Very nice!

"Our House - an old factory building from the turn of the century - was restored and expanded in 1995. The typical Berlin-Kreuzberg charme was kept with bright and spacious rooms and a quiet backyard. On each floor you can find large restrooms. To keep a private atmosphere we do not have TV or telephone in the rooms. International calls can be held at any time from the lobby."

Homepage

Those would be perfect for the shop...

The story of the rise and fall of Charles Foster Kane. A film by, and with Orson Welles, by many belived to be the best film ever made.

Watch it right here:

By the way, try clicking the "full screen" button...!

Pop Goes the Library - Using Pop Culture to Make Libraries Better.

Biologists Helping Bookstores - Reshelving pseudo-scientific nonsense since 2007

Here is a rare video from 1989. The quality aint too good, but now there is no doubt that the Hoff ended the cold war on his own.

Short clip about the first anniversary of the wall -Universal Newsreel (1962/08/16)

Video from the 80s: Down by the Wall (what movie is this from?)

Video: Crossing the Berlin border on the S-Bahn (late '80s)

Video: Tearing down the wall at Potsdamer Platz 12th of November 1989

Newseum: The Berlin Wall Interactive

Wikipedia: The Berlin Wall (lots of links!)

City Maps: The Berlin Wall - Map with sectors and districts

The producers of "Lost" want you to watch this!

Telekom has an english language version of their "Auskunft" which you can reach from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. under 11837.

Prices are 2o cent plus 99 cent for every minute though...

Well.....!

Film starts at 9 p.m.

This week we have this brilliant documentary produced by Channel 4 : "Nazi Pop Twins is a one-off, one hour documentary where filmmaker James Quinn investigates the controversial American pop band Prussian Blue, whose teenage twin girl stars have made headlines across the world with their white nationalist music and as poster girls of neo-Nazism. (...) Filmed over a year, Nazi Pop Twins follows James as he is invited into the home of the Gaede family where he aims to discover the secrets of the twin's notoriety and the motivation behind their controversial music.

As the family allow James and the cameras into their lives, he discovers some disturbing truths beneath the happy family image that determined mother/manager April likes to project. Is she, in fact, just using Lamb and Lynx as a mouthpiece for her own extremist views?"

Wikipedia: Prussian Blue

Channel 4 - Watch programme clip >

Prussian Blue - The Homepage

"Using enCompassCulture you will be able to establish links to other Reading Groups around the world.

The choices for August are "Miss Webster and Charif" by Patricia Duncker at either Ingeborg- Drewitz Bibliothek, or Hundt Hammer Stein or Buchkantine and "The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox" by Maggie O'Farrell at Saint Georges English Bookshop.

Jeremy's group will next meet will next meet at "Another Country" bookshop on August 15th to discuss "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

If you would like to join the reading group, please send Jeremy an E-mail (jrj_dunn@yahoo.co.uk).

Info, dates, locations, reviews and information on the authors

Synopses & Reviews for "The Remains of the Day"

Publisher Comments: The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving "a great gentleman." But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness" and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served.

Reviews: "Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel depicts his adopted England with the same precision of language which painted his native Japan in An Artist of the Floating World . This is 1950's England as seen through the eyes of Stevens, one of the last remaining true butlers, who lives only to do his duty, to serve his master and humanity in the hope of preserving justice throughout the world.

But as Stevens undertakes a journey to the West Country that ultimately becomes a journey into his past we realize, as does he himself, that his view of the world is strangely double-edged, blurred by a shiny veneer of self-deception. Slowly a sterile, duty-bound life of missed opportunities and stifled emotions arises as Stevens prepares to face his old age. And, as the bastion of the English nobility, when his vision begins to waver, a whole strata of society starts to crumble and a different story emerges. Beautifully written and hauntingly poignant." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)

"The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone...of a most impressive novelist." Julian Barnes

"Brilliant...a story both beautiful and cruel." Salman Rushdie

"A perfect novel. I couldn't put it down." Ann Beattie

"A virtuoso performance...put on with dazzling daring and aplomb." The New York Review of Books

"Brilliant and quietly devastating." Newsweek "An intricate and dazzling novel." The New York Times

"One of the best books of the decade." The Boston Globe

"One of the best books of the year." The New York Times Book Review

"There are currently five British Council reading groups in Berlin- reading and discussing books in English.

They are made up of people who love to read and discuss books. Here is how they work. Members choose a book for discussion, everyone reads it and the group then meets to talk about it. The meetings are friendly and informal and are held monthly. Each group has a facilitator who helps to guide the discussion."

The British Council has more info, contact, calendar, listings of the books discussed etc.

This month under the antlers, Landwehr Canal, Records, The Amen Break, Graefekietz, Don King, Dorit Chrysler (Queen of the Theremin) and diverse photos - follow the links to Dorfdisco for reviews of The Gossip, Sonic Youth and Guitar Wolf. Unter den roten Geweihen

Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Chabon and all that

Great literary website!

The Dick Cavett Show, September 5, 1969

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• Groucho Marx & Lord Buckley (You Bet Your Life October 11, 1956 A rare TV appearance by his Lordship.)

• Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra (1951)

• Dinah Shore & Groucho Marx sing "Peesie Weesie"

• You bet your life - Paul Anderson & Groucho Marx

• Groucho Marx- You bet your life -clip

• Groucho Marx sings "Show Me a Rose"

• More Marx Brothers on Google Video

• Archive.org: You bet your Life - Downloads of all radio shows (16Kbps MP3)

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