi, 23, from the town of Lapid, near Modi'in, apparently suffered a fatal accident while hiking in the southern part of the Bavaria region. Her parents were called to the local police station on Thursday to identify their daughter's body. Levi's body was found by a German police search team at a ski site near the village Oberstdorf, Read more [...]

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King Ludwig supposedly lost his mind listening to Wagner. You can lose yours getting down to DJ Kishka. Get crazy, it’s Oktoberfest at Sterle’s, 1401 East 55th St., Cleveland. At 2 p.m. Saturday, the Old World and classic Cleveland joint will roll out a Bavarian-flavored bash on its bier garden. Prosit – it comes with an all-you-drink-beer deal, a buffet of sausages, cheese and pretzels, and live music. The $40 ticket also gets you a collector’s bier mug. Call 216-881-4181. Or go to: Read more [...]

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her struggling coalition partners were fighting over votes Friday in the final stretch of campaigning for Germany's election as polls pointed to a tight outcome.Merkel is heavily favored to emerge from Sunday's election with a third term, but her hopes of continuing the current coalition of her conservatives and the pro-market Free Democrats are in the balance.A ZDF television poll conducted Wednesday and Thursday showed a statistically Read more [...]