Berlin on Vice
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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 booths, and idiots who parade dogs around in prams. Full story
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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 raised to a height that woul… Full story
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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 musicians out of economic neces… Full story
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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 photography. Full story
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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 wall (known as the East Sid… Full story
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The Anti-Jukebox Musical: ‘Peaches Does Herself’
This Sunday, the HAU Theater in Berlin hosts the European premiere of Peaches's rock opera cum feature film, 'Peaches Does Herself.' The film tells a semiautobiographical tale of Peaches's rise from a bedroom tinkerer to a provocative and revered international performer in 22 son… Full story
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Resist Control: A Guide to Riding Berlin Public Transportation For Free
Riding without a ticket, or schwarzfahren, is something of a national pastime in Germany, and probably nowhere more so than in Berlin, whose citizenry the reigning mayor, Klaus Wowereit, once famously described as “poor but sexy.” Full story
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Going Gray with NOMEANSNO
Nomeansno’s music might be described as a virtuoso mixture of progressive rock, punk, and jazz fusion. In their 33 years of prolific existence, the Wright brothers have seen punk rock, new wave, post-punk, hardcore, indie rock, alternative and grunge go by, all the while cheerful… Full story
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Berlin Story: Adieu, Tacheles
This is typical of the strategy used in dealing with squatters: offering a ten or twenty year amnesty period, after which the original occupants have moved on, passing the torch to a younger, more complacent generation, who are easily steam-rolled in the name of progress. Full story
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Artists No Longer Welcome in Berlin
What Berlin does have going for it is great ambience. It is really fun to just hang out. So the pressure becomes intense, with everyone struggling to do the bare minimum they possibly can and yet still qualify as creative, thereby maximizing the time they have available for going… Full story
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