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(Thanks to my jet lag, I often napped at midday.) Kreuzberg feels familiar, like Berlin's Mission or Potrero Hill -- it used to be one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, and has a diverse ethnic population, but, ... It's also a central neighborhood in Berlin's gay community (and has been since the Weimar republic,
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The weblog of Steven Johnson. ... Part of Eno's point is that what we mean by "here" has a sliding scale to it. Sometimes "here" is the room you're sitting in; sometimes it's your block; sometimes it's your neighborhood; sometimes it's the Greater Metropolitan Area.
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includes the formerly separate Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and Berlin following formal unification on 3 October 1990.
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An American Does His Thing in Berlin ... Having departed Berlin for the cozy U.S. college town of Chapel Hill, NC, in March 2006, it seems that yet another move - just over a year later - will take the gang and I to Brooklyn, NY later this summer.
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Like Supamolly, Tacheles and many of Berlin's other squats started life when the Wall came down and Easterners fled crumbling buildings. The city was in chaos, and during the 80s there were plenty of clashes between squatters and police.
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A pay-what-you-want bar? In a recession? It may sound crazy, but it's been a hit in Berlin for 10 years, says Benji Lanyado ... There was a restaurant in Cricklewood who used to have such a policy in the early 2000s. This place in north London sounds a lots less fun, but that's Berlin for you.
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They are there in Daniel Libeskind's zinc-clad Jewish Museum Berlin, with its wrenching artifacts and its "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" walls canted to force upon visitors a spatial unease evocative of war's brutal dislocations. ... The Culture Vulture's Berlin...
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