finding berlin

After 300 demonstrators gathered at Eastside Gallery earlier today to disturb the demolition of parts of the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, the building contractor and police decided to delay further construction. One piece of wall was removed, protestors are afraid that demolition will be continued later today or at night.

Peres Pro­jects is pleased to present Gay Town, a solo pro­ject with James Franco. Gay Town explores a vari­ety of themes that are cent­ral to Franco’s artistic prac­tice, mainly issues related to adoles­cence, pub­lic and private per­sona, ste­reo­types and other soci­etal con­cerns such as society’s pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with celebrity. Franco cre­ated most of the works for

I always perceived the stretch of land between Ostbahnhof and Warschauer Straße always as a no-man's-land. The part that is located south of the S-Bahn tracks – mostly because the East Side Gallery is more a tourist spot than a place of daily life – is as alien to me as as the northern part, that is dominated by warehouses, hardware and central markets. If it wasn't for Berghain I might have never noticed the strange isolation of this small inner-city island that was built at the historical site of the former Wriezener Bahnhof and its tracks. Always wondering what might be stored in there, it takes a couple of minutes to pass these depots of innumerable miles of shelving. I still remember this late summer weekend in 2010 quite well, when we left the club at dawn, climbed up to the roof of one of the warehouses and sat there to enjoy the first warm shafts of sunlight. We stayed for quite some time and were not bothered by anyone, let alone the owners or the police, simply because there wasn't a soul in sight.

August 12th, 2012 was a good day. Filled with great music, amaz­ing artists, lovely people and sun­shine at Yaam. Through My Speak­ers and Pon De Pigeon will con­tinue provid­ing you with dance music selec­ted by our friends from Lon­don, Ams­ter­dam and Ber­lin cel­eb­rat­ing vari­ous music genres like Soul, Funk, Hiphop, Reg­gae, Dance­hall, Grime, UKG, House, Foot­work

In case you've missed it: Yesterday's dense fog didn't leave any doubts that autumn has finally arrived. Upon coming home to Kreuzberg I was amazed about the city being densely covered with thick mist – enjoy for yourself how beautiful and eery the Oberbaumbrücke sat enthroned over the Spree yesterday.

Ber­lin in the wee hours is divine. Exper­i­en­cing this serenity when the city wakes up can be the best chill-out effect after dan­cing the night away. Recently, I took a walk home along Karl-Marx-Allee, in my eyes Berlin’s most impress­ive and most scenic grand boulevard. After the end of WW2, the major­ity of Ber­lin was in ruins.

I wouldn’t exactly say that the RAW Tem­pel Loc­a­tion makes a good place for a BBQ, but it’s not too far off from grime-y places like Görl­itzer Park either so we might just as well get the grill fired up. In any case, you may or may not remem­ber that that’s where our Headquar­ters for FindingBerlin-Tours are,

The Mod­er­sohn­brücke in Friedrich­shain is fam­ous for it’s one of a kind sun­down view­ing loc­a­tion. It’s the cheapest over­view of the city includ­ing a won­der­ful light­ning situ­ation, so if you’ve ever wondered where to take your next date to, this is the right spot (although you prob­ably won’t be alone. Mod­er­sohn­brücke usu­ally is crowded, and you do

A couple of weeks ago Mar­tin invited us on one of his new tours. On his beau­ti­ful bikes (whenever we get the chance, we leave our own bikes at home and bor­row one of his’ — they’re just too pre­cious), Mar­tin guided us through Kreuzberg and Friedrich­shain on his newly added “Street Art Tour”. Truth be told:

I can’t believe I’ve never been to a Karaoke Night at Mon­ster Ronson’s before. Loc­ated on Warschauer Str, this queer joint has all you need for a wasted (and pos­sibly embar­rass­ing) night out: cozy comfy booths, an adven­tur­ous pro­gram, vari­ous activ­it­ies and a lot of party. To cel­eb­rate the birth­day of one of our best friends we decided to

Every year a cool per­son (def­in­itely someone with 3000+ friends on face­book) goes into an unknown, shitty joint with a sparse interior design, blank walls and some vin­tage fur­niture and makes it the place to be. For the next couple of months, every­one and their mother charge into the place, over­crowd it, hype it on their blogs