November 2011
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Berlin Food Info: A Culinary City Map
Berlin is awash with good food, and fast filling up with experts telling us where and what to eat. While dining out here is a joy, deciding between the ever-expanding options of eateries is anything but. So thank the stars for Peggy Schatz from the blog Multikulinarisch, who has pulled together a load of local…
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A Year in Berlin – Five Things We’ve Learned
Not much German, unfortunately. We started with good intentions. We did an intensive course for two months when we arrived, but three hours after a full day’s work, four times a week, was clearly too much German for anyone. By the end I was ready to shoot myself AND all Germans, just for the Dative…
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Music Montag: Strings of Life
Ahead of this week’s panel discussion The Detroit-Berlin Connection I wanted to post the best track ever to come out of Motor City. Easier said than done, with friends suggesting everything from Motown to the MC5, J Dilla to detroit techno. Struggling with what @RichardKovitch called an “impossible task” (“Difficult to think of any City…
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Katie’s Blue Cat
When we moved to “Kreuzkölln” (ew) seven months ago I would bemoan the lack of decent coffee this side of the Landwehrkanal; now it seems like every other street has an excellent café. Competition is fierce for the title Best Coffee in Berlin, so let me word this carefully: Katie’s Blue Cat produces the smoothest…
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Music Montag: Alaska in Winter
If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written about Bon Iver, you’ll know I’m a big fan of people holing up in cabins to make heart-rending music. That’s how this project from Albequerque art school dropout Brandon Bethancourt got its name, and the frozen-tears aesthetic so suited to his sometime home, Berlin. I love this emotronic…