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Still on the hunt: Duran Duran's Roger Taylor

With Mark Ronson producing All You Need Is Now and a video in which the band is played by top supermodels, the catsuits are back and begin their unzipping Tue, Jan 31 at C-Halle.

Jan 25, 2012 by Walter Crasshole in Reviews & Interviews

A chat with... Claudia Lehmann

EXBlicks features the director's take on a man of many personalities: Hans Narva. Lehmann's Hans im Glück will screen on Mon, Jan 16 at Lichtblick Kino followed by a Q&A and concert!

Jan 9, 2012 by Walter Crasshole in Film

Another junkie caper?

Interview: Tony O'Neill. The New York writer's new novel, Sick City, rampages through its story with a zeal for sex, violence and consumption that recalls William S. Burroughs and Dennis Cooper.

Sep 20, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in Culture

Where can you find shopping magic in Berlin? For only €1 entry, you find it at the Voodoo Market, the every other month party-in-a-bazaar. Handpicked wares, haircuts, tattoos and DIY participation, as well as a party, await.

Aug 18, 2011 by Anna Achon | Walter Crasshole in Survival

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Walter Crasshole: God beats the precious...

Walter hates precious things. And people who wear multiple festival wristbands LONG after the festival is over. Here's a weekend where he'll be able to hate a whole new batch of people.

Sep 8, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in The Berlin Blog (2 Comments)

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Walter Crasshole: Either way you'll drop dead

Summer's come and gone, but things are just starting to heat up. Walter Crasshole takes you down festival lane, gives you flick tips from your favorite press-baiting director and keeps it classy with classy classical music.

Sep 1, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in The Berlin Blog

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Walter Crasshole: Love to hate

Um, I hate weekends like this. I'd only have a slight chance of doing everything worth doing this top-heavy Friday.

May 5, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in The Berlin Blog

May Day 2010 photo by Dominic Burr

Walter Crasshole: Get used to it

Forget about catching up on your reading. What seems like a mini-weekend compared to last is jam-packed with twice as much revelry, minus the Christ.

Apr 28, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in The Berlin Blog

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EXBlicks: Punks in luck

The next installment of our Berlin film series (with English subs!) will be with Claudia Lehmann's Hans im Glück, a documentary of GDR punk, Hans Narva. As well as the Q&A with Lehmann, Narva perform!

Jan 9, 2012 by Walter Crasshole in Film

Berlin pornopolis

This city is an obvious choice for a porn film festival. And the PornFilmFestival Berlin, starting Oct 26, keeps it alt and arty, featuring groundbreaking directors and performers, including François Sagat.

Oct 19, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in Film

No Wave is good wave

A weekend evaluating No Wave with a peek at film by pivotal (no-)figures John Lurie, Beth and Scott B, Vivienne Dick, and James Nares in the form of films, panels, lectures and a performance by James Chance.

Jun 1, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in Film (1 Comments)

A cock of one's own

Freud, Butler, the French and the Germans are all with us here. No, it's not a game of Cluedo. It's Bruce LaBruce's take of Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, a thoughtful bit of engaging entertainment.

Mar 8, 2011 by Walter Crasshole in Stage (1 Comments)

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Sookee

The Kreuzberger rapper unleashes a hard but playful dose of feminist hip hop and glamour with her third album Bitches, Butches, Dykes & Divas at the quintessential Xberg venue.

Feb 1, 2012 2012-02-02T21:00:00 2012-02-02T23:00:00 by Walter Crasshole

Nuclear Family

Berlin's most fabulous club hostess Chantal kicks off 2012 with NSFW synth punk from Nuclear Family who serve up 'family values' like Carol Brady did red meat. The DJ Bunch be Divinity, Maringo, S-Tee and Miss Danger.

Dec 29, 2011 2012-01-05T23:00:00 2012-01-06T07:00:00 by Walter Crasshole

Planet of the Vampires

Part of Mitternachtskino Mario Bava: while not really about vampires per se, Bava's 1965 science fiction film is said to have been an influence on Ridley Scott's Alien albeit a bit campier and no H.R. Giger. Nov 12-16

Nov 4, 2011 2011-11-13T23:30:00 2011-11-13T23:59:00 by Walter Crasshole

Blood and Black Lace

Part of Mitternachtskino Mario Bava, Blood and Black Lace follows the exploits of a sadistic killer of fashion models. The Italian director is considered to have kicked off the giallo film genre with the classic body count thriller. Nov 19-23)

Nov 4, 2011 2011-11-20T23:45:00 2011-11-20T23:59:00 by Walter Crasshole

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