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Shoreditch, East End, London, UK
Said to be the Brooklyn of London, Shoreditch does share a number of that NYC borough’s traits: it was “the worst slum in Europe” the dreaded East End–just 15 years ago and is now so gentrified that few natives can still afford a room here. it’s full of artists and hipsters and every other person…
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A New Adventure Begins–I leave for London June 2, 2015
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ZEGG-A Week in Community
An hour by train out of Berlin, Belzig is in the formerly East German countryside –of lakes, streams, forest and fields of corn, wheat, and sunflowers; –of small villages with new homes built into 17th, 18th, and 19th century wattle and daub half-timbered barns or stepped brick Gothic and slit windowed old pitched roof storage…
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BERLIN–SOMMER 2011
Summer life here is so easy and welcoming–I live in Kreuz-kolln–a neighborhood that was once all Turkish and quite poor and still has half its population Muslim–with the women all covered in clothing–but not black or dreary at all-silk scarves of every imaginable color and floral pattern cover their hair and then all kinds of…
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Christopher Street Parade–Berlin
CHRISTOPHER STREET –PRIDE PARADE– I settled in with a Kindl (beer) und Fritz (French fries) and felt sehr Deutsch…Set to begin at 12:30, the parade itself didn’t arrive until 2 but beforehand people came and came and came, some dressed wildly, most just average folks in groups, with families, old and young, gay and straight,…
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Fashion & Politics 2010: Flying Blindly Backwards
Consider the fashions today. Do you think the images mean anything significant? Witness Tommy Hilfiger’s faux family lounging around their Ford woodie Wagon on butterfly chairs and atop Tartan metal coolers—striped university colored scarves and camel haired coats, tweeds and turtlenecks. Here we have quintessential prep school graduates, a family of rich people with…