My perfect Berlin weekend: Micha Ristock
A look inside the intriguing lives of Berliners.
View ArticleInterview: David Wants To Fly
Transcendental Meditation was known for yogic flying, its aim to achieve world peace through meditation – and its star spokesman David Lynch. Then member David Sieveking filmed his experiences...
View ArticleInterview: Jo Baer
NOW SHOWING: As she hopped from New York to London to Amsterdam, from Minimalism to Radical Figuration, painter Jo Baer has always searched for new ways to “‘do the right thing’”. Now she's on to...
View ArticleA chat with... Ivana Stancheva
“An undiscovered revolution” is how Berlin’s Balkan Wave pioneer, musician/filmmaker Ivana Stancheva, describes herself. She's also one of the city's last diehard communists.
View ArticleInterview: Rufus Wainwright
On May 19, Rufus Wainwright took to the Volksbühne's stage with his new album, "All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu", completed a month before his mother's death. He told us why he has to be a man now...
View Article"Living here abstracts everything"
LAST CHANCE! British multimedia artist Mathew Hale came to Berlin before the hype hit – 10 years ago – with his partner, the visual artist Tacita Dean. A local show proves his art is still as...
View ArticleA chat with... Caspar Brötzmann
This week, the cult avant-metal trio Caspar Brötzmann Massaker has reformed for the first time in a decade: "We are back." What happens next?
View ArticleLukas Moodysson: "I work in a childish business"
Mammoth, with Gael García Bernal and Michelle Williams, is Moodysson's first big budget film. And he's not so sure that's a good thing...
View ArticleInterview: Forgetting Dad
Sixteen years ago, Rick Minnich’s father mysteriously lost his memory after a car accident. Minnich tried to capture the story on film – and found it to be odder than he could possibly have imagined.
View ArticleMy Perfect Berlin Weekend: Maud Cassagne
A look inside the intriguing lives of Berliners.
View ArticleInterview: Die Eroberung der Inneren Freiheit
NOW SHOWING! Philosophy workshops in a prison? Silvia Kaiser and Alexandra Kumorek filmed a perplexing experiment at Berlin’s maximum-security penitentiary...
View ArticleA chat with... Rich Rubin
Rich Rubin’s Hooray For Hollywood is one of five finalists in the English Theatre Berlin’s inaugural 10-minute-play competition, about “English in German daily life”.
View ArticleHank Shocklee: the definitive interview
King of Sampling and Bomb Squad mastermind Hank Shocklee unpicks hip hop ethics, music fads and Public Enemy's explosive success.
View ArticleSteve “Lips” Kudlow: "I live with no regrets"
Long-lost metal god Steve "Lips" Kudlow of Anvil talks about the documentary that reignited his music career - and why he doesn't need the sex and drugs in rock 'n' roll.
View ArticleHelp! The post-tourism tourists are here...
For better or worse, a new breed of “place consumers” is transforming Berlin’s neighbourhoods – we spoke to the city’s top expert, urban planner Johannes Novy, about the impact of these hipster nomads.
View ArticleExclusive interview: Chilly Gonzales
The self-described "super-powered musical genius" on Peaches, his new album with Boys Noize, and why "it's all about the AUDIENCE".
View ArticleStuart Brisley: "I often take off my trousers to reduce the notion of male...
DON'T MISS: Performance artist Brisley has always sought out the hidden or discarded – the homeless, food, excrement. He's winding down his first German show in 20 years.
View ArticleA chat with... Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi
The wunderkind of "glo-fi" - who's playing at Comet Club on Thursday - talks about washed-out music, viral marketing, the Memory Man... and those big, big glasses.
View ArticleInterview: Duncan Jones, director of Moon
NOW SHOWING! The man formerly known as "Zowie" is stepping out of the shadow of his famous dad with a surprise hit: a small-budget, retro-futuristic space film.
View ArticleA chat with... Reinhold Friedl of Zeitkratzer
ON STAGE THIS FRIDAY! Avant-gardists extraordinaire - and Lou Reed/Whitehouse collabortors - Zeitkratzer prepare to play their "Volksmusik" at the open-air Wassermusik Festival.
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