By Rose Sidman for The Onion

Boy, is it a scorcher! Don't think I've seen one like this since the summer of '49. You know, at my age, I can feel pretty faint just sitting here, all alone in my stuffy, poorly ventilated apartment. Better brew a pot of coffee, take my blood pressure medication, and…hey, wait a minute.

Oh, shit. I'm going to be one of the poor fucks who dies in this heat wave, aren't I?

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Courtesy of Kansas City.com

AHMADABAD, India | In India, death is a part of life — and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch.
The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables. It’s a spot where old men page through newspapers and argue politics in the morning while young couples share candlelit meals and hold hands at night. That the candles sit atop graves only adds to the ambiance.

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NoD doporucuje:

BERLIN BRICOLAGE
Todosch a Petra Kludasch ("Kali & Salz")
jedinecne reseni pro Vas dum i zahradu "VITEJTE DOMA"
vernisaz v patek 30. listopadu v 19:00 v MeetFactory
vystava potrva do 9. 12. 2007

instalace v aterieru v 1. patre:
Esma Ciucir /Turecko/

MeetFactory, Ke Sklárně 15, 150 00 Praha 5
www.MeetFactory.cz

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No Pain No Brain Tattoo Shop & Gallery Presents:

"TRASHY SPARKLING MEXICAN POP ART EXHIBITION"

by Dulce 'Tzopelli' Ortega

Christmas is coming and we have one of a kind original artwork all the way from Mexico on display and for sale.Dulce Ortega makes beautiful sparkling hand painted treasure chests, mirrors, frames & nic nacs with flaming hearts, mexican wrestlers, Jesus & Marys, Day of the Dead Images and more...

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Ocean vs Daughter

an informal chat with Flanna Sheridan

by Antonio Baroni

When you hear Flanna Sheridan's sweet and velvety voice opposed to the waterfall of vigorous piano-raindrops and the colourful, warm and thunderous violin and cello flows, suddenly the mysterious name of the band makes sense: their music is like a wide expanse of water that can be sometimes quiet and sometimes stormy, nevertheless the sound is always clean, defined, and it's not hard to imagine Flanna as one of the Nereids, the nymphs that accompanied Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

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Fancy a night of colorful Bollywood vibes?

Provokator/ IMG presents “Bollywood Curry Night” - a multicultural night combining Bollywood glamour and delicious and tasty curry dishes! The special menu features an exotoc mix of traditinal rice and curry dishes as well as vegan and vegitarian-friendly options. Come and treat yourself with an exciting cultural boost of great food, music and the colors of Bollywood at Bohemia Bagel!
 

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Hankering for an experience of  Berlin like you never have before? Then you should hop aboard the Berlin Partybus!

The brainchild of the wicked minded Evil Jared, [bass ist of The Bloodhound Gang], pimped out by West Coast customs - the Partybus cruises the streets of Berlin at night, and it's a ride you won't forget!

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Bigger, Better, Harder Stuff That Doesn't Suck 14_10 – 21_10

Tired of stuff that sucks? Well we gots the cure for whats ails ya.
Recommended Events Listings: In addition to a print magazine we are media sponsors for things of specific interest that happen to be a bit weird, marginal or under the radar.

Wednesday 14th

Fast Food Orchestra @ Lucerna

Listen to Fast Food and their release cd 'Utsuki', supported by band Spankers. And after all this music cocktail, enjoy with Dj Robot.

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Festival of Lights, 14-25 October

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Asian Women's Film Festival, 15/10

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Klub 007 40ster Geburtstag

40 narozeniny!
Klub 007 feiert seinen vierzigsten Geburtstag!

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Klub 007 fête ses 40 ans

Quand: du 1er au 30 septembre

Quoi : une multitude et d’évènements et de concerts

Plus d’information sur klub007strahov.cz

40 narozeniny!
Klub 007 fête ses 40 ans!

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40 Aniversario del Klub 007

Cuándo: Del 1 al 30 de Septiembre

De qué se trata: Conciertos, eventos y muchas más sorpresas

Infórmate en nuestra web: www.klub007strahov.cz

¡Nuestro 40 aniversario!
¡El Klub 007 celebra sus 40 años de existencia!

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Original article by BBC NEWS online

The mobile phone throwing world championship in Finland on Saturday is just one of many crazy contests on the country's summer diary. Helsingin Sanomat columnist Perttu Hakkinen asks why Finns have such a fondness for these wacky pursuits.

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Die Berlin Bombshells sind eine Gruppe von Frauen, die einen in Berlin eher noch unbekannten Teamsport praktizieren. Die Rede ist von Rollerderby, einer Frauensportart auf klassischen Rollschuhen, die ihre Wurzeln in Amerika hat. Seit einem Jahr üben sie diesen Sport im Verein aus. Das öffentliche Interesse und die Mitgliederzahlen steigen seitdem stetig.

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Photograph by Benjamin Pritzkuleit

The night feared by all bartenders and well anticipated by those who wish to experience art and soak up culture, is coming up! On August 29th, Berlin opens wide its museum doors, all day and night, showcasing one of the most original events of the year, a ‘must see’ for everyone - not just art and culture nuts!

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Original article and photos by The Local online

Ninety years after it began revolutionising design, and six decades after the Nazis banned it, Germany's famed Bauhaus movement is luring huge crowds to a new show in Berlin.

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Original article from The Local online

Berlin’s S-Bahn chaos has created a Cockaigne for graffiti artists as the lack of rail traffic opens up a whole new canvas for taggers, daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Wednesday.

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Flash mobs banned in Braunschweig

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Original article - The Local online

Tired of flash mobs holding gatherings in Braunschweig’s Schlossplatz square, the city says it is forbidding the social networking phenomenon, according to a report published Tuesday by the news site Zeit Online.

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Original article by Kateri Jochum/Kyle James, DW-World.de

Police and law officials raided bordellos under suspicion of social security fraud, among others. They have been trying to stop the flat-rate fee system in brothels, arguing that it violates prostitutes' dignity.

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Armando Andrade Tuleda @ DAAD Galerie, Berlin

When: 9.07 - 29.08

Where: DAAD Galerie, Berlin

Zimmerstr. 90/91
10117 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 261 36 40
open Monday - Saturday:
11am - 6pm

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Beirut & guests @ Cassiopeia Skatehalle, Berlin
When: 19.08
Start: 9pm

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Welcome to the 2^nd Czech Beer Fest!

For ten days (from May 22^nd to May 31^st, 2009), we have prepared a selection of the best from Czech breweries, Czech chefs, butchers and bakers for you.

You’ll have the chance to taste more than 50 brands of Czech beer, always in top quality in glass pitchers.

300 girls and boys in Czech national costumes will be your servers.

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by Alex Jordan

How has your April Fools' day gone? Mine was crap. I forgot about it until 3pm and after 12 noon the joke backfires on you, so doing something immature was out of the question. I went to work and messed around all day writing this article and exchanging bitchy e-mails instead.

There's an art to constructing a good April fool. Some of the best are constructed by newspapers. They usually ask or provoke readers to provide comments or send in letters/names/addresses/bank details. Banana skins and fake soap don't have the same edge, and if you can get the people you're trying to make idiots of to do most of the work themselves whilst you sit back and cackle gleefully  - it's by far the most effective method of operating. Australia seems to have done one of the best jobs so far this year, easily outstripping the French poisson d'avril and displaying far more sophistication than Beijing's randy pandas. The results of the British broadsheets' efforts usually become apparent a few days after the first when readers' responses reach the letters page. 

If anything decent went on in the CR, do let us know. Meanwhile, click here.

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 By Hannah Straw 

Imagine a meat factory where creation was the focus, rather than death. Well, in Smíchov, that’s a reality- an abattoir turned into the artistic MeetFactory, where all forms of art are displayed and performed, within a context of a platform for European integration into the art scene in Prague.

Formerly housed at Holešovice, MeetFactory moved to Smíchov in 2005, following disastrous floods which all but destroyed the old building. However, floods be damned, its gallery is not only back up to speed, but hoping to expand rapidly through its new Artist in Residency program, which was launched in October 2007. This program offers a haven for international artists, who are invited to house themselves and their art in studios on site. A board of professional artists, including the locally and internationally acclaimed David Černý (responsible for those weird baby sculptures climbing up Prague’s television tower), offer their critique and advice for works in progress. 

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At the heart of the arteries of Europe lies Berlin,  known for being saturated with history, but also for being a main organ pumping fresh underground culture, music, and diversity throughout the continent.
If you want to feel more-like a local instead of a tourist; if you care about the true veins of Berlin culture, and not just about the over-trodden money-making path, if you wish to discover and support small businesses and local artists, you need to know about Alternative Berlin.
What do they offer? In their own words: "[We] show you a side of the city you would never know existed. To put you in touch with the real people in Berlin, and to show you just what they do in their everyday lives". Need more reasons? What about "to help out local businesses, establishments, and culture. To protect the very thing that makes Berlin such an incredible city”.

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By James “007” Brzezicki, (with added danger from Peter Holland).
Image by barcroft media

Through my status as a modest film buff, I know that there are what society-at-large would call ‘good movies’. Tragically excluded from this cannon are most movies about freakishly large, dangerous animals that somehow get genetically or bionically enhanced by scientists/the military/nature gone wrong.

What I never expected, was that these movies might predict… the future. A future that has just become… the present…
A freakishly gargantuan, 10 foot long endangered crocodile was run over in the Florida keys, presumably following a lengthy chase sequence and the deaths of several cheerleaders.

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 By Hannah Straw

Formerly housed in an abandoned abattoir in Holešovice, MeetFactory moved to Smíchov in 2005, following disastrous floods which all but destroyed the old building. However, floods be damned, its gallery is not only back up to speed, but hoping to expand rapidly through its new Artist in Residency program, which was launched in October 2007. This program offers a haven for international artists, who are invited to house themselves and their art in studios on site. A board of professional artists, including the locally and internationally acclaimed David Černý (responsible for those weird baby sculptures climbing up Prague’s television tower), offer their critique and advice for works in progress.

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The Flatliners @ CLASH, Berlin

Gneisenaustr. 2a - 10961

When: Sat. 15.08
Start: 21:00 uhr

Demo, Destroy to Create, The Great Awake

and a thus-far untitled new album to be released sometime this year.

by Peter Holland and Alex Jordan

Provokator notes this is Friday the 13th!!! Oh my god! I just shat myself... a bit went on my black cat.

While this date has a certain significance to some superstitious folk, it's just a normal day for almost everyone - EXCEPT IN 2029 when we will see a 320 metre wide asteroid close (closer than geosynchronous satellites, such as the ones that make the GPS on an iphone work) it will be visible to the naked eye in Africa, Asia and Europe! Its so large that if it were to collide with the earth it would make a crater the size of Texas.
 
Ok, obviously it's not going to hit otherwise you'd have heard more squawking than this, but for a while (from Christmas Eve 2004) astronomers claimed the chances of it doing so were a mere one in sixty. As it is it will whizz a mere 30,000 km above (? below? next to?) the earth, (unless we're unlucky and the calculations were wrong...).
It *might* hit again later (like 2035 or something) though, if its trajectory is changed by earth's gravity in 2029. To be honest, no one knows, and it's all going to be very disappointing for the apocalypse crowd... however, to be able to see something come that close to hitting us and miss (visible with the naked eye) is actually a 1 in a 1000 year opportunity! It's going to be so bright that you'll be able to see it even from the middle of a large city -an IFO (identified flying object) bigger and brighter than any seen in living memory. Mind you, it'll probably be really, really cloudy.

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By Peter Holland

Image by Peter Holland

Unlucky vendors selling heat-rub massage oil at the "Big Eropolis" near Paris (argued to be the worlds largest sex fair by it's fond advocates), are finally feeling the economic heat. Sales figures have drooped. During the past decade's period of economic growth there was expansion in the French sex toy industry, but the heavy impact of the global recession has finally made customer spending impotent throughout the sector responsible for kinky power tools, fetish footwear, and merkins. The girth of the problem is such that customers who previously wet their lips at the prospect of buying a piece of plastic to put in themeless, (or that special loved one), now show a coy shyness more associated with a blushing teen making their first rookie purchase as part of a group dare.

This downturn is seemingly counter-intuitive to some industry insiders, seeing as recessions usually lead people to find more personal recreational fun. Hey, how you doin'?... ;)
... maybe people realised they can use their natural anatomy, and don't need to spend 1000Kč on a fake penis when so many real ones are floating around in peoples trousers. I know mine is.

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TALES OF THE GOLDEN AGE II

directed by Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Maria Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Pupescu.

with Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov.

Screened at Febio Festival on 01/04/2010

a review by Antonio Baroni

In the movies we are all the same.
That's what I thought when serendipity sent me to hall 6 of Anděl Cine Superstar because the movie I had planned to see had sold out.

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 The Happiest Girl in the World

by Steffen Abend

 Who wouldn't want to be the "Happiest Girl in the World"??? Boys maybe...well, some boys anyhow!

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A German election campaign poster featuring the slogan "The Only Reason to Vote Black"  above the naked buttocks of a black woman being squeezed by the hands of a white woman has provoked accusations of racism.

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