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Latest blog posts from Metroblogging Berlin

SAVE THE FKKN ROBOTS
An exhibition, 5th - 19th December 2008 @ Xenado Galerie, opening this Friday at 6 PM. Artists: Claudia Rey & Dr Walker Xenado Galerie Chorinerstraße 79 10119 Berlin
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Published 46 minutes ago

Developers, developers, developers!
If you didn’t think about working the following weekend (6th - 7th December, 2008) �" well here is your chance to hack away anyway! We hereby invite you to the first DevHouseBerlin! The idea is to hack and work away on whatever it is you’re working on and to show people what it is that...
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Published 14 hours ago

Vattenfall
Greenpeace (Germany) labels Vattenfall to be the most environmental unfriendly producer of energy in all Germany. Greenpeace’s study claims that Vattenfall issues 890g (gramm) CO2 per KWh (kilowatt-hour). Greenpeace says that Vattenfall’s East German brown coal power plants are alone...
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Published a day ago

In pictures
English-language books on Berlin are oddly rare, for reasons I don’t entirely understand. Trying to hunt one down on Amazon, I ran into Jason Lutes’ Berlin, a portrait of ’20s Berlin as a graphic novel. I’m pretty enthusiastic about comics; 90% are crap, but the few great successes make...
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Published a week ago

Something for the ears
This week, the BBC have been playing daily extracts from (mostly English) fiction about Berlin. It’s all available to listen online for the next few days. The pieces are: Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-33) by Christopher Isherwood Camera Obscura by Judith Hermann Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton...
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Published 2 weeks ago

BÖREK
ENCOUNTER OF THE 3RD DIMENSION Freitag, 14.November ab 19:00 ATM Gallery, Brunnenstr.24, Berlin-Mitte
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Published 3 weeks ago

Do you read me?
Looks like a sweet place for all people who love to read. [via]
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Published 4 weeks ago

Machines for living
Much as I love Tacheles and the like, the idealist in me is always faintly disappointed by how rarely what’s inside really uses the building. I’m a true believer in the idea that the buildings around us shape our emotions and our behaviour. So I fantasize that the folks involved in our social...
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Published a month ago

Tacheles
Part of 'Millennium Mythology' by Tacheles regular Alexander Rodin. The prospect of Tacheles being demolished is somehow both inevitable and unthinkable. Inevitable because in any battle between money and art, money wins. Unthinkable because Tacheles is a focal-point for so much, that I can’t...
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Published a month ago

Jazzanova
I discovered some new music for myself tonight - the radio had it playing somewhere. :-) The band is called Jazzanova (from Berlin, of course) with a song called “So far from home” (ft. Phonte). Been listening to all the samples on iTunes and Myspace and so far it’s pretty cool, easy going,...
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Published a month ago