The sweet smell of spring

Don't you just love the springtime? With its vibrant colours, its soft new babygreen leaves, the sweet smells in the air?
The way the streets suddenly seem to fill with chairs and tables and people warming their pale winter skin in the sun?
It's like a yearly reminder that however cold and dark and grey it might get, however bleak and skinny the trees; things will always get better eventually, life will come to life again.

The writing's on the wall

@ Rosenthaler strasse. I wish all advertising space could be used like this...

**NEWS FLASH** Arctic Monkeys have their own store in Kreuzberg!

In the Falckensteinstraße, to be exact...

Kool Klaxons Kids

Where did all the kool kids go yesterday? They were at Kreuzberg's Lido, five hundred of them, all packed into the small venue to see the Klaxons, who proved how exciting new music can be. The Britisch press 've already got a name for this music of course, they call it 'New Rave'.
And rave they did.

They waved too, with their fluorescent sticks and bracelets. Haven't seen those since 1992. I'm getting old.

The Klaxons in axion:

Veteranenstrasse, Mitte

Could it be?

March is usually totally unpredictable, but could it be that spring is in the air already? At least in the Schliemannstrasse in Prenzlberg the chairs and tables are outside again.
Can't wait for summer...

Berli-no-le

I guess not everyone's happy the Berlinale-promi-Hollywood-circus is in town...