Seems to have the U.S. at the top, the first time in 80 years. Of course, it won’t count psychologically if Canada beats the U.S. in hockey tonight. And look at Germany up there.

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Very Basement Tapes Dylan, this recording, not least the lyrics. I love it.
Zookeeper - Snow in Berlin
There’s a cold German in a bar in Berlin
With the blueprints of an architect still searching through
His pockets for a dream-maker or a chance-taker
Or the will he should have written by now
But he’s been thinking bout them ships sinking
For [...]

Some things are better unimproved, un-messed-with. Case in point: zombies. I prefer the old style, slow, lurching, shuffling kind. Sure, the new running zombies are scarier because they can catch up with you—whereas you can just walk away from a slow one—but, as Brent McKnight rightfully says, the slower ones are arguably scarier because they’ll [...]

The United States is—so says Klaus F. Zimmerman, convincingly.

In case you wondered why the ice started to melt…
First solo exhibition in Berlin by London-based Swedish artist and photographer Sara Young.
Friday, February 19, 19:00-23:00 Uhr @ Galerie ZeitZone
Adalbertstr. 79 [map]

Just a few weeks ago (it seems a lot longer) we—the quintet of my sister Rebecca, her soon-to-be husband Jorge, their college friend Katie, Yuhang and I—found ourselves driving along the coast of Santa Cruz, California in search of nothing, which is to say without serious responsibilities apart from eventually getting to the beach and [...]

SLAB Magazine critiques one of the more obvious design flaws of the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz, one that’s been super evident this frosty winter.
Metal floor panels in a plaza? Excuse the parlance, but what in shit-fuckery were Murphy/Jahn Architects thinking? Here’s a little hint from your friends at SLAB, free of charge: metal is [...]

Since it’s technically still last year, by Chinese standards (by a hair), I will allow myself a few seconds to lovingly, obsessively and nerdishly list my favourite ten tracks from the past 365 days… It was a good year for music. I promise that all these tunes will quicken your heart and stiffen your ear [...]

Tip magazine, the Berlin biweekly, had a cover story last December about where to get the best dumplings (Teigtaschen) in town. Having lived here for a decade now (as of November), I can confirm that this is something that has definitely changed for the better—ten years ago, just having a pile of noodles was enough [...]

One of the better round-ups on the literature from the recent economic implosion makes a simple but striking point. It cuts to the core of the big snow job 99% of the public underwent in past, say, decade of financial and political bamboozlement.
What was easy to convey was that something about the past ten years [...]