LONG-FORM INTERVIEW, Antoine Bernhard and Max Moeschler | Snarky Puppy is undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary music groups. Founded in Texas in 2004, the three-time Grammy Award-winning band explores a unique musical genre at the crossroads of jazz, funk, R&B, and so many other styles. As part of the «Autumn of Music» event organized by the Montreux Jazz Festival, we had the chance to meet the three band members, who were at the Montreux Palace for the occasion: Michael League (bass and bandleader), Bill Laurance (keyboards), and Justin Stanton (trumpet and keyboards). It was an exclusive conversation in a magnificent setting! Here, we’ve tried to capture the most interesting parts of our discussion.

LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Jonas Follonier | He's one of Switzerland's leading politicians in the fight against Islamism. Even if he doesn't like the word «combat» (he prefers the word «cause»), Mohamed Hamdaoui has made it one of his priority themes, making himself a highly committed player in the debate, even if it means over-emotionalizing. His background no doubt has something to do with it: born in the Hoggar, this Tuareg loved a woman who, in the 1980s, was kidnapped by Algerian Islamists because she refused to wear the veil. These sowers of terror beheaded her. The murder in France of Professor Samuel Paty by a radicalized Muslim using the same modus operandi shook him to the core. Interview with a former socialist turned PDC, who doesn't consider Switzerland immune to political Islam.

The Trousp questionnaire by Frédéric Pajak

At the heart of England and its divides

The UDC VS issued a press release on Thursday, October 22.

Meeting with two Neuchâtel piano teachers

After the best-selling Winter in Sokcho (2016) and The Pachinko Balls (2018), Elisa Shua Dusapin gave birth to a third novel last August: Vladivostok Circus (2020), which tells the story of Nathalie, a costume designer who travels to a circus in Vladivostok, Russia, on assignment. She has to create outfits for a trio of artists practicing the Russian barre. But between language barriers, shyness and downright discomfort, Nathalie struggles to carve out a place for herself in the group. A group that would represent society, in all its complex human relationships? Meet the author to find out more about her novel and herself.

LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Ivan Garcia | Historian of religions, journalist and director of the Labor et Fides publishing house, Matthieu Mégevand is a busy man in his thirties. He is currently completing a novel trilogy, published by Editions Flammarion, on the theme of creation/destruction. The first part, «La bonne vie», published in 2018, is dedicated to the poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte and his «experimental metaphysics». This first book won him the eleventh edition (2019 - 2020) of the Le Roman des Romands literary prize, awarded by school and gymnasium classes. The second part of his trilogy, published in 2019, focuses on the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and takes the reader back to Belle Epoque Paris to follow in the footsteps of this misunderstood deformed genius. As for the third part, now in the final stages of writing, it will be published in the coming years and will take as its protagonist that virtuoso of musical beauty, Mozart. To discuss this ambitious trilogy and his career as a writer, we meet Matthieu in Geneva at the «café librairie-livresse», a stone's throw from Plainpalais.

Although the profession of beer sommelier has been recognized in Switzerland for several years now, it is still largely unknown to the general public. The best way to remedy this is to meet Alain Kaehr, beer sommelier in Yverdon-les-Bains.