What You Can Learn From Porn, at Berlin’s Gay* Museum.
A Preview of Porn That Way at the Schwules* Museum, Berlin. From 6 December 2014 to 31 March 2015. The
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Street Art, on City Streets
Bear with me and figure out the riddle. If you’ve ever moved out of a rented apartment here in Berlin,
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How Dangerous is Berlin?
‘The problem is the false sense of safety that hangs over this city’, I tell the police officer, and he agrees
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Berlin is Still Divided, 25 Years After the Fall of the Wall
In the news, there will be plenty of celebrating the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. But for many
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The Snowden Premiere in Berlin, and Why Citizenfour Was Made in this City
Tonight was the Berlin premiere of Laura Poitras’s film about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour. Before the director was invited to the
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Berlin’s Vietnamese Community, and the Dong Xuan Center
Getting to the Dong Xuan Center means seeing how big and diverse Berlin can be. Taking the M8 tram line out
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Turks but not Berliners?
I’m writing today because of a flabbergasting interview with a linguistic researcher from the Berlin Technical University that appeared in
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Dumb or Malicious?: The Grindr Installation in Kreuzberg
The Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven’s pop-up action, ‘Wanna Play? Love in Times of Grindr’, has been brought to a close after
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Goodbye to Berlin? La JohnJoseph’s ‘Trial Separation’ and his New Novel.
Berlin’s beloved performance artist and novelist, La JohnJoseph (also known as the ‘boy hero of pop’ Alexander Geist), has left Berlin
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How Worried Should We Be About Russia?
31.08.2014 From Berlin, Russia is a 7-hour drive. The Ukraine is only a little farther by car. And sometimes I
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Welcome back from the Summer! The Needle Fall Preview
Where has the summer gone? Cool temperatures, that hint of the autumnal, bringing a jacket for the evenings, students returning
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