December 2013
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What I Know About Berliners: 25 Observations
Last weekend a *certain* Berlin newspaper interviewed us about our first book, What I Know About Germans, and asked us to come up with a similar list specific to Berliners. It should come out soon, in German, but for those of you who don’t speak Deutsch – or Berlinerisch – here’s our new 25-point list, illustrated…
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Das Gegengift: Scottish food at Das Gift
You probably already know Das Gift as an awesome expat hangout, a Neukölln Eckkneipe owned by Barry Burns from Mogwai and his lovely wife Rachel, and the site of the best jukebox in Berlin – with exclusive playlists from the likes of Caribou, comedian David Cross and Robert bloody Smith! But did you know that they also…
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Music Montag: MRKL
I’ll admit that I don’t know the first thing about this artist, except that they’re based in Berlin and have produced a track called “First Snow”. I’d guess that MRKL is Angela Merkel’s musical project, but I just can’t imagine her producing Prefuse 73-meets-Air-meets-Jackson and his Computer Band cliphoptronica. If it is Angie, she gets my…
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A note on the Berlin startup scene
If you have even a passing familiarity with the Berlin startup scene, you’ll have seen this blog post on The Guardian website, written by someone who recently returned to the UK after a brief immersion in the city’s tech “bubble”. Well, The Local asked for my reaction – as someone who has a lot of contact with…
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Music Montag: Coco Jamboo!
Brrrr! If we were smart Berliners we would have already booked our flights to Brazil this winter. But aren’t that clever or that rich – and neither are you – so lets have Mr President take us there. When “Coco Jamboo” hit the UK top ten (and number 1 in pretty much the rest of…