THE SPRING ISSUE
RYAT
All bands dream of creating sounds that can’t be pigeonholed. Philadelphia’s RYAT (pronounced riot) has done it with an innovative blend of electronica, jazz, pop and modern experimental music. Their dense asymmetric rhythmic textures, swirling multi-layered vocals, unexpected shifts in tempo and cryptic lyrics, produce music that inhabits an intoxicating twilight zone between sweet dreams […]
Wim Wenders
On using new technology, the challenges of capturing dance onscreen and the hope for 3D as a tool for future cinematic travel. Among the world’s greatest filmmakers, Wim Wenders has persistently resisted easy categorization. One of the leading representatives of New German Cinema in the 1970s, he also has to his credit a $20 million […]
NYC: May/June 2011
1. What’s your favorite item of clothing you are wearing and where is it from? 2. If you were visiting NYC and you could inhabit anywhere you wanted to in the city, where would you stay? 3. If you could time travel, what year would you go to? 4. What’s your favorite place to travel […]
Heavy Metal
Maria Francesca Pepe | Maria Francesca Pepe has been leading the pack of jewelry designers for quite some time. She has become such a widespread phenomenon, that her name alone is synonymous with incredible pieces of great design details. Born in Foggia, in the south of Italy, she moved into fashion design after completing a […]
Strange Action (Utopia)
Isabel Lewis throbs with fantasy for contemporary dance. Dance in her fantasy does not strive for a physical, formal or conceptual ideal but instead the simultaneous precision and confusion germane to physical existence. It exists with no supplementary verbal or image-based information and thus external to market logics. It showcases what dance can do rather […]
Berlin Fashion
Berlin is coming up in the fashion industry. A pubescent youngster when compared to cities like New York and Paris, the Berlin Fashion Week is steadily advancing towards becoming the international fashion community’s unexpected prom-queen. While not there yet, there is a lot of potential in this dynamic city full of independent artists and unconventional […]
Origomu
Changing The World Through Design Taking things apart to create something new is not unheard of in the world of design. In fact, recycling is very much part of everyday life for designers and artists, who strive to turn the old into something innovative, both aesthetically and functionally. Following this simple, unspoken rule, Chilean-born artist […]
Space Lab
We crowd our big cities and so they expand. Unbound and frontierless, new buildings, subdivisions and freeway infrastructures swell the urban landscape upward and outward. Meanwhile, as people flood the Metropolis, neighboring towns and smaller cities are drying out, losing population and in turn industry, culture, civic pride, character… Raumlabor, an architecture team based in […]
Rebecca Welsh & Halo
HALO, the Kansas City based non-profit that offers guidance, counseling and art therapy for hundreds of orphans around the world, was founded by a determined young woman who, before dedicating her life to helping poverty stricken children, was an actress, model and world-champion Taekwondo practitioner. Rebecca Neuenswander Welsh, said founder, credits the success she achieved […]
About Place
Kadó People tend to feel one of two ways about licorice—you either love it or can’t stand the stuff. Berliners of the former persuasion head to the Graefekiez’s Kadó to satisfy their cravings. The small, sunny shop is brimming with all things licorice—nostalgic tins, licorice liquor, licorice cooking powder, licorice tea and cookbooks with recipes […]
Word Play
Periodic Browsing Today’s bookshops increasingly focus on their periodicals, stocking a curated selection of constantly changing contents that keep things fresh and inspire customers to return. Motto is one of the city’s newest and most comprehensive stops for periodic enticements. Opened in December 2008 in an old frame factory in Kreuzberg, the wood-paneled shop jams […]
Berlin Street Food Classics
What the hot dog stand is to New York, the Imbiss is to Berlin. Housed in little huts on the sidewalk, Imbissbuden sell cheap to-go snacks for only a few euros. Since they began, Imbiss have been meeting points for all walks of life: young, old, rich, poor, academics, proletarians, creatives, yuppies and club kids. […]
Henne
In a city where the only constant is that everything is constantly changing, you have to respect an establishment that has not only survived 100 years, but remains so busy that reservations are always strongly recommended. Is it the food or the romance of how the bar-turned-restaurant’s history intertwines with the city of Berlin that […]
CHIPPS
It’s 8 p.m. on a Thursday night when my partner and I step into CHIPPS on Jägerstraße. The first thing that catches our eye is the restaurant’s centerpiece: a large open kitchen with an attached salad bar filled with fresh ingredients. We are quickly seated at a wooden table next to one of the panoramic […]
.HBC
There is a certain mayhem to .HBC, the eclectic, multi-story, hybrid art, cinema and dining space located in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. In keeping with Berlin’s fetish for recycling and the barely-renovated chic of its bars, this former East Berlin Hungarian Cultural Center remains office-esque. Hipsters in high heels cannot click-clack across the old carpet and lino […]
