Why Are Anglo Businesses Closing in Kreuzberg?
Hudson’s, the English cake shop we blogged soon after its opening, closed its doors on Sunday. It’s the third English-speaking
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Berlin’s Ghetto Bus: the M41
On a Friday sunny morning I see a large group waiting at the M41 bus stop on Urbanstraße on the
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Xenophobia Posing as Social Activism in Berlin
Berlin woke up the over the weekend to an attack on a business on Rykestraße. A business was defaced with
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The New Berlin Wall Protests
To see people protesting in front of the Berlin Wall, as they have done this week, is not something new.
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Berlinale Wrap-Up 2013: Forum Films
On Cuvrystr. in Kreuzberg there is a famous street art mural of a man chained to his own wealth, a
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Berlinale Wrap-Up 2013: Competition Films
The Needle is back after my winter break, and in time to catch the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, or
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You Ain’t No Berliner
Another nasty sticker pasted around Berlin telling you to go home. Of so you think. Is it meant––yet again, in
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No Winter Badeschiff
Every winter something remarkable has happened in Berlin. The Badeschiff (or “swimming boat”) is an innovative pool that floats in
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Blaming Hipsters for Gentrification in Neukölln?
Imagine you are in a Berlin bar, at your most vulnerable at the urinal or bathroom stall, and you read
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The Crisis From Berlin
It’s with relief that I return to Berlin from disheartening trips around Europe, but I also come back angry. The
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Nazi Resistors: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Zionskirche
At the age of 25, in 1931, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became the vicar of the Protestant Zionskirche in Berlin Mitte. What
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