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Allison Krupp

Allison Krupp is an American novelist, screenwriter, and travel writer, scouring the city for earnest conversations with other Berlin weirdos. Send her your music, writing, films, and tales of love, loss, and revenge: allikrupp7@gmail.com

‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story’ Berlin Premiere: Fiction is Far Sexier than the Truth

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Author: The JT LeRoy Story is a documentary about one of the greatest literary hoaxes of all time. Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to bad weather. Berlin Film Studios and Berliner Union Film are bringing it to Berlin on August 11. Click here for more info. Our current reality is that everything could be … Read more ‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story’ Berlin Premiere: Fiction is Far Sexier than the Truth

Kreuzberg’s Die Eismacher Is Berlin’s Most Exotic Ice Creamery

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Die Eismacher is ice cream made with quirky and unbridled Berlin personality in mind. German obsession with ice cream: It’s a head-scratcher. Nigh-Auslanderbehörde lines, rain or shine or frigid temps, stretching around the block—all for a kugel or two. As Germans remain strong and thin and sensible, all I can assume is ice cream is … Read more Kreuzberg’s Die Eismacher Is Berlin’s Most Exotic Ice Creamery

Erika Lust Wants Your Sexy XConfessions

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Erika Lust knows what makes women tick. And it’s not the humdrum porn that’s pumping viruses into your laptop. This Wednesday, July 12, Berlin Film Society and Erika Lust of female pleasure-focused Erika Lust Films host: ERIKA LUST: XCONFESSIONS OPEN AIR, an intimate evening at Sisyphos, featuring live performances (yes, that kind) and a curated program … Read more Erika Lust Wants Your Sexy XConfessions

Afro-Italian AtayaCaffe Is Berlin Vegan Food At Its Best

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AtayaCaffe is fresh, vegan and vegetarian food, served in what feels like your living room. The place is warm, glowing with light, with mismatched furniture, chaotic patterns, and kid-made decorations. Already, on a Saturday morning, it’s blossoming: people easing from their nearby Prenzlauer Berg homes, saying bright hellos and inhaling the homegrown scent of whatever Elisabetta’s cooking … Read more Afro-Italian AtayaCaffe Is Berlin Vegan Food At Its Best

9 Most Surprising Moments from Primavera Sound 2017

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Barcelona’s Primavera Sound is festival heaven. It’s sun-drenched sea, tapas, and sangria in the afternoon, followed with one of the best festival line-ups at night, teetering into the morning. The Mediterranean breeze sweeps across the immense (but never over-crowded) audience, allowing you a breath of fresh air in the midst of your chosen “addle.” Read on for … Read more 9 Most Surprising Moments from Primavera Sound 2017

Schillerkiez: One Kiez to Rule Them All?

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Few Berlin neighborhoods exude “cool” like Schillerkiez. Situated in the southern haze of Neukölln, it’s guarded, sealed off: all racing cars on Hermannstraße on one edge and impenetrable nothingness in that daydream-y Tempelhofer Feld on the other. “Stumbling” into Schillerkiez isn’t easy. But I’m heading there today prepared with the Huawei P9 Plus—a phone with … Read more Schillerkiez: One Kiez to Rule Them All?

Win Tickets to Zoroastre at Komische Oper

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The battle between Good and Evil is ever raging in Berlin. Faced with the ticking clock of youth, we race out to hedonistic parties, guzzling booze and shushing our earnest minds, which whisper of “future consequences” and of “doing the right thing.” But have our morally dubious lives ever faced a real choice between Good … Read more Win Tickets to Zoroastre at Komische Oper

GRANIT is the Swedish Design Boutique Berlin’s Been Waiting For

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Downtown Mitte Swedish boutique, GRANIT, takes home decor to a heavenly level. Soft, grey light’s shimmering in from the wide-open doorway and the floor-to-ceiling windows. The music’s systematic, the beat becoming your very heartbeat, and the smells natural—akin to a specialty craftsman shop. The smell that reminds you you’re there to better something. Your home. Your … Read more GRANIT is the Swedish Design Boutique Berlin’s Been Waiting For

11 Freelance Coffee Shops in Berlin Worth their Weight in Kuchen

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Good freelance coffee shops in Berlin, featuring the necessities: Wifi. Kuchen. Good, cheap coffee. And, most necessarily, an air of “do whatever the hell you want in here, for however long as you want,” because, as freelancers, we know how awk it can be when asked to purchase something else. Of course, this is a limited … Read more 11 Freelance Coffee Shops in Berlin Worth their Weight in Kuchen

Warts, Tits, Humanity, and All with Daily Portrait Berlin

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Resistant to labels, Berliners acquire a smattering of descriptions. Artistic, perhaps. Edgy. Outside of time. Regardless, we’re here as runners, searching for a certain je ne sais quoi in our lives and perhaps finding a glimmer of it here, in this bizarro-world city. But behind each of our closed doors, tucked up in our little cheapo … Read more Warts, Tits, Humanity, and All with Daily Portrait Berlin

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