How We Were Chased out of Görlitz: Wes Anderson Meets Reality
I must admit that the idea of spending the weekend in Görlitz came up after watching the film, Grand Budapest
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Why Theatre, and its ‘Idiots’, Still Matter in Today’s Russia
In Moscow, the Gogol Centre has produced a loose adaptation of Lars von Trier’s 1998 film Idioterne (The Idiots, or
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240 Hours of MEAT
The installation MEAT, upcoming from 3-13 April 2014 at the F.I.N.D. festival, an international theatre week in the German
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Is Berlin ‘Over’? Yawn.
Every year or so, without fail, the press pull at that dependable news hook: Is Berlin ‘over’? Is Berlin ‘no
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Cocktails in a Communist Beauty Salon
What must be Berlins’ best cocktail bar is located in what was once a Communist beauty parlour on breezy Karl-Marx-Allee.
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You Know You’re a Savvy Expat Berliner When…
How long have you been in Berlin? And how good is your local knowledge? Take The Needle’s quiz. Looking back
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Berlin’s Disco Snacks
The craze surrounding Street Food Thursday makes me wonder why people choose the claustrophobic crowds at Markthalle 9 over one
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Is Spring Coming? and The Attacks on Swans in Berlin
You wake to a blue sky, the temperature rises, and you dare to say Spring is coming. What do the
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Review: German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, at the Berlin Film Festival
At this year’s Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival), on Sunday, the Imperial War Museum in London premiered their restoration of the
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Hookers and Hot Chocolate, at Grosz
It is intriguing, odd, and audacious for such a bourgeois Berlin coffeehouse to name itself after the great satirist of
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KaterHolzig Poisoned, But Not Down
‘We’ve been poisoned by the mainstream ‘, say the folks at KaterHolzig on their website. Yet another classic of old Berlin––this
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