...of the web site idea on thebluecrane.com

The bookshop will have it's own building soon. Right now it's located on the second floor of the house that Stefano Sternberg built. Still a lot of work left to do. Here are some snapshots.

Have a look at what our friends over at thebluecrane.com set up and please feel free to comment on it. Usability, are we missing something etc. It should be black and white, we know that already.

There is a table of contents on the left side now. The category "Another Country" is only for entries like this one plus gossip, reviews, photos from the shop and whatever else you come up with.

Events (like whatever movie is on!) are filed under events from now on, ok? So, if you get the latest entry in that section, you click on events and you should find what you're looking for. I will update some of the previous entries, but not all of them. So, some old trailers will still be filed under "movies", but, hey, the events are over anyway!

If you wanna use the bookshops typography for flyers or somethiong like that, it|s called Eccentrical and it|s for free. The font is here or just look here.

"Down in the heart of Kreuzberg, where the punks and the Turks like to play, the Another Country bookshop is a cosy place where they do not seem to mind if you sit in a comfy chair and read for a while."

Read on...

plus some more minor changes. I keep updating the faq-section in the back. Maybe one of the administrators could correct my English. I'm from Moldavia, you know....

Updated: www.anothercountry.de/

We will have open meetings every sunday afternoon in february to discuss the future of the filmclub and various other things. More info soon.

Updated!

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THURSDAY Night will a mix of TV and Showtime's Documentry The Cockettes info from the IMDb "Documentary about a late 1960s-early 1970s San Francisco theatre group called the Cockettes. They all lived together in a commune and were quite a mix...gay, straight, bi, men, women. They all wore incredible, colorful costumes (most of the guys were in drag) and put on musicals that were very mean, vicious, explicitally sexual...and hilarious!

This is a truly incredible movie about an unjustly forgotten group. The movie includes some footage of the actual stage shows they put on along with interviews of the surviving cast members. It gives a view of the 1960s in San Francisco that I've never seen. Just absorbing from the word go. A must see!

Highlight--their parody of Tricia Nixon's wedding is hysterical.

See it!!!!!"

FRIDAY will be light Buffet and The Searchers see preview above SATURDAY normal shop hours

SUNDAY The bookstore will be a refuge for those wanting to hide from all the New Year madness, arrive before Midnight and stay until everyone has run out of Fireworks....

How about a list of "Best 2006"-lists...?

There is a table of contents on the left side. The category "Another Country" is only for gossip, photos from the shop, reviews about the shop and whatever else you come up with.

Events (like whatever movie is on!) are filed under events from now on, ok? So, if you get the latest entry in that section, you click on events and you should find what you're looking for.

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Visit "the other blog"!

The first compilation of songs & poems from the basement of "Another Country". Writers, musicians and regulars pay tribute to the legendary club which looks like a bookshop.

The line-up looks quite impressive already, but you can still be on the cd yourself. Contact us, send us your material via mail or email or drop it at the shop.

If you don't know how to record your poem about the shop or whatever you come up with, contact us anyway and we work something out with our sound engineers.

The cd will be a real audio-cd with professional mixing, booklet, real distribution and all that.

Here is a preview:

A preview of our upcoming CD! Enjoy!