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March 2013

  • Buchstabenmuseum Berlinuberlin

    A trip to Berlin’s idiosyncratic Buchstabenmuseum with Jenni Fuchs, a museologist blogging over on Museum Diary. Anyone remember Lefty the Salesman, who used to try and sell poor old Ernie letters of the alphabet on Sesame Street? (“Psst! Would you like to buy an O?”) Stepping in to Berlin’s Buchstabenmuseum (Museum of Letters), where you…

  • Daily Deutsch Doodle: Am Arsch der Welt

    by Julie Shipley Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German.

  • Metal Montag: Comeback Kid

    Mike T West brings the Mosh Montag! Oodles of top stuff has escaped from Canada: Chromeo, Scott Pilgrim and Due South, to name but a few. This Friday, one of the nation’s harder exports Comeback Kid will chokeslam Friedrichshain in half, as part of the moshtastic 4th annual Mazine Rebellion Tour (Rebellion 4 to the…

  • Metal Montag: Rammstein

    Rammstein, Oslo 2012 by NRK P3 under license (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 It’s my birthday and I’ll post industrial metal if I want to! No news from Rammstein, but they’re from Berlin, so nyuh! Here’s a classic live clip, featuring some insane custom pyrotechnics – like the fans say, ”Other bands play, Rammstein burns!” Happy burnsday to…

  • Frühling Good: A Photo Walk with Olive

    So the sun has finally decide to show up here in Berlin and I think we can all agree it’s about bloody time. When we arrived two years ago people warned us that winter here can be one long grey nightmare and boy were they right! Aaaaaaanyway the sun is here, so we can all…