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    Nite Life/Nite Death

    D. Strauss' insomnia = the depletion of your trust fund. Good luck.

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    The News Kraut

    Konrad Werner digests today's top Teutonic news and regurgitates it as a pellet.

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    Vexed & Perplexed

    And you thought you hated Berlin? Here's a bit more to complain about.

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    Amok-Mama

    Jacinta Nandi's gonna trample on your beliefs on a daily basis.

Vexed & Perplexed
Monday, 15 Feb 2010

Berlin on ice

For the last month and a half the pavement in front of my daughter's school has been a skating rink. The final 50 metre stretch to the school door is, simply put, dangerous. And every morning, as I dr ... read more
Friday, 22 Jan 2010
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13 homeless dead so far this winter

Thirteen people without shelter have died so far this winter in Germany. Organisations like Motz, which runs a quality homeless paper and emergency shelter in Schöneberg, urgently need new funds. ... read more
Wednesday, 20 Jan 2010
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Orignal Sin at Bread and Butter

Since Cookies Club went all dull, a Tuesday night in Berlin doesn't get any more decadent than this: The opening party of the Winter Bread and Butter tradeshow for selected brands in Tempelhof Airport ... read more
Saturday, 16 Jan 2010
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A sad day for Berlin beer

Berliner Bürgerbräu, Berlin's last independent brewery, has been bought by the Radeberger group, owned by the Oetker, Germany's food megacorp famous for frozen pizza and baking powder. The g ... read more
Wednesday, 06 Jan 2010

Anti-gentrication kit

Sick of rising rents? Then watch this video of valuable tips from a Hamburg activist group to help bring down property values and scare away high-income residents. It's in German, so I've summarized ... read more
Wednesday, 23 Dec 2009
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Your 11 tons of CO2

Something to ponder over Christmas: the breakdown of what causes the 11 tons of CO2 per person to enter the atmosphere every year (courtesy of the Federal Office of Statistics via taz.de): Consumptio ... read more
Tuesday, 22 Dec 2009
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Buy your Christmas Eve at the Ebay of sex

Christmas Eve with a female student in her twenties aka Studigirl85 is going for 810 Euros. Sausages, potato salad (in line with German tradition) and intercourse included. Virgins go for around six g ... read more
Monday, 21 Dec 2009
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A lake in Mitte?

Sadly the pompous, pointless Stadtschloss has been given the go-ahead, though it could take ten years before the thing is completed. Meanwhile the Senat is powering ahead with ideas for what to do wi ... read more
Tuesday, 15 Dec 2009

The use of vigilante snot in citizen policing

Germany has a fine, long tradition of citizen policing: the Blockwart of the 1930s and 1940s ensured nobody in your appartment block did naughty things like hide Jews or slag off Hitler during an air ... read more
Thursday, 10 Dec 2009
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BBC Dinosaurs

I dislike O2 World about as much as I dislike Alexa, but this is good: the BBC live dinosaur show. For three days till December 12. ... read more
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