I made my debut in the mile high (writers) club this month, with a “Dispatch” in the airline mag Hemispheres. “Dispatches” is a travel section, a collection of brief wacky vignettes from around the world. I first made contact with the editor, Chris Wright, pitching a completely different project, a longer “Three Perfect Days” pieceContinue reading “Hemispheres Dispatch: “Dress Cents” at the Dortmund Opernhaus”
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Beer Encyclopedia: The Grand Tour of Dortmund Pilsners
You may have read my posts on brews and breweries, but this is something grander: a full chapter in the yet-unwritten Beer Enclyclopedia. Few have the time or resources to attempt the research necessary to write something as bold and as boozy as this, but given a month in Dortmund, I knew that – settingContinue reading “Beer Encyclopedia: The Grand Tour of Dortmund Pilsners”
Fate, Freedom, and Anarchy: On Open Jams in Dortmund
A few weeks ago, Matthias and I stood in a yellow candlelit passageway papered with Soviet-style posters and invitations to seances. To our left, the front of the shuttered Albertus Magnus Church was draped with large colored-paper banners decrying police brutality and calling for some kind of new order – starting here, at the SozialesContinue reading “Fate, Freedom, and Anarchy: On Open Jams in Dortmund”
Today’s Brewery: Bergmann, at the Bergmann Kiosk
Kiosks in Dortmund are as common as roadside shrines in India. Some kiosks are walk-in, but most are windows where late-night wanderers buy emergency 5€ cigarettes and beers at prices one-fourth what you’d find in a pub. A bottle of Brinkhoff’s might be 90 cents; Hövels, 1.10€. My favorite kiosk has to be the smallerContinue reading “Today’s Brewery: Bergmann, at the Bergmann Kiosk”
Post-Fascist Aesthetics at Dortmund’s Museum Ostwall
Visiting two wonderful widows in an apartment in Scharnhorst, a northeast district of Dortmund, Steve and I mentioned to the hostess – Oma, eighty-five and able to make a man reach unwilling for a fourth helping with the smallest flick of her index finger – that we’d been to the Museum Ostwall in the U-Building atContinue reading “Post-Fascist Aesthetics at Dortmund’s Museum Ostwall”
