Forget Netflix. Nevermind online streaming. Sometimes, nothing beats going to see a movie the old-fashioned way: you know, putting on actual clothes, leaving the house, and going to sit in a theatre with one’s fellow mankind to be entertained for 90+ minutes. I like going to the movies with friends (provided they’re not the kind […]
Tag Archives: Neukölln
Yummy Yume // Neukölln’s new Japanese dumpling bar
In a rare moment of megalomania, I recently crowned myself on Instagram as Berlin’s biggest dumpling fanatic. Sylee of Berlin Reified kindly humoured me and retorted by calling me “the city’s official Queen of Dumplings.” The occasion: I’d just published my second feature-length dumpling article in Zitty magazine. The first, back in January, was about […]
New York State of Mind // Bagels & Lox at Two Planets Café
As an expat, speaking poorly of German bread is practically sacrilegious. Lest I want the Ausländerbehörde to hunt me down and boot me from this fair land, I’ll hold my tongue on the topic of the German loaf, except to say that in living here, certain carb cravings are left unrequited. I’ve got one word […]
Homecoming // Hello, Schillerkiez
I’ve moved. Suddenly and jarringly. In that funny way life sometimes has of being cyclical without us realizing it, I’m now back on the exact corner–though in a different apartment–where I lived from 2009-2011. The last couple months have been a time of upheaval and chaos, but most of all, change. I had to quickly […]