Posts Tagged ‘Wedding’
Photo Gallery: Good Wedding
Good Wedding is a typographic collection of positivity, joy, humour and optimism in Wedding, Berlin. This series offers a visual counterpoint to the suburb's somewhat dubious and largely undeserved reputation. Good Wedding is an expression of the unconditional fondness and fascination that Australian photographer Kate Seabrook holds for her new adopted neighbourhood. Rose-coloured glasses or not, there is plenty to love about this district, as can be seen from the images [...]
Da Baffi
Molly Hannon tracks down divine Italian food in Wedding... Eating Italian food in Berlin can be about as thrilling as devouring a Döner Kebab. The ubiquity of both national cuisines can discourage diners from seeking out the authentic flavors that define them, or even from being able to discover exactly what those are. The year-old Da Baffi in Wedding is a shining exception. This unassuming newcomer embodies all the right elements of traditional Italian cooking. Owned by two Italians, [...]
On the Osloer Strasse
Paul Scraton reports on life in his Gesundbrunnen kiez... I It is just past midnight on the Osloer Strasse. I emerge from the U-Bahn station onto the wide, dark boulevard. There are not so many people about. At the corner of Drontheimer Strasse a couple of drunks stagger out from their smoke-filled corner kneipe, bellies full of gassy pilsner and cheap shots of korn. The lights in the kebab stand across the street burn brightly but there are no customers. A few steps up the street [...]
Ewan Pearson, Clubland Maestro
Wyndham Wallace chats to Berlin-based DJ, producer, writer and clubland luminary Ewan Pearson... Very much the renaissance man, English born Ewan Pearson has earned a reputation as one of the best contemporary DJs, producers and musicians around. Known to many for his remixes of Goldfrapp, The Chemical Brothers, Feist and Franz Ferdinand, he’s not afraid of venturing beyond the electronic music scene, and has worked as a producer for The Rapture, Gwen Stefani, M83, Delphic and [...]
Hauptbahnhof: the non-kiez
Berlin resident Giulia Pines reflects on the strangeness of living in a neighbourhood that's not quite a neighbourhood... How does one write about a neighborhood that is not a neighbourhood? A neighbourhood still so much under construction one cannot even use that well-worn phrase “not so much a neighbourhood as a state of mind” (“not of an age but for all time”?) to describe it? A neighbourhood whose future identity is still so much in question, we are awoken day and night by [...]
Mauerpark Flea Market
One of Berlin’s best-loved fleamarkets offers plenty of browsing, decent eats and a fantastic atmosphere... If there’s a flea market most beloved by Berliners and tourists alike, it has to be the one that takes place every Sunday next to the Mauerpark. You'll find it on Bernauer Strasse - just follow the trails of people walking in either direction, past the rows of bikes, ethnic eateries (Tandoori, Jammi Jammi) and mobile sausage vendors to the large set of gates that lead into a [...]
Book Review: Berlin by David Clay Large
Paul Scraton takes a closer look at David Clay Large's fantastic history of the city... “What Potsdamer Platz resembles is an edge city; one of those private, development-driven urbanoid clusters that have sprouted up across the American landscape in recent years. It is reassuring that the new Potsdamer Platz is notably without nationalist expressions. The downside of this is that the place could be anywhere. Like other edge cities, it occupies a kind of nebulous international airport [...]
Q&A: Nils Frahm, Composer & Musician
A Berlin-based composer with a penchant for piano improvisation Raised on a musical diet of classical and jazz, Nils Frahm started playing the piano as a young student of Nahum Brodski, himself a student of Tchaikovsky’s last protégé. When the budding musician wasn’t hovering over a keyboard, he was sifting through his father’s vast collection of ECM records. Now, aged 27, Frahm has become a masterful improvisational pianist. In December he released his first two [...]
