On radio addiction, music for wanderers and #resisting in Berlin
Like loving the outdoors, live music and the ritual of brewing a pourover coffee, my involvement with radio isn’t something I found at random in adult life. More like: It […]
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Elegy for the Starman: Goodbye to Bowie
On average, over 150,000 human beings die each day. But on January 10th, one of those people was David Bowie, and such was the creative brilliance of this artist, that […]
#Heimkommen: Expat holidays & sobbing over supermarket ads
Once again, it’s December in Berlin – the month in which snow falls and Christmas markets spring up like mushrooms, the scent of Glühwein wafting from every corner store. A […]
Larkin Poe bring Deep South grit to Berlin
Act to watch: Soulful sister rock duo Larkin Poe. Rebecca Lovell and Megan Lovell found time in their whirlwind tour schedule, supporting artists like Conor Oberst and Elvis Costello, to […]
The other Karneval: Culture goes underground
Subversive, subterranean, sublime: While almost all of Berlin was over in Kreuzberg watching samba dancers at Karneval der Kulturen, I was exploring a lesser-known festival of alternative culture and living […]
Brewing glory at the German AeroPress Championships
My hometown of Seattle and my adopted metropolis Berlin have much in common. Aside from the often cloudy weather, widespread love of plaid and strong music scenes, both cities have […]
Tokio Hotel acoustic in Magdeburg
The Germans like to keep Sundays chill. Long brunches, a newspaper on the balcony, an extended Spaziergang, not too much excitement – they have mastered this art. I’ve learned to […]
Rest in peace, Sewol
South Korea is on edge. A government official has been sacked for initiating an employee group picture at the port where the Sewol victims’ parents were waiting. A politician has been demonized […]
Legend of Nein: The man behind the monocle
What Grumpy Cat is to the Internet’s feline lovers, @NeinQuarterly is to Germanistik appreciators everywhere. The endearingly pessimistic Twitter feed, created by University of Pennsylvania professor Eric Jarosinski, has long […]
Techno temple Magdalena ‘on deathbed,’ calls for aid
When I first got to Berlin, a wide-eyed college kid drinking in the vibrant metropolis, one of the first things my program showed us was a film called “Berlin Calling.” […]
Boston Marathon and its aftermath: Uncertainty and “what ifs”
When I heard the first boom, I thought maybe it was a celebratory cannon. Boston adheres to a lot of odd colonial traditions that Midwesterners like me just don’t understand. […]
Herrenmagazin talk touring, surviving as musicians, love-hate for GEMA
They sing of failed love, disillusionment, and despite all the pessimism and cynicism of postmodern society, a certain stubborn tenacity of spirit. They have inherited the mantle of Hamburger Schule […]
Berlin art scene blooming with transatlantic eclecticism
Berlin is all about defying labels, fusing cultural movements together, being many things at once. A bartender in a techno club wearing fashion from her own international vintage boutique store. […]
Lifeboat Deutschland for sinking eurozone—an outsider’s perspective
As the eurozone continues to flounder under the looming specter of insolvency in the southern nations, more and more of these countries’ best and brightest are preparing to jump ship—namely, […]
Nomad Nightlife: La Colombelle turns 25 in Auch
My first weekend in Auch, my housemates and I left the house around 10 p.m. on Friday itching for a taste of the town’s nightlife scene. After passing several shuttered-up […]
American artist Daryl Alexsy captures architectural impressions of Berlin
Berlin is a melting pot, a meeting of worlds. The city’s architecture is a prime example—old, stately apartment buildings, their raw brick corners gnawed by air bombardment, mingle up against […]
When wanderlust clashes with travel advisories…
I have a serious problem watching movies all the way through. Blame it on the insidious influence of Twitter and constant Internet exposure on our brains, insatiable hunger for trivial […]
Festival of Lights ignites in Berlin
The trees in the Hauptstadt are ablaze with bright fall hues, and now Berlin’s most iconic structures are as well. The Festival of Lights 2012 kicked off tonight at Potsdamer […]
I Got Censored By Anti-Dog Eating Activists…
“Stop the Dog and Cat Consumption in Korea” is a Facebook group devoted to battling dog and cat consumption in Korea. It currently has 14,329 likes and I am not […]
I’m Sick of Gangnam Style
PSY, or Jaesang Park (35), is the pride of South Korea. His song is everywhere, even in North Korea. That song with the funny music video, where people dance like […]
Literary Superhero Touches Down in New York
“We never get crowds like this except for Comicon,” said the flustered event manager at the Union Square Barnes & Noble last night. I turned around from the plum seat […]
Nightlife patrons take to streets, march before GEMA
On Thursday, Sept. 8, Berlin’s club culture gathered again in protest of the new tariff structure proposed for 2013 by the GEMA, Germany’s only significant copyright management organization for musical […]
Planned GEMA tariff reforms incite ongoing protest
The widely-reported proposed increases for 2013 in GEMA’s taxes on music clubs and nightlife venues continue to provoke outrage, counter-demonstrations and artistic protest initiatives across Deutschland. Berlin is a natural […]
Tacheles forcibly closed, artists evicted
The end of an era came yesterday for the beautiful, crumbling ruin in the heart of Berlin Mitte. Long a symbol of the wide-open, “arm aber sexy” spirit of post-unification […]
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