What Berlin Looks Like After Paris
Those first hours after arriving in a European capital from another are the most ripe for making comparisons. Especially if
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Falling Out of Love: Obama and the View from Berlin
Things are rough these days between Germany and the USA. But I wonder whether Germans were ever really in love
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Berlin’s New (in Neukölln) Gay Scene
Tonight, one of Berlin’s oldest gay clubs, Schwuz, moves from the long-gentrified Bergmannkiez in West Kreuzberg to the edgy Rollbergkiez
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Busted on the BVG
Let’s say you are foolhardy enough to attempt avoiding the plaincloth ticket controllers on the BVG (Berlin transport system). Stand
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You Are Not A Citizen: Berlin’s Zones of Exclusion
A new exhibition opened tonight (1/11/13) at the Kunstquartier Bethanien called ‘In Search of Europe? Equals in an Unequal World’. It is
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Condoms or Kiddie Crack?
For a long time I thought they were condom wrappers. Little blue foil packages torn open and scattered over the
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Berlin Bleeds Your Lungs
Coming home in the wee hours from a bar in London, Madrid or New York, you might have reason to
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The Refugee Camp in Central Berlin
How did you make your way to Berlin, Ali? Overland to Libya from Mali, he paid a human smuggler almost
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The Broken Abbey at Chorin
Are you one of these Berliners, or Wahlberliners (Berliners by choice), who never goes to Brandenburg? ‘But why would you?’ a
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Stattbad Wedding: Novelty and Nostalgia
When I come to Stattbad Wedding, I feel like I’m diving into both the nostalgia for what Berlin was, and
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Kirchensteuer: A Nasty Letter from the Catholic Church
Recently, I got a nasty letter from the Catholic Church. But I’ll get to that. Let me start with the
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