Oktoberfest

On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living


Robert Fuller

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

No Democrats! No Chocolate!

Susan L. Travis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


Susan L. Travis

In the New Mexico village of Ruidoso, a conflict between the local chapter of the Democratic Women and the annual Oktoberfest organizers is brewing.

Taliban To Germany: Leave Afghanistan Or We'll Attack Oktoberfest

The Christian Science Monitor | David Montero | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


The Taliban have a new target: beer and bratwurst. In perhaps their most bizarre threat to date, Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have threatened to...

Terror Threats In Germany Prompt Flight Ban Over Oktoberfest

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


BERLIN — German authorities banned all flights over Munich's annual Oktoberfest beer festival on Saturday after a series of Islamic terror threa...

Imagine a Great Beer City

Gregory Daurer | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver


Gregory Daurer

It's unlikely that any other American city has ever gone as far out of its way to position itself as The Great Beer City in quite the way that Denver is going about it through this next week.

24 Oktoberfest Beers Get A Taste Test

The New York Times | Eric Asimov | Posted 11.01.2008 | Style


Oktoberfest must have beer, and plenty of it, to go along with all that food. And so, appearing right about now in bars and shops near you are the sea...

Oktoberfest Opens In Munich

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Munich's mayor joyously hammered a tap into Oktoberfest's first barrel of beer, opening the annual drinking spree Saturday with the traditional cry of...