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Imants Kalniņš celebrates 85: wants lily-of-the-valley, but will receive Liepāja Metalurgs home game attendance numbers
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Imants Kalniņš celebrates 85: wants lily-of-the-valley, but will receive Liepāja Metalurgs home game attendance numbers

While Riga composers celebrate jubilees with champagne and orchids, our genius wants only lily-of-the-valley. That's as Liepāja-like as going to a hockey game on a windy May evening.

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Liepāja Residents Discover Mediterranean in 'Great Amber': Six Courses and Nobody Froze
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Liepāja Residents Discover Mediterranean in 'Great Amber': Six Courses and Nobody Froze

While Riga is still searching for restaurants with heated bathrooms, Liepāja is already preparing Mediterranean dinners with wines that cost more than monthly utility bills.

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Līva Village Festival: 240 Craftsmen Try to Sell Wool Socks to People Who Only Have Two Euros
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Līva Village Festival: 240 Craftsmen Try to Sell Wool Socks to People Who Only Have Two Euros

The XXII Līva Village Festival promises to be bigger than Eurovision — if Eurovision featured yarn spinning and the jury judged knitting. While Riga wonders what to do on weekends, 240 masters in Liepāja prepare to prove that homemade crafts are the future.

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Rainis High School Receives European Recognition Again: This Time for Digital Skills, Not Rock Music Teaching
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Rainis High School Receives European Recognition Again: This Time for Digital Skills, Not Rock Music Teaching

While Riga schools are still learning how to turn on computers, Liepaja's Rainis High School receives eTwinning status for the fourth time. Baiba Suseja personally came to thank them for being able to use the internet.

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So many foreigners gather at RTU Liepāja Academy that even Liepāja Theatre starts speaking English
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So many foreigners gather at RTU Liepāja Academy that even Liepāja Theatre starts speaking English

While Riga is still figuring out how to welcome one foreigner, in Liepāja we spent three days teaching 1,000 people from 19 countries how to properly pronounce 'vējš' (wind).

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Karosta Festival Ends: Youth Invited to Photograph How Everything Falls Apart, But Beautifully
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Karosta Festival Ends: Youth Invited to Photograph How Everything Falls Apart, But Beautifully

The final Karosta festival seeks young people who will document with cameras how everything in their neighborhood is crumbling, but with an artistic touch.

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Liepāja presents itself in Vilnius: our cultural program is so good that even Lithuanians understand it
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Liepāja presents itself in Vilnius: our cultural program is so good that even Lithuanians understand it

While Riga is still thinking about what to do with 2027, Liepāja is already showing Lithuania how to properly organize cultural events.

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Liepāja prepares for Europe Day with the only event the wind can't ruin
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Liepāja prepares for Europe Day with the only event the wind can't ruin

On May 9th at the Great Amber, there will be a four-hour European values marathon featuring cyberattack simulations and tandem bicycles.

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Ministry of Culture reveals genius plan: transform Liepāja into museum capital for 12 thousand
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Ministry of Culture reveals genius plan: transform Liepāja into museum capital for 12 thousand

The Ministry of Culture has decided to entrust the Baltic Museology Promotion Association with 12,465 euros to transform Liepāja into a summer school center. Riga residents will be forced to come to us to study.

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Easter Bunny Dictatorship Uncovered on Horse Island: Residents Forced to Roll Eggs
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Easter Bunny Dictatorship Uncovered on Horse Island: Residents Forced to Roll Eggs

Liepāja Puppet Theater rabbit has seized power on Horse Island, forcing visitors to participate in mandatory Easter activities.

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Russian press circulation drops faster than temperature on Liepāja beach in winter
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Russian press circulation drops faster than temperature on Liepāja beach in winter

Over five years, the circulation of newspapers published in other languages in Latvia has shrunk from 13 to 7 million. Experts wonder - either people are learning Latvian, or they've simply switched to TikTok.

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Liepāja's Ecumenical Way of the Cross: The Only March in the City That Doesn't End at Rose Square
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Liepāja's Ecumenical Way of the Cross: The Only March in the City That Doesn't End at Rose Square

Good Friday's traditional Way of the Cross proved that Liepāja residents can walk in silence even without using their mobile phones.

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