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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

Is Katie’s Blue Cat A Perfect Berlin Café? Who Cares. It’s Great.

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Perhaps perfect’s what Kreuzkölln’s Katie’s Blue Cat is on this aching-for-spring last day of February. But who’s to say. Tucked just off of the canal, on Friedelstraße, Olivia and Ngoc’s Katie’s Blue Cat Café is painted a striking, fairytale blue, with rustic tables and chairs roosting out front, all through winter. Fingerless-gloved hipsters shiver out there during … Read more Is Katie’s Blue Cat A Perfect Berlin Café? Who Cares. It’s Great.

Beets&Roots: Finally, A Cool Veggie “Bowl” Place That Isn’t Bragging About It

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“Trendy American culture” is a flashy curse, with “third-wave coffee shops” and “craft beer bars” cleansing our grimy, Sterni culture, and our wallets. Jesus Christ, take your pulled pork and your five euro cupcakes back, America: we’ve got blue icing on our faces and no beer money, and it’s cramping our sleepy-eyed style. That said: … Read more Beets&Roots: Finally, A Cool Veggie “Bowl” Place That Isn’t Bragging About It

The Cult Beckons From A Former Butcher Shop. Finally, You’re Home

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Rathaus Neukölln grit. A former butcher shop, with its rusting, naked hooks still hanging, its floors slanted for slit necks, pouring blood. And a ragtag troupe of damaged and demented women, turning doe eyes to a charismatic, Jesus-like figure–like many of us, searching for somewhere, anywhere to “fit in.” This is: YOUR HOME IS WHERE … Read more The Cult Beckons From A Former Butcher Shop. Finally, You’re Home

Stop Swiping. The Inner Circle is the Best Way to Find Love in 2017

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Us Berliners live a seemingly perpetual youth: dancing and dosing and recklessly adventuring through the night. “Maybe I’ll settle down someday,” is the actual hurrah of a 40-something guy we’ve all met on the U8. (Those that went home with said 40-something guy do maintain regrets.) But finding noble partners with whom to stride off … Read more Stop Swiping. The Inner Circle is the Best Way to Find Love in 2017

Christmas Garden Berlin is a Twinkle of Hope in an Otherwise Hellhole Year

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We hate to bother you under your five-blanket-layers and steaming Vitamin D lamp, but between now’s dismal blockage of grey clouds and next year’s assured summer (if Trump doesn’t burn down the planet before then), there are a few weeks of twinkling, holiday hope. The sober kind. The Christmas Garden Berlin in the exquisite Botanical … Read more Christmas Garden Berlin is a Twinkle of Hope in an Otherwise Hellhole Year

‘GreenGurus’ All-Veggie Delivery to Roast, Sizzle, or Do Almost Whatever Else to the Unhealthy Competition

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Die-hard health-nuts, beware: Berlin’s a minefield of meter-tall pints, sizzling 4 a.m. falafel sammies, and terrorizing gym memberships that (rumor has it) latch onto your bank information and never let go (like you would have used it anyway). But you don’t have to lose your edge. I know you have doubts, Thomas. After all: GreenGurus‘ … Read more ‘GreenGurus’ All-Veggie Delivery to Roast, Sizzle, or Do Almost Whatever Else to the Unhealthy Competition

Amoreze Bralettes for Sensual, Female Empowerment

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In Berlin, feminine beauty is based in individuality, a collection of strangeness and crooked teeth and shaven heads and taut bodies and pillow bodies and a constant sense of freedom, of authenticity. And with this ready imperfection, Berlin women claim empowerment. Anca Barson crafts gorgeous AmorezeBerlin lingerie, along with her marketing partner, Irina Bibire, each to the … Read more Amoreze Bralettes for Sensual, Female Empowerment

Monthly Tape Worm Cassette BBQ Scavenges Berlin’s Depths for Best of Indie Rock

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“Average-looking freaks,” indie rockers Mincer Ray, spent endless days and nights scavenging the depths of this rat-hole city to bring you the very best in indie music. The result? This Wednesday’s Tape Worm Cassette BBQ, featuring Strand Child, Mincer Ray (natürlich), and LA’s Kraftwööd. Together, they part the drudgery (and heroin dealers) in front of … Read more Monthly Tape Worm Cassette BBQ Scavenges Berlin’s Depths for Best of Indie Rock

How I Learned German From My Bed, Courtesy of Lingoda and Laziness

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My German is shit. I used to laugh about it, celebrating my ignorance like a Confederate flag-wielding Trump supporter. Armed with just a few expressions, I can flitter through the Berlin nightlife, wrangle some falafel for sustenance, and generally exist. I am a long-term tourist, a currywurst rotting in the sun. And I need to be … Read more How I Learned German From My Bed, Courtesy of Lingoda and Laziness

Urban Challenger is the adventure app for your favorite, dirt-broke backpacker

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Backpackers, those orthopedically-stooped turtles that occasionally bag-smack you on the U-Bahn, have a ravenous will for adventure (and sometimes an indistinguishable smell). But, alas, a mere crack of any travel guide reveals an outdated mode of exploration. And who has the space, the money, or the patience for those books by Great Dweeb Dad Rick Steeves, … Read more Urban Challenger is the adventure app for your favorite, dirt-broke backpacker

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