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Berlin Arts
Joseph Pearson 25/11/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin and German Politics
Joseph Pearson 17/11/201423/06/2018

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 History
Joseph Pearson 08/11/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin and German Politics
Joseph Pearson 06/11/201423/06/2018

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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Living in Berlin
Joseph Pearson 03/11/201423/06/2018

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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Living in Berlin
Joseph Pearson 13/10/201423/06/2018

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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Gay and Queer Berlin
Joseph Pearson 06/10/201423/06/2018

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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Berlin Arts
Joseph Pearson 29/09/201423/06/2018

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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Opinion and Politics
Joseph Pearson 31/08/201423/06/2018

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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Blog Posts on The Needle
Joseph Pearson 24/08/201425/08/2014

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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Places in Berlin
Joseph Pearson 29/07/201423/06/2018

36 Hours in Berlin (and not a minute more)

Did you ever wonder at the intentions of tourists who come to Berlin as voyeurs to the horrors of the

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