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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

If You’re Serious about Learning German, Check Out Chatterbug

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Chatterbug is a language app with a fresh approach to learning German… …shuffling you along from one stage of the slog to the next until suddenly, you’ve got a bit of the language flopping around on your tongue. Finally.  If you live here with the rest of us, you know the German language is a proverbial … Read more If You’re Serious about Learning German, Check Out Chatterbug

BLY’s Tips at the Berlinale 2019 – And How to Buy Tickets

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It’s been an electric time at the 69th annual Berlinale. It’s Berlin’s iconic film festival, with pretentious showboaters and film journalists and hungry auteurs roaming through your favorite glittering modern jolt of horror, Potsdamer Platz, since roundabouts last week. For this writer, hopping from film to film with my cell phone on airplane mode has … Read more BLY’s Tips at the Berlinale 2019 – And How to Buy Tickets

An Illustrated Children’s Book about Berlin Loneliness

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Keir Edmonds’ Mr. Flamingo Goes to Berlin sees a flamingo struggling to make friends and “fit” into our weirdo, oftentimes bleak city. Berlin can be a formidable place. The winters are long, the clouds tight overhead—a prison from the sun, from memories of anything bright and alive. And what’s more, if you’re an expat or … Read more An Illustrated Children’s Book about Berlin Loneliness

The War On Drugs to Soundtrack our Existential Crisis at Verti

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Nostalgic heart-busting Philly-born War on Drugs to headline new venue Verti on December 10. It’s funny to hear much-beloved indie rockers War on Drugs somewhere outside of the plains of Kentucky or the gritty factory towns of the east coast of America. Their layered music builds a wall of impenetrable sound, of lyrics that seem … Read more The War On Drugs to Soundtrack our Existential Crisis at Verti

Puschenfest: No Headliners. Edgy Weirdness. Killer Indie Music.

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Puschenfest assembles a stunning selection of indie artists for two days of music on November 16 and 17. According to one of the festival organizers, Andreas Oberschelp of music promoter Puschen, the colorful lineup “includes the first Berlin appearance of the French 7-piece indie garage band The Limiñanas, UK twee-pop youngsters Girl Ray, Toronto’s Meg Remy … Read more Puschenfest: No Headliners. Edgy Weirdness. Killer Indie Music.

Sad Google Worker: Berlin Dumped You. Now What? A Survival Guide

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Oh shit! The gentrification gods have spoken, and it’s a solid NIX to the Google campus that was meant to shadow over Kreuzberg, pompous and sure of both itself and Berlin’s shiny and bright technological future. To me, as an American freelance writer who is, in every sense Part Of The Problem (saying it before … Read more Sad Google Worker: Berlin Dumped You. Now What? A Survival Guide

Steady Holiday Brings Nightmarish Dream Pop to Monarch

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Los Angeles-based Steady Holiday brings ominous, ghostly dream-pop to Monarch on October 23. Tickets: only 9.90! Buy here. October is a ghoulish month. It’s one of hollowing a crater out in your bed, wrapping yourself in thick blankets and gazing enormous eyes out at that strange, grey drizzle. We’re in preparation, now. 4 p.m. darkness. … Read more Steady Holiday Brings Nightmarish Dream Pop to Monarch

Kurt Vile to Wordplay His Way through Dreamy Rock at Huxleys

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Kurt Vile brings ultimate slacker rock to Huxleys Neue Welt on October 18. Kurt Vile’s last-week release, Bottle It Up, comes three years after his highly-acclaimed album, b’lieve i’m goin down… gave us that all-too-familiar, gut-wrenching fear that who we’re becoming isn’t who we’re meant to be at all. When I hear b’lieve i’m goin … Read more Kurt Vile to Wordplay His Way through Dreamy Rock at Huxleys

6 Easy Ways to Still Have Fun in Berlin if You Died 150 Years Ago

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You died 150 years ago this October (actually, it was 147, but who’s counting!). On that impossibly beautiful mid-autumn Mr. Blue Sky day, you stretched your last morning stretch, gobbled up your very last senf-drizzled wurst, all in preparation for an untimely end: a carriage flattening you to mush into the gravel below, perhaps, or … Read more 6 Easy Ways to Still Have Fun in Berlin if You Died 150 Years Ago

La Luz To Drench Musik & Frieden in So-Cal Psychedelic Nostalgia

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Daydreamy psychedelic rockers La Luz take Musik & Frieden on October 2, with support from Peggy Sue. La Luz is singer/guitarist Shana Cleveland, keyboardist Alice Sandahl, drummer Marian li Pino, and bassist Lena Simon. I’ve been hungry for their achy, feel-nostalgic-for-the-moment-even-while-it’s-happening music for several years, and especially after the release of their 2015 release, Weirdo … Read more La Luz To Drench Musik & Frieden in So-Cal Psychedelic Nostalgia

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