Trying to Explain Eurovision to Americans

The 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest is underway! The weeklong competition is being held at the Wiener Stadhalle in Vienna, Austria. H...

Bratislava is a beautiful and charming city. The people are friendly, and most spoke enough English to allow for a conversation.   Thing...

No one in London knows who Electro Velvet is.  Electro Velvet is representing the UK at Eurovision next week. Brits have a complicated r...

"La La Love" by Ivi Adamou is still a very popular song. Ivi competed in 2012's Eurovision (which Sweden's very own Lo...

We have a winner from Sweden! Congratulations to Måns Zelmerlöw for his crushing victory over the competition. And great job, Sweden, fo...

I am lucky. I live in Chicago where approximately 0.07% of the population knows what Eurovision is. But I have surrounded myself with a grou...

After five weeks of watching amazing and/or insane Swedish pop music, we now have twelve lucky finalists. So who will not win? That...