The Needle: Berlin

Fireworks

Video from Canadian Berlin-based video artist Dan Hudson. I flew into Berlin on New Year’s eve, at around 8pm.

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Walking down the main boulevard of Istanbul, in Taksim, İstiklal, one is swept up in a mass of humanity that makes Berlin

The first time you come to the sauna of Stadtbad Mitte, the Bauhaus bath complex on Gartenstraße, certain things take

I traumatised a friend visiting from Los Angeles by taking her to Gay Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest, Berlin, Gay? Do all these

I am in love with Christoph. He works for the fire department and he wears yellow overalls. I heard him

It’s election time in Berlin. On the 18th of September, the seats of the House of Deputies for the Land

It’s a Wednesday evening on Kreuzberg’s Admiralbrücke in summer, and there must be 200 people here, drinking store-bought beer, smoking,

On the north side of the Paul-Lincke-Ufer in Kreuzberg, along the canal, locals gather to play boules. The Sunday traffic–-bicycles,

The commercialisation of the former Wall’s no-man’s land progresses as fast as the cranes can haul girders. Awful, says a

Today is an anniversary. The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago. Imagine a family arriving at Friedrichstraße station in