So, who is Joseph?

UK Indymedia

Hey, what about this egroup idea... easy and more 'club' than the Blog.

groups.yahoo.com

Try it! It's fun! It's free! What more do you want?

Malc

No, seriously!

Wikipedia: Ahmet Ertegün

Go here!

Back by popular demand:

Spiegel Online International has a story about my new book...

Also: big discussion over at The Scotsman.

Penguin's Berlin Guide: "You'll find Another Country not far from western Kreuzberg's Bergmanstraße. It's more than just a second-hand English bookstore though: they have around 20,000 used books which are for sale, but if you find you're running out of shelf space they'll take your purchases back and refund the purchase price - minus a €1.50 fee per book. Almost a sort of library, and with some nice chairs to sit and browse in.

Reading isn't the only activity on the menu: Another Country runs all kind of events, including an English film club, a TV night and a dinner night. Check out the (slightly chaotic-looking) blog, particularly the events section for current information."

CHAOTIC-LOOKING?

The author will read and answer questions on the 12th of May (8 p.m.) over at our dear friends from "Otherland" around the corner.

Otherland, Another Country, get it?

The 5 Percent says: "We have noticed that there is a lack here in Berlin of a really good alternative magazine written in English, despite the fact that English is almost certainly the second language of Berlin (perhaps aside from Turkish) and the place is jam-packed with English-speakers of a creative bent, looking to find their way in a vast and sometimes forbidding city."

More at their MySpace

"Le Petit Laboratoire is an alternative place (3 rooms) in Berlin, created by Aymeri Zaghdoudi and Mathilde Bouvard. Open since November 2006 closed to the Boxaghener Platz, it's a Galerie, a Bar, a Boutique (Sweets from Provence and Accessories of Creators from Japan, France, Germany, Finland...) and an Atelier.They make a lot of differents events inside: Concerts, Art-Performances, Vernissages, Meetings, Parties..."

Check out their MySpace

"The British Council reading groups now meet in Berlin in our partner bookshops and libraries.

Here are details of where and when the groups will meet in May:

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - facilitator Jan Bild

Wednesday May 23rd at 18:15, Ingeborg-Drewitz Bibliothek, (3rd Floor Schloss Center at U-Bahn Rathaus Steglitz)

or Thursday May 24th at 19.30 at the Hundt Hammer Stein Buchhändler, Alte Schönhauser Str 23/24, U8 Weinmeisterstrasse

or Thursday May 31st at 19.00 at the Buchkantine, Essener Strasse 11, U9 Turmstrasse.

"The American Boy" by Andrew Taylor is to be discussed at Saint Georges Bookshop in Wörtherstrasse on Monday May 21st at 19.30.

Jeremy's choice for May is "The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai The group will meet on Wednesday May 30th at 8pm at Another Country bookshop, Riemannstr 7 in 10961 Berlin. "

More at The British Council

The open air cinema in the middle of Kreuzberg is back. They show movies in their original language only.

The Bookshop will be closed today.

Well we all kinda expected this sooner or later...The achingly silent behemoth on Torstr. ecke Prenzlauer Allee, once home to SED büros, the Hitlerjugend, and a Jewish-owned department store will be the latest SOHO club, yet another refuge for jet-setting douchebags with way too much money.