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There have been a few questions on when we lock up on event nights, we like to lock up around midnight on week-nights, around 3:30 on Friday Nights, and on weekends around 6 pm unless something special is going on.

Halloween is on Wed. this year so we will be having our Halloween Party the Friday before on the 26th of October. This is always a special night at the bookshop and should not be missed so please get on the list that you are going to come, Start planning your costume now and come as your favorite fictional person. If you are at a loss on who to be, Alan will be glad to help you come up with someone special.

The bookshop will host a workshop reading with the director of a new science fiction play on the 1st of November. This should be fun and seating will be limited more info to follow.

Sunday 14 Oct. 14:00 Bridge and Brunch Old time radio "Sherlock Holmes" Card Games, Board Games and Word Games come by today at 14:00 for our Bridge Afternoon, Learning, playing and making lots of mistakes if Alan is your partner. All is possible great fun for all.

Tuesday 16 Oct. 9 pm The Innocents (1961) Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) isn't a very experienced governess so she can't be certain, but surely orphans Miles (Martin Stephens ) and Flora (Pamela Franklin) aren't like other children. They're polite, of course, to the point of being patronising ('my dear,' they call her), and their dark, placid eyes defy suspicion, but there's something unsettling in his self-possession, macabre in her delights ('Oh, look, a lovely spider. And it's eating a butterfly!'). Having already experienced weird apparitions on her arrival at Bly, the beautiful country estate to which the children's indifferent uncle has consigned them, the governess learns of the violent deaths of her wanton predecessor and her cruel lover, and begins to suspect a supernatural cause for her charges' unsettling behaviour. And so Miss Giddens' war on terror begins; but does Bly have nothing to fear but fear itself? Adapted (byTruman Capote and John Mortimer, among others) from Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw', Jack Claytom's 1961 chiller lives up to the story's title, incrementally tightening the nerves through suggestive technical artistry in a way that few contemporary ghost stories manage. The story's profound, unsettling ambiguity is perfectly served by George Auric's soundtrack of laughs and whispers and the constricting or fleeting forms at the edges of Freddie Francis 's B&W 'Scope frame (seen here in a new print). Meanwhile, slow fades and a bravura dream sequence hint at the blurring of boundaries – between life and death, rationality and imagination – that so disturbs Miss Giddens, endowed by Kerr with a frisson of hysteria from the start. Whatever is happening, she knows it is 'something secretive and whispery and indecent'. review by

Thursday 18 Oct. 8:00 pm 8:00 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares La Lanterna The venue for the first programme is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine, a taste of Little Italy in England's first garden city, and the restaurant is run by his best mate, maitre d' Gavin, helped by Alex's ex-air hostess girlfriend Emily. Alex has no customers, cookers that don't work and an expensive menu that's about as authentically Italian as a Hawaiian Pizza. He re-mortgaged his house to buy the business, it's losing £1,000 a week, he hasn't slept for months but still runs round town in a flash car (number plate: A1CHEF) that's worth more than the restaurant. Running out of money, inspiration and energy, Alex is on the verge of losing EVERYTHING. It's a prime restaurant for a dose of TOUGH LOVE - Ramsay-style. But can a strict diet of brutal honesty, radical food surgery and undiluted energy turn things round, or is it only a matter of time before the lights go out at La Lanterna for good? D Place Gordon Ramsey looks to turn aruond the trendy cafe bar D PLACE Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack Gordon Ramsey travels to the Brighton sea front to Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack La Riviera Gordon Ramsey travels to Inverness, Scotland to turn around La Riviera

9:30 pm The Book Group (Series Two part 2 of 2) Drowning After Lachlan's accident – he fell into an empty pool while wooing Jean – he's behaving helplessly and driving Claire mad. Meanwhile, Jean moves in with Fist and Janice is troubled by her feelings for Rab. Research With the group all reading a book about sex (The Sexual History of Catherine M by Catherine Millet), Fist decides to organise an orgy involving Dirka and their husbands. A'Salaam Insh'Allah (Peace, God Willing) Clare prepares to dump Lachlan, as he prepares to propose marriage (by singing a karaoke version of Gilbert O'Sullivan's Clair). Meanwhile, Jean lands a deal for her book, Getting Over People, and a drunken Janice makes another move on Rab.

This guy calls us "quirky, silly, fun". I suppose he's right.....

And we're on City Therapy.

Right after "Das Leben der anderen" Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck did "Das Inferno" for german TV. It's bloody awful, but if you always wanted to see the tv-tower explode...

Part 2 is here: explosion in tv tower (2)

Yahoo : "The Moleskine Berlin, Germany City Book combines a notebook and city-specific map features into a book perfect for recording vacation adventures."

Never mind the strike, here are "some primarily U-Bahn (underground railway / subway) related views filmed in Berlin in April 1990, which was after the wall had been opened but when the city was still divided. "

citytransportinfo has more of those. Checkpoint Charlie and Schönhauser in 1990 for example.

The Guardian with the usual crap about Berlin

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did NOT buy a place in Berlin by the way!

Deutsche Bahn will be on strike this friday from 2 a.m. until midnight. The S-Bahn in Berlin will be affected too. Don't know whether includes the U-Bahn or not. We'll see....

THE HUNTERS is our country rock n roll smoked n cheesy cover band. If you like us personally but find our original music a bit of a chore then this is the show for you!!! come to sing along to oldies and rosties at

Baghira Monumentenstr. 29 / corner of Kreuzbergstr S or U yorckstr. Fr. 12,10 20.30

yours Hunter aka brother john and Hunter aka sister chain

it feels like a punishment he long ago adjusted to, if he does not cook there won’t be food, and it’s never even good, or not in terms that real cooks use, though in a way it’s a sign of hopefulness he never cared to master this, for the men he knows who cook so well are invariably betterhalfless, they learn by force the indelible diagonal of sleep across that bachelor bed and never change but grind away at raincolored sheets and underwear making relic filaments instead. they play

at cards in clouds and suckle hard cigars in luciferous bars called things like Hairy’s Pear, or The Bear, trading vagina jokes for pokertips with dante-aged blokes (with their) (halos of smoke and) (intestate dread over) (eye-bald) (heads)

dante exhales the sound of the wine he follows on to ted

Part One is out and it's free!

Don't miss Norman Spinrad on YouTube

Norman Spinrad - Homepage

Saturday, 6th: Crystal Ball Gallery, Schönleinstrasse 7, Berlin, 8 p.m.:

Art: Veronika Schumacher - In prison for being vicious- Vernissage Music: Kapaikos

Sunday, 7th: -Flohmarket at Wonderbar, Wiener Str. 45, starts at 1 p.m. -Bridge & other games at Another Country

Directed by Tim Burton Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter..

The longest officially-recognised place name in the United Kingdom.

Seriously, Bielefeld does not exist!

"The city council of Bielefeld tries hard to generate publicity for Bielefeld and build a nation-wide known public image of the city. Even after 13 years however, the mayors office receives numerous phone calls and Emails each day which doubt the existence of the city."

Did you hear "Kindergarten Priest" already? This band rocks and of course they are friends of ours!

Friday 5 Oct. Dinner 9pm Movie about 11pm The Others (2001) There are horror movies like The Silence of the Lambs or Alien that make you scream, clutch your date, or cover your eyes. Less typical is the film that draws you in so subtly you're almost unaware of being frightened until you feel the hair on the back of your neck suddenly rise. Jack Clayton's The Innocents (adapted from Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the mother of all modern ghost stories) produces that kind of atavistic fear response. So too does Alejandro Amenábar's The Others, which parallels The Innocents' premise of a woman desperately trying to save the two children in her care from the hellhounds that have invaded their house.

High-strung and devoutly religious, Grace (a blond Nicole Kidman, looking like a more attenuated Grace Kelly) lives in a huge Victorian house on the Isle of Jersey with her daughter and son. World War II is nearing its end, and although Grace's husband has been reported as missing in action, she refuses to accept that he's not coming home. Because the children are afflicted with a mysterious allergy to light, Grace spends most of her time frantically racing from room to room, closing doors and curtains against the sun, only to find that someone has carelessly opened them again. Are the peculiarly condescending new servants to blame? Or, as her daughter claims, are there strangers living secretly among them?

Beneath the supernatural goings-on is an au courant tale of motherhood, madness, and religious repression. While occasionally using the children as foils, Amenábar filters most of the narrative through Grace's perception. From beginning to end, Grace exists in a state of barely suppressed hysteria punctuated by moments of abject terror, all of which Kidman registers with extreme delicacy. We've seen her play this kind of trapped character before—most notably in The Portrait of a Lady—but not with such sustained, unnerved intensity. This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own.

by Amy Taubin in the VIllage Voice (NYC)

Sunday 7 Oct. 14:00 Old time radio in the Backroom come by today at 14:00 for our first Bridge Afternoon, Learning, playing and making lots of mistakes if Alan is your partner. All is possible great fun for all. Boardgames for the Bridge Illiterate and those who refuse to learn.

Tuesday 9 Oct. 9 pm Blithe Spirit (1945)

Blithe Spirit was the second of three Noël Coward adaptations produced by Lean's new company Cineguild. Ronald Neame, co-founder of the company alongside producer Anthony Havelock-Allan, was again the director of photography, and the film was another Technicolor production. Coward himself performed the witty introductory voice-over. With its cast of distinguished comedy actors, the film did well with post-war audiences, but Coward professed himself disappointed with the result, although Lean had warned him that 'high comedy' was not really his forte.

The film is stylish. The action is set at the Condomines' comfortable upper middle-class home in Kent, and great care was taken to ensure the right look for the set. An actor like Rex Harrison was quite at ease in the world of the play, but Lean himself reportedly found it not to his own taste. The special effects are convincing and Lean's lighting and framing give it visual interest. The action is stagey, so all depends on the cast and they play wonderfully, even though Harrison was considered by some to look too young for the role of the middle-aged Charles. Kay Hammond and Margaret Rutherford had created their roles on the stage; the play premiered at London's Piccadilly Theatre on 1941 and was still running when Coward invited Lean to make a film version.

Hammond, in her floaty green chiffon gown, green hair and pale make-up, is a sexy and mischievous Elvira, employing her throaty, theatrical drawl to good comic effect. The American actress Constance Cummings' Ruth, by contrast, is brisk and sensible. Margaret Rutherford's performance of Madame Arcati has passed into theatre legend and she recreates the role of the eccentric and rather incompetent medium effectively for film. Her joy at the realisation that she has actually managed to summon up a spirit is beautifully judged.

review by Janet Moat from the bfi Screenonline

Great location for a party..down to the roots, proper shoes recommended..strictly dubstep more info

209 Books have been left around Berlin free for the taking in the last 30 days. Want to go on a search for one of these books or maybe leave one you have finished reading? Check out bookcrossing* At BookCrossing, you can register any book you have on the site, and then set the book free to travel the world and find new readers.Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel next. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.

*bookcrossing: n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise. (added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)