Berlin Roundup

Robert S. Porter | Uncategorized | Saturday, May 9th, 2009
  • Berliners like to have fun with shop names.
  • Shopping is continuing in Berlin despite the economy.
  • Gunther von Hagen’s latest creation–plastinized sex–is causing more controversy.
  • Berlin’s famed Jewish Museum is going to expand.
  • Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin says that the Neues Museum’s Nefertiti bust is fake.
  • The annual (and planned) May Day riot was the worst in years.
  • Nicholas Berggruen plans to open a second art museum in Berlin.

Berlin Roundup

Robert S. Porter | Uncategorized | Saturday, April 25th, 2009
  • Yet another unexploaded WWII bomb has been found in Berlin, this time near the Neues Museum.
  • More than 2000 German Tamil’s protested near the Brandenburg Gate.
  • Berlin is partying like it’s 1989‘. I’m looking forward to being in Berlin on November 9.
  • Berlin is set to vote tomorrow about allowing school children to choose between secular ethics class and relgion class.
  • Berlin doctors remove 40lb tumor from woman.
  • A number of artists are refusing to participate in a restoration of Berlin Wall art.

Berlin Roundup

Robert S. Porter | Uncategorized | Monday, April 13th, 2009
  • A story on The Wall twenty years on.
  • Despite unification taking place twenty years ago, a few ministries are still located in Bonn.
  • A dromedary camel was born at the Berlin Zoo. Apparently some think it’s cute.
  • Woman dives into Polar Bear tank at the Berlin Zoo. Get’s mauled. Zoo not changing anything. Darwin++
  • The Producer’s and the tap dancing Nazi’s are set to perform in Berlin. Tension ensues.
  • Germany’s economy has yet to bottom. I plan to take advantage.

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