Welcome to Earth, Tiny Baby Polar Bear
Today, I met a bear. Not in the wild, where I’d be reluctant to meet a bear, but on the Internet, where tiny, perfect…
Nine Dead and 50 Wounded After Truck Crashes Into Berlin Christmas Market in Possible Terror Attack
The Associated Press is reporting that nine people have died and at least 50 were wounded Monday night when a truck…
A Teenager Dressed as a Clown Got Stabbed After Trying to Scare His Friends
Maybe because it’s close to Halloween, maybe because the world is spinning off its axis straight into hell, but creepy…
Meryl Streep Addresses 'We're All Africans' Controversy in Huffington Post Blog
Meryl Streep, who was recently catapulted into the #OscarsSoWhite controversy after telling a reporter at the Berlin…
After Provoking Outrage, German Teenager Admits to Making False Rape Allegations Against Migrants
In mid-January, protests erupted in Berlin after a 13-year-old German-Russian girl claimed that migrants of either…
What It Took to Hide in Nazi Germany: An Excerpt from Underground in Berlin
Marie Jalowicz Simon spent the Holocaust hiding from the Nazis—living underground in Berlin, keeping to the fringes of…
Remembering an “Edifice of Fear”
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 09: Hulda, 3, places flowers in between slats of the former Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall…
The Barefoot Ghost of Lady Gaga Haunts Berlin
Be careful! You'll catch your death of cold like that… oh wait.
Popular 'Jew In The Box' Exhibition At Berlin's Jewish Museum Unsurprisingly Elicits Controversy
As a Jewish person, I feel pretty confident in saying that it's almost inevitable that putting a Jewish person in a…
Grindr Users Also Love Posing In Front of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial
Yesterday we wrote about a fashion blogger who was so inspired by Berlin's uber-chic Memorial to the Murdered Jews of…
Fashion Blogger Super Inspired by Chic Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
Visitors to Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe know the maze of concrete slabs is a powerful and…
Baby Hippo Would Love to Make You Sunday Pancakes, but He Doesn't Have Any Hands
BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 07: A baby hippopotamus born November 23 rides for a moment on its mother's back at Zoo…
Strike a Pose, There's Nothing to It
A competitor performs on the catwalk at the first German Voguing Festival in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012.…
If Only Your High School English Teacher Had Been This Devoted
Paul Marino in the role of King Henry VIII leads spectators to a location in William Shakespeare's Utopia, based on a…
Stop, Collaborate and Listen...
The main dancer of a traditional Thailand dance group prepares for a performance during the annual Carnival of Cultures…
So Many Santas, So Little Time
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 26: Volunteer Santas attend their annual meeting at the Komoedie am Kurfuerstedamm theater…
Dress Means No
Berlin, Aug 13: A woman attends the Berlin 'SlutWalk,' which organizers described as a demonstration against those who…
"Sexy Nun" Hot For Fall 2011
Berlin, Jan 22: A model walks the catwalk at the Black Noir Show during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Autumn/Winter…
Riding To School On A One-Mom Open Sleigh
[Germany, December 20: A woman pulls her son to school on a sled on a snow-covered sidewalk in Berlin. Image via Getty.]
It's Back To School For Aspiring Female Engineers
[Berlin, September 1: Mechanical engineering trainees get comfortable in the workshop while they learn the tools of…