Berlin (Germany)

New Not-Gay Show On Logo!

Well, at least the cohost is gay. He's Australian Karl Schmid, and he told me all about Operation: Vacation--a 15-episode show that starts tomorrow night on Logo as part of their new strain of programming. What's the show about, Karl? The easiest way to describe it is Extreme Home Makeover, but i ... More >>

North Korea Pinch Hits for the USSR in Spy Thriller The Berlin File

'Rite of Wednesday' w/ Basteroid

'Beach Party' w/ Tom Middleton+M.AN.D.Y.

Q&A: Velvet Condom's Nicolas Isner On Berlin, Inspirational Movies, And "Dead Mannequin Pop"

Urban decay. Bathroom graffiti. Steam hissing violently from manholes. Designer fetish gear; black-lit dungeons and black vinyl pants; Saturday Night Live outré mascot Stefon. The music of Berlin duo Velvet Condom—a fastidiously gesticulating grind of snapping synthesizer presets, gloomy guit ... More >>

In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery

'Berghain and Panoramabar at the Bunker'

'Blkmarket Presents Ben Klock+DVS1'

Whither Germany?

Your Fave Dance Cuts From The Seventies

​If you remember dancing through the '70s, then you were definitely there. And DJ/journalist Paisley Dalton--who surely wasn't even alive then--has just the new CD for you. It's My Chiffon Is Wet, Darlin, which consists of "kunty kuts from NYC underground discotheques, '73-'78." Well, I jus ... More >>

Cannibal Restaurant Soon to Open in Germany?

Flimé, a new eatery supposedly to open in Berlin on September 8th, has a website like any other fancy restaurant, with dreamy music and a soft-focus intro in which words like "craft," float across the screen. But then there's the membership information, chirpily informing you that "After the medica ... More >>

Wings of Desire

Q&A: DFA's Gavin Russom on His New Project the Crystal Ark, Who Are Playing P.S.1's Warm Up Tomorrow

​Only recently has it been revealed that the DFA's secret weapon is the studio and gear whiz Gavin Russom. He was responsible for Black Dice's weird guitar FX suitcase that defined the band's sound during their tenure there. He keeps the label's studio gear in shape. He's toured the world with ... More >>

Booka Shade

The Whitest Boy Alive

LIAR, LIAR

Liars and Fol Chen in NYC

The Decade's Best Art

The most important artists were those who made the biggest impact on other artists

Last Tango in Berlin

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall, So That U2 and Jay-Z Can Play "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in Front of It

Ah, jeez--an awards show, the MTV EMAs, but also a celebration of freedom, see, because Reagan/Gorbachev/the power of music tore down the Berlin Wall twenty years ago so that Bono could branch out into rap, and New York Mayor (?!) Jay-Z could talk about fixed elections in Iran and genocide in Rwan ... More >>

Jay-Z, Get Off the $#%&ing Yankee Parade Float

He's in Berlin, the Canyon of Heroes, and at this point, probably your apartment, drinking the alcohol you were really looking forward to downing when you got home from a long day of seeing Jay-Z everywhere you fucking looked. [@NYCMayorsOffice, via Idolator]

'Auf 002 Presents Dinky'

Kuhle Wampe

'Roots of Techno'

'The Bunker'

Âme Frank

Fassbinder's 15-Hour Masterpiece

Plus Best of 2006 and Taxi tales

'Headspace'

Holland Days

Rotterdam report: Film fest hearts 16mm

Noise From the Front

For the week of December 13–19, 2006

The Art of War

Dusted-off WWII drama nails the period details

'Summer Storm'

Coke Classic

Wilder at heart: Cola versus communism in Cagney's good-natured Cold War comedy

'That Man: Peter Berlin'

Berlin Haul: Fascinating But Cautious Retro From the DDR

Traces of Kafka and Benjamin in a Bracing Set of Berlin Stories

So Minimal

DJ Richie Hawtin on Barcelona, bottle service, and Berlin

Music

Art

Listings

German Xploration, Part 1

In which Tristan journeys to Berlin to present at a sex-positive weekend

The Next Brooklyns

New York's DJs flee overseas to Berlin and Barcelona

Closely Watched Trains

Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

Rubble Love

Boulder-raised but dreaming of sausage, Schnitzel, and Alexanderplatz

The Sun Also Rises

Linklater's romantic nine-years-later sequel shines through a cloudy Berlin Film Festival

Never Forget

Another City, Not My Own

Forces of Nature

Berlin's Body Politic

Fear of Flying

A City Jump-starts Art and Commerce