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...other gentle dyes. Walking to his spacious studio, in one of Berlin's countless courtyards, he stops off to admire handmade surfboards in a store, and then heads to his favorite café where a Korean barista makes him a cappuccino that meets his Italian standards. Berlin is "a place for new beginnings," Grazioli says. "Being in an unfinished place has a huge impact on you. In Milan I wouldn't have allowed myself to do something...
...decades after the Wall that cut through Berlin's heart came tumbling down, the city is once again a happening place, drawing a host of international designers, writers, architects, musicians and visual artists like Grazioli, some just to visit, many to stay. The influx is transforming the city. "Yes, artists from all over the world are now living in Berlin and, some nights, they all seemed to end up on my living-room sofa," says Jeffrey Eugenides, the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who lived in Berlin from 1999 to 2003 and goes back every summer. "It's a much...
...During the Cold War era it was a magnet for young West German gays, punks and pacifists who got out of doing military service by moving there. They remain an important part of the culture: there are still squats in derelict buildings, and a vibrant, semilegal club scene. "The place still has an outlawish feel," says James Docwra, who works for an agency that books DJs. But in the transition from hippy to hip, some of the anarchy of earlier times has gone, particularly since the government moved from Bonn in the 1990s. Birkenstocks have made way for handmade...
...this sometimes jarring juxtaposition of old and new is emerging an ethos of environmental correctness; this is a place where seemingly every second grocery store stocks only organic produce in a minimum of recyclable packaging, where new Mercedes owners apologize that they didn't buy a hybrid, and where the most used adjective is the word sustainable. There's even an acronym for this attitude, dreamed up by a consultant: LOHAS, which stands for Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability...
...those of us that don’t follow the UC and only hear little snippets of what they’re up to, it’s kind of like a joke, and it’s good to have candidates that come from that same place,” said Luke L. Sperduto...