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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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 […]
Berlin liebt dich: 35. Christopher Street Day
June 22 was Berlin’s 35th annual Christopher Street Day, or Pride Parade, and it was just as vibrant and beautiful as I remembered. Crazy to think that two years ago, […]
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 […]
