Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Solstice-to-Solstice with the Berlin Fernsehturm

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Some would point to the Brandenburg Gate as the most prominent Wahrzeichen  (emblem or symbol) of Berlin, but in the post-Berlin Wall peri...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Dubbing Trouble and the German Kino

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Das Kino, Berlin style. When I moved in Berlin for the first time in 2010, I met a guy who had set the lofty goal of visiting every Kino...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Spargelzeitgeist: the German Penchant for Seasonal Food and Drink

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The sun is shining in Berlin, winter jackets are being stowed away, city park lawns will soon be trampled into dirt, and all that means ...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

German Beer: Past, Present and Future (Part 2)

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Ludger Berges' Hopfen & Malz shop in Berlin-Wedding. (Photo: Philip Husemann) "Berlin was waiting for good beer" ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

German Beer: Past, Present, and Future (Part 1)

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"We can better conquer Germania with beer than with weaponry." These choice words from Roman historian Tacitus in the 1st century...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Atomkraft? Nein Danke. Energiewende? Ja bitte.

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In June of 2011, Germany made perhaps the most significant and gutsy move made by any nation to date in order to boost renewable energy pr...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Notes from the German Underground

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The Chermans love David Hasslehoff...and Alf. (Photo: Notes of Berlin) There are many fascinating written genres in the German language...
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