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Photo by Alex Yoku (2014) Used with Permission from the FIND Festival, Schaubühne, Berlin
Berlin Arts
Joseph Pearson 20/03/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin Arts
Joseph Pearson 13/03/201423/06/2018

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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Living in Berlin
Joseph Pearson 08/03/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin History
Joseph Pearson 07/03/201423/06/2018

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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Living in Berlin
Joseph Pearson 27/02/201423/06/2018

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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Foodie Berlin
Joseph Pearson 20/02/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin and German Politics
Joseph Pearson 13/02/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin History
Joseph Pearson 10/02/201423/06/2018

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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Foodie Berlin
Joseph Pearson 06/02/201423/06/2018

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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Places in Berlin
Joseph Pearson 02/02/201423/06/2018

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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Blog Posts on The Needle
Joseph Pearson 20/12/2013

Happy Holidays From The Needle––See you in January!

Have a beautiful holiday, see you in January with more posts! Love from Berlin!  

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