The Guardian • 5th December 2019Berlin's notorious fetish club may be forced to close The KitKatClub, famed for its sexual openness as much as its music, faces an uncertain future with its lease yet to be renewed and property developers looking to move in.
Lonely Planet • 23rd October 2019Ethical wildlife encounters in Finland Most of Finland is blanketed in a dense, wild forest, providing habitats for Europe's most diverse and magnificent species. The country has even been named the world’s best destination for wildlife travel by the Global Wildlife Travel Index.
October • 22nd October 2019Black Female Brewers Are Reclaiming Craft Beer in South Africa In South Africa’s black Xhosa and Zulu ethnicities, women were traditionally in charge of brewing umqombothi. Beer-making turned into a man's job during the industrial period, but now South Africa's craft beer scene is seeing young black females come up as brewmasters.
Culture Trip • 30th August 2019Experience Multicultural Berlin Through These Local Heroes Meet the DJ hosting Moscow house parties in Berlin, the mind behind a legendary noodle house and the shop owner fighting censorship with books.
thrillist • 21st May 2019Amsterdam's Red Light District is About to Change. Here's How Sex Workers Feel About It Window prostitution has been practiced throughout the Netherlands since the end of the 19th century, but the city's recent ban on red-light tours is the first of its kind.
The Guardian • 9th May 2019Berlin anti-gentrification activists fight to keep ... the local Aldi The residents of Berlin’s Kreuzberg district have become renowned for their impassioned clashes against capitalism. Now, they’ve stepped up to defend an unexpected establishment: the local branch of Aldi, a supermarket with a €50bn annual turnover.
Reuters • 5th April 2019Germany's new Bauhaus museum set for interactive opening The new Bauhaus museum opens its doors to the public for the first time in the east German city of Weimar on Saturday after three years of construction, giving admirers of the world-famous “form follows function” aesthetic a new place of pilgrimage.
Scoot • 1st February 2019Mic's the Word A dynamic spoken word scene is boldly reverberating in Malaysia's capital. Barbara Woolsey takes a seat in the audience and tunes in to the melodic strains of Kuala Lumpur's poetic underground.
thrillist • 18th October 2017Why Young American Expats Flock to This Cheap Beach Paradise There’s a village in Bali where American expats cavort on scooters, surf swells, and beach verandas all year round. No, this isn’t the Eat, Pray, Love crowd -- these are Silicon Valley exiters, social media influencers, artists, and miscellaneous “woke” folk living their best lives, as seen on Instagram.
The Guardian • 17th October 2017Berlin’s popular Thai Park faces threat of closure The iconic but illegal Preussenpark food market could become a victim of its own success as officials clamp down over hygiene and safety regulations.
Tasting Table • 11th May 2017Why Bangkok is One of the World's Best Food Cities In Bangkok, a city with gleaming postmodern kitchens and good ol' greasy spoons alike, one of my favorite food secrets isn't a restaurant at all, but a ramshackle shophouse selling nothing but curry pastes.
Handelsblatt Today • 10th March 2017Meet the German Comedian Behind the Global Trump Roast A series of copycat spoof videos that parody Donald Trump has gone viral around the world. Meet Jan Böhmermann, the television satirist who coordinated the global roast.
Vice Noisey • 8th March 2017Meet Jeah, the Cambodian Rapper Who Came to Canada as a Refugee "I think that not being born in Canada is why I always feel the need to express a taste of where I'm actually from. I have to showcase who I am culturally as much as I am also a Canadian."
Reuters • 20th April 2016Germany marks 500 years of beer purity law The sound of clinking glass fills the room as a monk inspects one of hundreds of beer bottles passing along the production line at Andechs monastery in Bavaria.
Vice Munchies • 2nd December 2016The Rise of India’s Coffee Revolution Indians have never been big coffee drinkers. Sure, the West's irreplaceable daily perk has existed in the South Asian country for centuries—as the story goes, those first prodigious beans were smuggled out of Yemen by an Indian Muslim saint around 600 years ago.
Bangkok Post • 21st October 2010Burma's healthcare reaches crisis point The health of people living in eastern Burma is among the worst in the world.