Get your glitz on this winter at the Berlinale, a prestigious film festival that's surprisingly accessible to the public. The Berlin International Film Festival shows about 400 films within ten days, mostly international or European premieres. Films of every genre, length and format find their place in the various sections: great international cinema in the Competition, independent and art 続き...

transmediale celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012, and as always it's a fascinating look at the weird and wonderful world of digital art. This year, the arts festival celebrating digital culture wraps their program around the theme "in/compatible." Everything seems to connect in our network culture, but not everything fits or works together. What artistic imaginations arise from this 続き...

The exhibition Navigating Darkness transforms Tape Club from a black-walled nightclub to a shadowy art world. The dark cavernous space is punctuated by a constellation of works that shine, reflect, or cast 続き...

Miniloft apartment's neighborhood museum, the stellar contemporary art behemoth Hamburger Bahnhof, has another wondrous winner of an exhibition. Visitors float in Tomás Saraceno's hanging bubble gardens and are immersed in utopian installations that shatter traditional concepts of place, time, gravity and 続き...

Tickets for a concert directed Daniel Barenboim are usually hard to come by - but not this weekend. Show up early with a picnic, blanket and sunscreen, for a free outdoor concert on the famous Bebelpatz. The Staatsoper presents Staatskapelle Berlin, performing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 F-Minor, op. 続き...

Each autumn the literary world descends upon Berlin for a ten day festival of readings and discussions. Meet the personalities behind the pages; follow their words on a rhythmic journey across nations and cultures in eighteen different venues across 続き...

Mica Moca Project is a quintessentially Berlin space - an old factory, beautifully crumbling, taken over by artists and filled with rotating art shows, dance performances, experimental music and chamber classical concerts. Of course the building has been sold to a developer so it's only in existence until the end of September. Catch an opening or a show while you can! It's easy and quick to get 続き...

The DesignPanoptikum, or Museum of Extraordinary Objects, is a treasure trove of the strange and unexpected. The shop front, in a dingy Plattenbau on Torstraße, looks like a strange junk shop, but visitors are soon led further into owner Vlad's bizarre collection. The museum displays historical everyday – and not-so-everyday – objects and curiosities from the history of 続き...

Head back in time to a divided Berlin, with the help of some futuristic technology. Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall is an award-winning interactive 3D installation reproducing a linear kilometer of the Berlin Wall and its surrounding neighborhoods in East and 続き...

Classical music meets the club and shakes off its staid trappings with the Yellow Lounge series - monthly classical concerts in venues more known for indiscretion, booze and partying into the next day than the civilized stuffiness of classical concerts. This month, classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić brings the sounds of Montenegro to the garden of Berlin's temple of techno, 続き...

Vibrant, relaxed Berlin is an artist's mecca - creatives of all stripes flock here to live their dream. The opening of the huge new Based in Berlin exhibition last night was a celebration of the city's young, international art scene. The exhibition features 80 up and coming artists who live in Berlin. Spanning the best galleries all over the city, the exhibition is a great chance to see what's 続き...

The sprawling Berlin Gallery Weekend is upon us again - the ante has been upped to 44 galleries, 44 openings, and of course parties all over the city. It's an easy stroll from the Miniloft apartments to the host of galleries on Linenstraße and Auguststraße and Brunnenstraße, or head south to Galerie Crone, Carlier | Gebauer and others east of 続き...

Dare I say I'm looking forward to February? Berlin does its best to cheer everybody up in that short dark month, perhaps as a reward for getting through January. Not only do we have the public-friendly Berlinale, an international film festival where normal people can actually get tickets - there's also Transmediale and Club Transmediale to further brighten our days and 続き...

Direktorenhausis in a beautiful old building on the Spree, now a huge new art space. It utilizes the total space to build an atmospheric framework to explore the different elements of art, craft, design and 続き...

The Berlin Philharmonie's lovely lunchtime concert series has started again: every Tuesday at 13:00, they present a chamber concert, absolutely free of charge. 続き...

While many Berlin clubs and galleries are shuttered this month for their well-earned summer breaks, the superb international dance festival Tanz im August fills the cultural void with a two-week program of diverse contemporary 続き...

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden will soon close its doors for three years of renovations - help send it off in style, with a free outdoor concert on the famous 続き...

Microbes! Mench Mikrobe, a new interactive science exhibition all about bacteria and viruses, fungi and parasites, has a brief run next door to the Miniloft apartments in the gorgeous theatre hall of Berlin's Humboldt 続き...

40 galleries, 40 openings, three days. A succinct description for the sprawling Gallery Weekend, a marathon weekend of contemporary art celebrating Berlin's most prestigious collectors and 続き...

Bach wrote the Beat: the Neue Nationalgalerie livens up as four-time Breakdance World Champions Flying Steps take on classical, performing to Bach's "Well-Tempered 続き...