?´\da used to be one the coolest clubs in the mid-90s until it closed down a while ago. Actually it was open only for a few years, but it seems to have become the big daddy for the current hipsters running around and putting shit up. And for some reason everybody refers to the Blumenladen as the Maria or the Ex-Maria or the Ex of Maria or whatever.
Nice, new place though. Audiochocolate put up parties and shows every on the third thursday of the month. The first event will be this week. So, be there and you can tell everyone how it already sucked when they opened and how it's not hte same anymore whenever it closes down.

Blumenladen, Schillingstr.31, Subway-Station: Jannowitzbrücke

Staubgold

Audiochocolate

A new club with some cool stuff happening. Big location with a lot of room and some of the city's most interesting musicians and artists putting themselves up.
Solid mix of groove, tech, good old weird rock and a big dancefloor.
Good program with looks like a platform for the local scene experimenting with itself.
Dresscode: it's Mitte! Buy some 2nd Hand-motorcycle-jacket in Kastanienallee or wear your old, dirty suit.

Zentral, Rochstr./Ecke Dircksenstr (under the bridge and on the left side), S-Bahnbogen 131, Subway-Station: Weinmeisterstr.

Zentral

Ausland is a new place celebrating it's opening from Dec.7th until the 22nd. Clubs come and go, but this one is spreading flyers three months in advance.
So, anything special happening here? It either has to be really something or everyone's gonna laugh at these people!

Ausland, Lychener Str.60, 10437 Berlin, Tel.: 030-4477008, Subway-Station: Schönhauser Allee

Ausland

Here is a great, sort of arty website dealing with the "scene" in Berlin, whatever that may be.... Worthwhile to check out if you don't speak a word of german and want to find out what't hot and what is not. Isn't that the sort of meaningless lifestyle-language you have grown to love? 032c - an english lingo magazine about whatever is happening in Berlin and doesn't suck

The legendary Mudd Club from New York City has reopened in Berlin at Große Hamburger Straße 17 around Hackescher Markt.

Nice sub-basement-place with the usual promoters putting up shows. Great mix of things that have been happening for quite awhile already, nothing actually new, rather a place for thirty-something-punks finally getting into some Coltrane and Gene Vincent.

Rock'n'Roll in all it's comic-incarnations from the dirty 60s, Russian Polka and a lot of weird and interesting shit going on.
Lots of stories about the old owner who seems to be kind of confused and doesn't really know what to make of the Berlin scene around that area.

Mudd Club Online

There is a really good place downhill from the Acropolis. They got a vegan selection and organic beer too.

Eden, Vegetarian Restaurant, 12 Lissiou & Mnissicleous Str.Plaka, Athens, Greece Tel. 3248858

->Grober Unfug, Zossener Str.32-33, Subway-Station: Mehringdamm
Probably the best store in Berlin. Large selection of comics, books, merchandising etc. from all over the world. A whole lot of small-press-stuff and weird shit. Located in the south-end of Kreuzberg. Loads of coffee-places, record stores and boutiques around the corner on Bergmannstraße.
There is a german-language-store on the street-level and an international store upstairs. The place also hosts a little art-gallery. Check the website for their current show.
Grober Unfug
There is another smaller store under the same name at subway-station Weinmeisterstr./exit Schönhauser. They don't have the whole selection, but they will help you with your basic-needs too.

->Modern Graphics, Oranienstr.22, Subway-Station: Kottbusser Tor
The other big store. Large selection of US-stuff and German Independents. They also have interesting signings every once in a while. Located in the heart of Kreuzberg. Lots of bars and book-stores on the same street.
or Bundesallee 83, Subway-Station: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Paltz
The other store they have is a little further out in the west.
Modern Graphics

->That place in the backyard of the cinema Central called staalplaat(?) or somethign like that
It's in the back of the house which hosts the Cafe Central on Rosenthaler Str., Subway-Station : Hackescher Markt. If you follow the movie-posters into the last courtyard, go straight ahead, open the big metal-door and the store will be on the first floor.
They have all the avantgarde-comics and -design as you might have expected it from the description. Totally worth a visit and one of the most interesting backyards to visit in this crowded tourist-area.

->Peter Skodzik
Large store specializing in German comics and Action Figures. He has them all. A toy-collectors' wet dream!
Subway-Station: Nollendorfplatz. The store is on Nollendorfplatz 5 next to the theatre. Good Hot Dog-Stand with a good selection of vino on the corner and Winterfeldplatz just a block away. You'll find the reggae-bar Slumberland and a few other restaurants around here. Lots of gay-bars.

->Black Dog Comics
Specializing in US-comics. Big selection of Underground, including nasty xxx-titles.
Rodenbergstr. 9
blackdog

worthwhile visiting as well:

Renate-Comic Library
Hang-out for the local scene every first monday of the month.

Monday 14-20.00h
Wednesday 14-20.00h
Friday 14-19.00h
Tucholskystr. 32, Subway-Station: : U8 Rosenthaler Platz

Renate

I mean, come on, it rains all the time and besides Astra Stuben and a bunch of places around the Reeperbahn, what are you gonna do here if you're stranded in Hamburg for a few days? Any idea?