There’s a saying used often in New York, sometimes genuine, sometimes forced, whenever people come upon something special, or experience something unusual. There is a particularly insipid section of the New York Times dedicated to it every Monday, called “Metropolitan Diary,” and while it has become something of a cliché, New Yorkers use it proudly [...]
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Only In Berlin
Posted in Art, General Musings, tagged Micamoca, Reichstag, Wedding Amtsgericht on 29/09/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Berlin as the Perfect Setting for Film or Roman Noir
Posted in Literature, tagged Nazi era, NPR, Philip Kerr, Weimar era on 14/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. … That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.” Read and listen to a story about [...]
