Berlin

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  • Talking to Berlin's Hipster Defense Squad

    Berlin is often hailed as a mecca for ex-pats and creative types fed up with New York and its stratospheric cost of living. Now, as hordes of graphic designers and writers have begun gentrifying the city, locals have started a concerted attack on...

  • Remembering Curtis Harrington and His Films

    I first learned of Curtis's work through my godfather, Kenneth Anger. His trademark was surreal incongruity. He effortlessly mixed horror, black humor, and grotesque glamor in classics like What's the Matter with Helen?, Whoever Slew Auntie...

  • Just Before Dawn at a Berlin Swinger Club

    A few hours after making a boozy decision to go to a club for swingers called Zwanglos III I found myself being pressed up against a bar by a half-naked overweight woman who had taken a fancy to me. So my night was going pretty OK, in other words.

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  • The Site of Hitler’s Suicide Is Now a Playground

    By the afternoon of his suicide, Adolf Hitler hadn’t seen the sun in ten days. He had been living in a concrete bunker 28 feet below the ruins of Berlin for months. Sixty-eight years later, Berlin is almost unrecognizable, and a slide sits atop the...

  • May Day in Berlin Was a Playground for Happy Idiots

    There's something about May Day in Berlin that seems to capture the city's essence. For one day every year, the streets fill with police, bold stoners, and all sorts of idiots—idiots in bathtubs, idiots in gorilla suits, idiots who cut drugs in phone...

  • The Berlin Fotofestival's Cell Phone Contest Is Heating Up

    A few weeks ago we gave you a heads up about a new contest coinciding with the Berlin Fotofestival 2013 seeking submissions from the world's best cell phone photographers. Well, the organizers sent us another batch of submissions, and the bar has been...

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  • Saturn Dogs: Noise and Sushi Dinner in Berlin

    This multi-level approach fits well in Berlin, where the idea of a band already drifted away from traditional musical and instrumental concepts years ago, and where the art scene has been forced into adapting the scrappy attitudes and strategies of...

  • Berlin Fotofestival Wants to See Your Pics

    Think your cellphone photos are pretty good? Do you have by far the best Instagram of all your buddies? That's cool, but why don't you prove it? This year, the Berlin Fotofestival is hosting a contest and asking you to submit your best mobile...

  • Berliners Are Waging a War Against Gentrification

    It’s been 23 years since the Berlin Wall was demolished, and now the bulldozers are back. But this time, no one’s clapping. When word got out that a developer was planning to build a luxury apartment complex right on top of the preserved section of the...