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    Amok-Mama

    Jacinta Nandi's gonna trample on your beliefs on a daily basis.

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    The News Kraut

    Konrad Werner digests today's top Teutonic news and regurgitates it as a pellet.

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    Nite Life/Nite Death

    D. Strauss' insomnia = the depletion of your trust fund. Good luck.

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    Vexed & Perplexed

    And you thought you hated Berlin? Here's a bit more to complain about.

Nite Life/Nite Death
Tuesday, 15 Dec 2009
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Beakin' and Tweakin': The German Techno Chicken

Hey, alll my posts can't be warmed over Raymond Williams, right? And yes, the chicken is German.   There are precedents, of course: TWITTERING @ http://twitter.com/straussberliner ... read more
Wednesday, 09 Dec 2009
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Hof! Hof! Hof!: Are you a Rudolph for Schokoladen’s sleigh?

In the latest Save Berlin news: Mitte’s ever embattled non-squat Schokoladen is holding it’s 2nd annual Winterhoffest and Xmas Market, which will be doubling as a benefit concert to help d ... read more
Thursday, 03 Dec 2009
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WE NEED TO SEE YOUR PAPERS: Krazy Kop Krackdown on EXBERLINER Klub Kids dining on Delicious Doughnuts

I suppose that when my patrons at the EXBERLINER mansion planned the annual Xmas party, they didn’t expect to see one of their own carted off in a paddy wagon for the crime of growing a beard, b ... read more
Thursday, 12 Nov 2009
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Dot is Not

Taking the reigns of Club103 near Schlesische Tor, LiveAtDot always seemed like a bit of a thrown-together proposition – it had trouble deciding whether to keep calling itself LiveAtDot or Live ... read more
Monday, 09 Nov 2009
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Police State

Bornholmer Straße 11.09.09   TWITTERING @ http://twitter.com/straussberliner ... read more
Monday, 28 Sep 2009
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Post-Election Blues

TWITTERING at http://twitter.com/straussberliner ... read more
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009
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Tokio Hotel are SCHWUCHTEL. Says Tokio Hotel. As a joke!

Former and future goth-grunge teenybop sensations TOKIO HOTEL are on the comeback trail after a few years deep in the Amazon exploring ancient rituals of hair manipulation, and if your German is vague ... read more
Thursday, 17 Sep 2009
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The lyrics are by others but the words are your own: Monster Ronson's needs your writing

In a city in which Chris DeBurgh and A-HA outsell Grizzly Bear and Taylor Swift, karaoke is going to be king, and Monster Ronson's is Berlin's most-beloved Karaokeraum. But evidently the words of othe ... read more
Monday, 14 Sep 2009
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Dipshits at Diplo: Your columnist Assaulted at WMF

  I was attacked in the men’s room of WMF Saturday morning and, as you can see, being smashed in the face with a beer bottle while being choked will garner you quite a shiner, though it al ... read more
Friday, 11 Sep 2009
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Party All The Time: Berlin Needs Club Promoters!

Berlin is, in many ways, the perfect employment vortex: nobody wants to work, and there aren’t any jobs, anyway. Thank you expat aristocrats and Nazi Gold! Last night I met a man at Hamburger Ba ... read more
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