Posted in berlin on Nov 8th, 2011
An ancient-looking building, its pretty well preserved, plaster moldings and arabic scrollwork decorate the facade, as well as a sign that identifies the place as the Internet Café. A symmetrical military camp, with light green tents seen from the air vaguely resembles a Roman camp. A man is holding his baby daughter in his arms [...]
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Posted in berlin on Oct 7th, 2011
So much has been said about Berlin, that words are not enough to continue flattering a city that continues to re-inventing, growing, and attracting people from around the world. The problem of the global village is perhaps, that despite the large networks of transnational markets, huge companies, networking activities and real-time global communication, people continues [...]
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Posted in berlin on Sep 28th, 2011
Osteopathy, or osteopathic medicine, is for some people a medical practice and for others a paramedical activity included within what is known as alternative medicine. The first school of osteopathy (the American School of Osteopathy) was founded by Andrew Taylor Still, in 1892. In Anglo-Saxon countries like Canada, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom, osteopathy [...]
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Posted in berlin on Sep 22nd, 2011
If there is something that moves the world, according to Sigmund Freud, that is sex. Therefore, the most popular erotic products fair in the world known as The Venus Fair, which begins on September 29 and finishes on the 2nd of October in Berlin opens for all of those who want to expand the limits [...]
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Posted in berlin on Sep 14th, 2011
This year Berlin will present the Marathon in the 38th version on Sunday, September 25, 2011. Around 15000 runners are expected to be present before the massive crowd of 50,000 spectators. The event is expected to get bigger and popular, with the finishing line Brandenburg Gate, which is the true symbol of German unity, getting [...]
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Posted in berlin on Sep 5th, 2011
On the 9th and 10th of September rock and electronic music lovers have a date with Berlin Festival 2011, that will take place in Tempelhof Airport Park, just like last year. The festival began nineteen years ago and it promises to break its own record with close to sixty bands take make the best sounds [...]
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Posted in berlin on Sep 2nd, 2011
Leather. Chains. Pins. The gay community doesn’t stop looking for new ways of expression and ways to build the community. Because it’s all about feeling good about one self and meeting new people, travelling a bit and sharing experiences. Leather is usually a very popular material around the world, especially for its texture, for being [...]
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Posted in berlin on Sep 1st, 2011
Every time about 7000 people visit the festival and the numbers are increasing rapidly. The Literature festival continues for 12 days and nearly 300 + events are celebrated which are enacted by about 100’s of renowned poets every year. The numbers above itself proves the craze of this festival among the people and therefore people [...]
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Posted in berlin on Aug 30th, 2011
In the first pages of his wonderful and baffling book Vision and velocity by the Samoan writer Albert Hanover tells the commotion that his first visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London caused him in the summer of 1991. Still disorientated as a consequence of the time outside the clocks that he had [...]
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Posted in berlin on Aug 24th, 2011
“Eyes Wide Shut” is one of my favorites films, because the line between reality and fantasy is very thin, while leaving the door open, sometimes you don’t even know what field you are in, so the imagination is unleashed. This movie requires one to be an active observer, attentive, it requires to leave your senses [...]
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