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One Man’s Journey into the Spa Unknown with Treatwell

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One man tackles online hair and beauty website Treatwell to discover if “treating yourself” is fit for the female world alone (and other uses for cucumbers). It’s hard to believe, but that warm kiss on the nape of your neck is spring. It’s time (or almost) to shed your literal and metaphorical coat in exchange for sleeveless … Read more One Man’s Journey into the Spa Unknown with Treatwell

VIRTŪ: When Meeting Your Neighbor in the Corridors Turns into a Social Business

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When you’re given the chance to move to a city like Berlin — a city buzzing with creative ideas, where new opportunities and new connections wait around every corner — you take it. You try to connect with as many people as you can. You talk to anyone. Everyone. You even chat with your neighbors. … Read more VIRTŪ: When Meeting Your Neighbor in the Corridors Turns into a Social Business

Trengove’s Film The Wound Pitches Sexuality Against Masculinity

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What is masculinity? Opening the Panorama section of Berlinale this year, John Trengove‘s first feature length film, The Wound, tries in earnest to answer this question. Taking place during Ukwaluka – a very rarely spoken and sometimes deadly Xhosa penile circumcision ritual – the film presents a sometimes unsettling series of events that transpire during … Read more Trengove’s Film The Wound Pitches Sexuality Against Masculinity

Sneakersnstuff’s Berlin Store Shows Some Sneakers Are Worth Queueing For

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When White Trash occupied this building, it was queues of leather-clad rock fans who blocked the die-hard radlers on Schönhauser Allee’s Fahrrad-Autobahn. Now there’s a different line snaking from that famous door, and they’re not queuing for American food and tattoos. It’s sneakers they’re after. They’re the Sneakerheads, and Sneakersnstuff has a new release they … Read more Sneakersnstuff’s Berlin Store Shows Some Sneakers Are Worth Queueing For

Love, Art and Feminism in the Digital Age. Digital_Luv is Curated by GIRLS.

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Archive note: Published in December 2016, this interview introduced Curated by GIRLS and previewed the Digital_Luv exhibition at BlogFabrik on 10–11 December 2016. The exhibition and its instant-camera giveaway have ended; the interview remains preserved in full. I have always wanted to write about art. Actually, that was one of the reasons I studied Visual … Read more Love, Art and Feminism in the Digital Age. Digital_Luv is Curated by GIRLS.

Last Week in Berlin: Christmas is Coming! (Whether You Like It or Not.)

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Archive note: Published in November 2016, this editorial photo story captured Berlin’s early Christmas atmosphere and contemporary cultural mood. It is preserved as a historical snapshot rather than a current event guide. BERLIN LOVES YOU, even if you’re one of those lebkuchen-crazed hopefuls who decorates the Christmas tree November 1, eager for Jesus to come.  And Berlin … Read more Last Week in Berlin: Christmas is Coming! (Whether You Like It or Not.)

Neukölln Shopping Nacht, because Weserstrasse Never Sleeps

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Archive note: Published in November 2016, this article documented the seventh Neukölln Shopping Nacht on Weserstraße on 12 November 2016. The event has ended; its participating shops, programme and links remain as a record of the neighbourhood’s independent retail scene. Neukölln Shopping Nacht is back for a late-night shopping Weserstrasse special edition. It’ll take place … Read more Neukölln Shopping Nacht, because Weserstrasse Never Sleeps

Chrome Store Brings Berlin Designers to Neukölln

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Forget about schicki micki Mitte – if you want to find that startling statement piece that shouts ‘you’, head to Neukölln (and more precisely to the Chrome Store) When I went to visit Chrome Store, I imagined it would be like any other vintage shop from Berlin: a mix of hipsterish items, bohemian hats, garish … Read more Chrome Store Brings Berlin Designers to Neukölln

Swoopstr: Die Swapping-Party auf deinem Handy

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Jeder weiß es, dass wir in einer Wegwerfgesellschaft leben, dass wir von allem zu viel haben, das wir Dinge besitzen, die wir nicht brauchen, das Konsum, die wahre Droge unserer Gesellschaft ist. Wir leben in einem Zeitalter, in dem Shoppen zu einem Allheilmittel geworden ist, es hilft gegen Liebeskummer und gegen Langeweile, es ist der … Read more Swoopstr: Die Swapping-Party auf deinem Handy

Obectra: A Berlin Fashion Message in Black

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If you know Berlin, its nightlife and its subcultures, you’ll have noticed the colour black. It’s always there. It’s part of it. Like a shadow covering the night, like an eclipse of the sun. Black is beautiful, powerful, strong. An understatement becoming a statement. Black is a stand against fast-changing trends and superficial fashion messages. … Read more Obectra: A Berlin Fashion Message in Black

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