Berlin
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...
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.”
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...
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...
Inappropriate Dressing and Undressing
Who knows, maybe Funny Van Money will start a new trend of suburban al fresco stripping that will sweep the nation. It would certainly liven up living in the goddamn crabgrass.
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...
A Night Out with an Anarchist
I introduced my anarchist friend to my other friends. This proved to be awkward.
London's Ubiquitous Cocks
My trip to London was very trippy, starting with prison and ending in a former tranny brothel in a sweets factory.
Back in Berlin
I guess all those mass executions, anti-Semitic pogroms, and bloody, counterrevolutionary purges can really age you.
Detlev Lives!
Thirty years ago, Thomas Haustein starred in one film. Then he never appeared on-screen again.