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Germany has a lot of fine qualities, but being hip isn't usually thought to be one of them. Up-and-coming artists, especially ones from abroad, used to flock to London, Amsterdam or New York City rather than Hamburg, Munich or Cologne. As for Berlin, it hasn't been on the international cool list since Christopher Isherwood lived in the city in the early 1930s and chronicled the demise of its rambunctious culture under the Nazis. If foreigners came to visit, they were hippies, spies, U.S. Presidents or peeping tourists curious to catch a glimpse of communism from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hip Berlin: Europe's Capital of Cool | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...treelined boulevard that was Germany's answer to Paris' Champs Elysées, led eastwards from the Brandenburg Gate to an island on the Spree packed with neoclassical museums. Behind that was Mitte and the residential district of Prenzlauer Berg. When the Wall went up, the East went down; fine apartment buildings, many of them damaged in the war, decayed further. Some areas were entirely razed to make way for the Wall and the death strips either side of it. West Berliners moved out into what had been leafy suburbs and the center of commercial life moved west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hip Berlin: Europe's Capital of Cool | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...done a nude scene for the sake of it. There's obviously films that my children haven't seen--Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Young Adam. But they'll see them when they're older, and I don't have many worries about that. I'm sure they'll be fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ewan McGregor | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Later in the half, Garon Smith made another fine save to stop Crimson senior midfielder Adam Rousmaniere’s shot from a tight angle...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tourney Bound | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...likely would have been granted three foul shots if the long try had not gone in, but the outcome suited Lin just fine...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lin's Triple-Overtime Shot Gives Harvard Thrilling Win | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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