“We’re a Culture, Not a Costume” in Germany: Confronting and Informing the Ignorant

Rainald Grebe (artist/performer/comedian) slowly walks out on-stage in a slow, manner as if lacking intellect, while dressed in a pathetic mish-mash of Indianer (the German word for Native Americans of North America), and the audience immediately begins to laugh. That’s the intro for one of Rainald Grebe’s stage shows. It is not funny. Upcoming December, […]

A Far Cut Above the Average “Corner Kniepe”: Martinique Restaurant & Bar

Berlin has traditionally been known for its many restaurants, bars, and cafès, among other things, but in this modern age of intense gentrification and money demanding change in some areas, Martinique Restaurant & Bar is actively resisting that trend. Where historical neighborhoods are losing their souls and hearts with the huge influx of people arriving […]

Book Trailer for “Variance” A Short Story Collection by Red Haircrow, Coming Sept. 23, 2013

Description: From the author of “The Agony of Joy”, winner of the  Global Ebook Awards 2013 in Best LGBT Fiction, Variance is a collection of ten short stories and novellas by Red Haircrow ranging from contemporary to fantasy, the surreal and thought-provoking to the innocently poignant. Although some see “variance” as suggestive of disharmony, it […]

Global Ebook Awards 2013, Best LGBT Fiction: “The Agony of Joy” by Red Haircrow

2013 GLOBAL EBOOK AWARD WINNER: BEST LGBT FICTION It’s one of those things…well, it’s one of those things I never actively think of: winning an award, but I know what The Agony of Joy meant to me. It’s fiction, but it’s also my story in that it is based on real life situations I’ve dealt […]

Kater-Holzig: Daddy Hemingway & Bad Bitches Club, 1 August 2013

Thursday night, 1 August at the Kater-Holzig bar, club, outside venue kinda thing, whatever it’s exact genre or theme, I simply do not know. Don’t know what to call it, but it’s one of those places I’d never go voluntary in a million years. Trying to hard to hip, trendy and trashy and drawing all […]