The Deutschland Diaries

Google has released top-ten lists of various things people have searched over the year 2011, under the name "Google-Zeitgeist," an...

Crowds cheering the guillotine, the brutal Marseillaise, French mobs, back-stabbing intrigue, and revolutionary politics...it's all here...

A local, independent book store on Friesenstraße in my neighborhood has a cute little window display debating e-books. The sign in the middl...

Every January 1st (since 1939) there is a famous concert by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, broadcast worldwide and very popular in Germa...

Happy New Year! Frohes Neues Jahr! We tried to pack a lot of silly German traditions into our night...after a nice New Year's Eve dinner...

 As Jessica noted the other day, as we were wandering around Karstadt, Germans seem to place a lot more emphasis on luck for New Year's...

Tonight we saw Walter Ruttmann's classic 1927 film Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt , with live musical accompaniment by the two-man e...

For dinner, we went out to Renger-Patzsch in Schöneberg, just a few U-Bahn stations away. I really liked the décor, with the stained wood a...

Schloss Bellevue

A year or two ago, a friend of mine lent me the food issue of the New Yorker, which had an article about "Spit Cake," or "Bau...