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A Feast for all Senses: Wine Venue in Berlin

16. February 2016

Maximilian

Berlin, City Life, Lifestyle & More

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Amongst big and flashy events like Berlinale one could easily forgot, that there is more to Berlin than its triple A highlights. One of those smaller venues is the annually Berlin Wine Fair, a place for gourmets, cuisniers and the ordinary John Doe, who is trying to expand his horizon in...

Let's get real: Virtual Reality

15. February 2016

Maximilian

Electronics, Entertainment

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Like many people that saw "The Matrix", I was fascinated with the whole concept of virtual reality. Sadly, I had to realize that our technology was by far not advanced enough to support such dreams. But years later, as I heard of the Oculus Rift I was mesmerized, only to...

Berlinale: A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

14. February 2016

Maximilian

Entertainment, Movies & TV-shows

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Outside of Hollywood it is well known that movies do not have to follow certain well established rules. We know this at least since we saw movies like “Boyhood“ or “Into the Void“. But the way the movie “Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis“ (or “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery“ in...

Midnight Special: Father and Son on the Run

13. February 2016

Maximilian

Entertainment

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As tradition goes, Berlinale has a wide variety of different kinds of promising movies. One of those is the fourth film by Jeff Nichols, director of highly acclaimed works like “Mud“ or “Take Shelter“. His new movie “Midnight Special“ tells the tale of a father, who is trying to save his...

Missing the spice in reading? Try #fastfoodbo...

12. February 2016

Maximilian

Art & Culture, Lifestyle & More

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Books are hard to read and not easy to digest, so the saying goes. That this has not always to be the case was just demonstrated on Twitter, as a new trending hashtag called #fastfoodbooks emerged from the depths of social media. The competition the hashtag poses is to insert...

The Top 5 space related discoveries of 2015

8. February 2016

Maximilian

Art & Culture, Lifestyle & More

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From lost oceans to new found worlds, 2015 was an eventful year for the scientific community. Here at readthetrieb.com, we count the Top 5 of space related news, so you never have to be ashamed to speak at your friends astrophysicist party again. 1. Water on Mars Yeah, you read right, we...

Berlinale: Elixir - Messing with Spacetime

8. February 2016

Maximilian

Entertainment, Movies & TV-shows, Stars & Sternchen

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There are many great movies hitting the theaters during the Berlinale soon, one more unique and thrilling than the next. But we would like to introduce you to a special piece of art: Elixir by Daniil Zinchenko. Zinchenko, a Moscow based videoartist and part of the art association Up!, is trying to...

No sleeping dogs: Carnival at Rio

4. February 2016

Maximilian

Art & Culture, Lifestyle & More

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Beer, schlager music and funny costumes. That's what comes to mind, if you think of carnival in Germany. But a different, rather unusual version of this was displayed in Rio de Janeiro last Sunday by local dog keepers, as they performed in the twelfth annually dog carnival. Listening to funky samba...

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