WHERE: Riemannstr.7, 10961 Berlin (U7-Gneisenau)
WHEN: TUE-FRI 11-8, SAT & SUN 12-4
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INFO: Another Country is an English Language Second Hand Bookshop, which is mostly used as a library. We have about twenty thousand books that you can buy or borrow. You simply pay the price of a book, which you get back, minus a 1,50 Euro charge, should you choose to return it.
Another Country is also a club which hosts readings, cultural events, social evenings, filmnights and many other things.
CONTACT: info@anothercountry.de
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Short excerpt from the BBC4 documentary 'The Martians and Us' on British Science Fiction dealing with Christopher Priest's 'Fugue for a Darkening Island', SF and the issue of race.
From the Digital Bits We've just heard back from our friends over at Kino International. The good news is that they have officially confirmed that the newly-discovered footage from Fritz Lang's original version of Metropolis (which we mentioned yesterday) WILL be a part of the forthcoming special edition Blu-ray Disc release ...
ABC has created a nice new mini-site for all the literary references on "Lost". There are "lending only" copies of most of those books at the bookshop (...plus lots of copies of those books by Stephen King that Ben likes.) Washington Post blog about the books on "Lost".
GENDER. SCI-FI. HISTORY. MOVIES. BERLIN. BERLIN? Missing scenes found from Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS! film.guardian.co.uk
Premiere: 05th of August 2008; 8 p.m. at Moviemento in Berlin, Kreuzberg. Trailer and Info: www.ScienceOfHorror.de Synopsis: Horror films are pornographic and eroticise the abject. Yet, they relieve, they are humorous and challenge cultural taboos. “Science Of Horror” is the first documentary to analyze horror film from the perspective of feminist film critique. ...
US Voter Registration at the Bookshop This Friday in honor of 4th of July If you are an American and have not yet registered to vote or have friends that have not done so, this Friday is your chance, all the forms will be here along with someone to help you find ...
Thursday 26 June 8:30 TV and Game Night Some of the shows you can choose from Jeeves and Wooster, Are You Being Served?, Only Fools and Horses, Lost season 4, Blackadder, BBC Visions of the Future, The Tudors, Prisoner of Cell Block H, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Skins with more ...
Situationism. Neoism. Football. Stewart Home elaborates...
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Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, March 14, 2008; A01
BERLIN, March 13 -- Americans with PhDs beware: Telling people in Germany that you're a doctor could land you in jail.
At least seven U.S. citizens working as researchers in Germany have faced criminal probes in recent months for using the title "Dr." on their business cards, Web sites and r¿sum¿s. They all hold doctoral degrees from elite universities back home.
Under a little-known Nazi-era law, only people who earn PhDs or medical degrees in Germany are allowed to use "Dr." as a courtesy title.
The law was modified in 2001 to extend the privilege to degree-holders from any country in the European Union. But docs from the United States and anywhere else outside Europe are still forbidden to use the honorific. Violators can face a year behind bars.
Ian Thomas Baldwin, a Cornell-educated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, has stopped calling himself "Dr." ever since he was summoned for interrogation by police two months ago on suspicion of "title abuse."....Read the complete article here
