A few years ago Yuhang and I saw Portland-based cat-eye bespectacled singer-songwriter Laura Veirs play at Tacheles. During some inter-song banter she mentioned that her neighbour, Jason Lutes, was slowly creating a “beautiful” historical comic about Weimar Berlin. Sounded cool, so I looked it up. It was cool. It was great.
Lutes decided in [...]
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I don’t get it. Self-appointed visionary, trend-spotter and general-audience opinionator Thomas Friedman had the most-emailed article on the New York Times yesterday (it’s holding third today). Friedman, standing in for Maureen Dowd, simply comments on two other articles he’s read recently, one he saw in his own paper about the Citigroup bail-out that irritated him, [...]
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I had the pleasure of seeing TV on the Radio play last night to a sold-out crowd at the cavernous SO36 club on Oranienstrasse, where German punk was born. Not that TVotR is necessarily a punk band, but I’d wager they know something about German music history. Seriously. I’m a very recent fan, having heard [...]
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If it’s challenge to find proper Chinese food in Berlin, finding authentic Korean is a heroic quest. My Korean-American neighbor has been telling me for years about this place near Nollendorfplatz with killer Korean, supposedly the best in town. A few months ago, Yuhang and I, thinking we knew which place he meant, stopped at [...]
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There was a nutty little piece in the weekend Berliner Zeitung about Berlin’s three “mountain” peaks, all 115 metres above sea level and all on the outskirts of town: the Große Müggelberg in Köpenick, Teufelsberg in Wilmersdorf and Ahrensfelder Berge in Marzahn. The former is a 100% natural product of ice age continent-smashing and the [...]
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No comment accept that, yes, I did eat them. It was the weekend.
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Sorry for the bad pun, but I’m not quite awake (after getting to bed at 8am this morning) and haven’t even begun to process all the post-election news today, but I still feel giddy and intoxicated from what happened last night — and that’s not just post-party chemical residue talking: I think I’m nursing a [...]
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Last week Slate had a piece about the simultaneous elation and dread building up in The Liberal Media on the hyperbolic task of reporting the upcoming Obama rapture, when they’ve already exhausted their best superlatives covering the campaign. Writer Jack Shafer reckons the burden must be heaviest for those most shamelessly infatuated with Obama, like [...]
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