Yes, we have also entered that new 3D-world Google set up. You will find it in the first comment for this story. Right now it only works with Explorer or Firefox on a PC and you need a Google-Acount to log in and download the installer. Whatever....

It doesn't look very pretty yet, but the interesing thing is that you can integrate this into any website and chat with people ho are on the same page. You don'thave to start an extra-program like Second Life. It's all happening wihin the browser.

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 where you need to send them and answer any questions you have. Let´s make every Vote count this time.

Week at a Glance....

Tuesday 01 July Outrageous (1977) Richard Benner (100 min.) Crag Russell as Bette Davis

Thursday 03 June 8:30 TV and Game Night Some of the shows you can choose from 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 to be added soon!

Friday 04 June Dinner at 9:30 and West Wing throughout the Night 4th of July at the Bookshop Americans come register to Vote

Saturday 05 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 06 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Monday 07 June Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 08 July Must See Film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Stanly Kubrick

Wednesday 09 July Live Music Night 8:30pm Daphne & Dave the one and only acoustic indie cello/guitar pop duo from Australia & New Zealand! Daphne Owers and Dave Sills are an acoustic duo who perform their original songs with cello and guitar accompaniment. Ranging from the comic to the sublime, their songs touch on many aspects of everyday alternative life from vegetarianism to ex-patism, visualism to heartbreak hotel. Daphne Owers is an indie pop and electro musician from New Zealand who has fronted several rock bands and musical projects including current Berlin-based electro duo the Post Modern Pants. www.myspace.com Dave Sills is a classically trained celloist from Australia who has played in literally dozens of musical configurations ranging from Bach to pop to tango, jazz to experimental music to Daphne & Dave! Suki Osman

Suki plays bewitching melodies with delicacy and force. The hybrid of folk, rock and soul, influenced from everyday occurrences to life changing events, is a magic that envelops the whole room. so sit by the fire, contemplate the past, long for the future, and stare together as the sun sets over the last vestiges of our happy time together.

TRIVIA QUESTION Who was the first President to live in the White House? Last weeks answer... Before returning to Canada as a hair dresser what famous person did Crag Russell work as an assistant for in Los Angeles? Mae West

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 to be added soon!

Friday 27 June Dinner at 9:30 and film around 11:30 Must See Films series! Brought back by popular demand..... Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) John Cameron Mithchell (95 min.)

Saturday 28 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 29 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Monday 30 June Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 01 July Outrageous (1977) Richard Benner (100 min.)

Thursday 02 July 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 to be added soon!

Friday 04 July We are going to have Info in the shop on how Americans can register to Vote in honor of 4th of July, More Information will follow on the next mailing.

TRIVIA QUESTION Before returning to Canada as a hair dresser what famous person did Crag Russell work as an assistant for in Los Angeles? Last weeks answer... Stanley Kubrick used what criteria in choosing Sue Lyon fir the role as Lolita? The size of her breasts, it was felt that a flat chested sexually active young girl would not get past the censors.

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Get the code for this one over here and make your own while you're there.

In case you missed the link on the side: A man and his country - Expatica.com

A wicked Set that will leave you with enough darkness to Warm Your Heart for a month!!!

Tuesday 10 June around 8.30 German Films in June series continues... Münchhausen (1943) Josef von Báky (German with English Subs)

Thursday 12 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 and Skins with more to be added soon!

Friday 13 June Dinner at 9:30 and film around 11:30 German Films in June series continues with with ..... Schultze Gets the Blues (2003) Michael Schorr (English and German with English Subs)

Saturday 14 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 15 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Monday 16 June Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 17 June around 8.30 About Schmidt (2002) Alexander Payne TRIVIA QUESTION What month has the longest days in the Northern Hemisphere? Last weeks answer... Which famous director as a favour to Ken Adams did the lighting for the Atlantis set on The Spy Who Loved Me? Stanley Kubrick extra credit... The Spy Who Loved Me Bond Girl Barbara Bach is married to which 60´s icon? Ringo Star

Tuesday 03 June around 8:30 German Films in June Veronica Voss (1982) R.W. Fassbinder (German with English Subtitles)

Thursday 05 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 and Skins with more to be added soon!

Friday 06 June Dinner at 9:30 and film around 11:30 The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen (1988) Terry Gilliam

Saturday 07 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 08 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Monday 09 June Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 10 June around 8.30 German Films in June series continues with.... Münchhausen (1943) Josef von Báky (German with English Subs)

TRIVIA QUESTION Which famous director as a favour to Ken Adams did the lighting for the Atlantis set on The Spy Who Loved Me? extra credit... The Spy Who Loved Me Bond Girl Barbara Bach is married to which 60´s icon? Last weeks answer... What is the width of a razor blade? the average width is 30 µm

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Week at a Glance....

Tuesday 27 May around 8:30 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Stephen Spielberg

Wensday 28 May 8:00 Reading Group Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Thursday 29 May 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, Blackadder, BBC Visions of the Future, The Tudors and Skins with more to be added soon!

Friday 30 May Dinner at 9 and film around 10:30 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder

Saturday 31 May Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 01 June Bookshop open 12-6pm

Monday 02 June Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 03 May around 8.30 Veronica Voss (1982) R.W. Fassbinder (German with English Subtitles)

those of you who haven't been to see Sister Chain's amazing comics in the gallery neurotitan have been very bad boys and girls indeed!. I'm taking them down tomorrow at 20:00. However, you could still come to the

finissage party in Eschloraque at 22:00

so be good.

Thursday 08 May 8:30 pm TV Night, a bunch of new TV shows added to the Mix to choose from, most of them requests! The new Lost episodes, Only fools and Horses, Jeeves & Wooster plus many more.

Friday 09 May First in Berlin - This film did not get a German release Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) Goran Dukic Saturday 10 May Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 11 May Bookshop open 12-6pm

Monday 12 May Bookshop Closed

The ExBerliner

Alan was the coverboy for the September issue of "The Exberliner"!

The Harvard Center for European Studies Berlin did a long interview which should answer a lot of questions about the bookshop.

Expatica.com - A man and his country :"Alan Raphaeline has played a chief role in expat life in Berlin with his bohemian haunt, the Another Country bookstore. And he says he can't imagine leaving the place he describes as "the ideal living room," with over 25,000 books, masses of living space and its own social scene packed into one building."

From the print-edition of "Lonely Planet Berlin": "Another Country is a welcoming 'culture club' owned by bearded and slightly eccentric Brit, Alan Raphaeline. Knowledgeable and always up for a chinwag, he presides over a meticulously sorted library/store of used English-language books, including a vast science fiction collection. You can borrow or buy, join the book club, come for film screenings and poetry readings, or simply hang out on the sofas."

The Berlin Review: "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."

The Berlin Paper/ Quirky, cozy Another Country in Kreuzberg 61 is more of a library than an actual bookstore. Regulars come for weekly cultural events, stay for the staff's British humor. The latter being said: don't ask where the "Dan Brown" books are located.

Kilometer Zero / The store meets all the needs of a bookshop—you might not find a specific title but you’ll always be able to walk out with a book you’ll be pleased to read—but it also reaches for that deeper desire, the desire for community. * If you’re in this town for any length of time, life would be a little better if you dropped by here.

Berlin Guide /Alex, the English guy who runs the place is a bit quirky, but after a few visits he'll warm up to you. There seems to be a system for returning books you've bought at the store for credit, with color-coded labels to indicate how much you'll get back, but I'm fairly sure Alex makes them up on the spot." (The quirky gentleman is called Alan, not Alex, by the way.)

"The Urban Travel Guide": "Expat bookstores often hover between a comforting taste of home and an irritating nexus of smug trustafarians. Paris's Shakespeare and Company is full of bearded pretentious Americans reenacting Hemingway sans talent. Happily, Berlin's Another Country, a large English-language bookstore, doesn't fall into the muck of a 1,000 poseurs."

"The Nylon Girl": "Amy and I met Sean, originally from Philly but now working a theater technician and celebrating his 12th year in Berlin. He spoke English softly and haltingly, his accent no doubt tempered by years of speaking deutsch. (...) Sean told us about Alan, the British man who founded and owns the bookstore, whom I had the pleasure to meet a couple of days later. While holding a big pot of cabbage soup...."

NY magazine's Winter Travel 2002 special: "A young generation of artists (and would-be artists), lured by rock-bottom rents, edgy nightlife, and an "up for it," liberal culture, are singing Berlin's praises. Darius James is busy. Not the New York busy of constantly ringing cell phones or Palm pilots impossibly filled with appointments, but Berlin busy, which is something else entirely. "There's my book proposal about voodoo," the slim African-American writer explains while sipping coffee with a group of fellow expats in a Berlin bookstore called Another Country. "Then there's a film project I'm collaborating on with Philip Virus, which is based on Nation of Islam theology about the creation of the white race. Oh, and I've got an interview with Bootsy Collins tomorrow for a German techno magazine." Read the story in the New York Magazine

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."

papertools about "Another Country"

The shop is no. 7 of the 25 top locations in Berlin on MyDayTrip.com, a social network for globetrotters : "Part bookshop, part library, this eclectic, brainy hub is a "country" of its own. The "cult" leader of "Another Country" is Alan Raphaeline, who would be more than happy to challenge anyone and everyone in extemporaneous discussions/debates about almost any topic (except for Harry Potter)."

Review in TimeOut Berlin 2002

Berliner Zeitung: "Another Country: Der kleine Laden in der Riemannstraße ist etwas ganz Besonderes. Mysteriös, fast märchenhaft, mutet der Verkaufsraum an, der mit Sofas, Sessln und einem blauen Küchenbuffet eingerichtet ist. Im Hinterzimmer bunte Bücherregale und ein schwerer Holztisch, an dem sich zwei Herren bei einem Glas Sherry auf Englisch unterhalten. Dieser Sprache sollte man als Kunde mächtig sein, denn es gibt keine Bücher auf Deutsch. Die Auswahl ist sehr groß und vielfältig: alle möglichen Genres von Mainstream bis Reiseliteratur. Neben dem großen allgemeinen Angebot kann man im Keller in einer riesigen Abteilung unter etwa 6000 englischsprachigen Science Fiction-Taschenbüchern stöbern. Alan, der Inhaber, hat den Laden vor sieben Jahren eröffnet und sich ein eigenes Konzept ausgedacht: Die Bücher können in einem Leihverfahren jederzeit wieder zurückgebracht werden, man bekommt dafür den Einkaufspreis minus 1,50 Euro zurück. So entfallen lästige Leihfristen und Mahngebühren. Wer neben neuen Büchern auch Filme und andere Menschen kennen lernen möchte, der kann jeden Dienstag und Freitag um 21 Uhr den English Language Filmclub besuchen.

(Berliner Zeitung, 4.10.2006, S. 27)

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