The Needle: Berlin

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

Things are rough these days between Germany and the USA. But I wonder whether Germans were ever really in love

Tonight, one of Berlin’s oldest gay clubs, Schwuz, moves from the long-gentrified Bergmannkiez in West Kreuzberg to the edgy Rollbergkiez

Let’s say you are foolhardy enough to attempt avoiding the plaincloth ticket controllers on the BVG (Berlin transport system). Stand

A new exhibition opened tonight (1/11/13) at the Kunstquartier Bethanien called ‘In Search of Europe? Equals in an Unequal World’. It is

For a long time I thought they were condom wrappers. Little blue foil packages torn open and scattered over the

Coming home in the wee hours from a bar in London, Madrid or New York, you might have reason to

How did you make your way to Berlin, Ali? Overland to Libya from Mali, he paid a human smuggler almost

Are you one of these Berliners, or Wahlberliners (Berliners by choice), who never goes to Brandenburg? ‘But why would you?’ a

When I come to Stattbad Wedding, I feel like I’m diving into both the nostalgia for what Berlin was, and

Recently, I got a nasty letter from the Catholic Church. But I’ll get to that. Let me start with the