Lonely Planet • 11th November 2023

Berlin’s new era of club culture

The stakes are high: Berlin’s fate as a hotspot for counterculture alternative lifestyles hangs in the balance due to club closures.

The Guardian • 3rd April 2020

A new form of house music: Berlin clubs livestream DJ sets

With bars, nightclubs and restaurants closed to slow the spread of Covid-19, nightlife in Berlin was expected to come to a halt. But no, the beats are still thumping. The city’s premier “virtual club” is now in session.

thrillist • 2nd April 2020

Berlin's Legendary Club Scene Goes Digital To Keep The Beat Alive

An everyday journey across Berlin is set to a pulsing score: you'll hear electronic basslines in supermarkets, convenience stores (we call them spätis), and blaring from speakers on bicycles or in parks. You'll be minding your business one minute and suddenly -- boom! -- you're in a rave.

The Guardian • 5th December 2019

Berlin'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.

Vice • 3rd October 2016

Berlin’s Most Famous Drag Queen DJ Gloria Viagra Lets Down Her Hair

If you've spent enough time partying in Berlin, chances are you've seen Gloria Viagra. The city's most famous drag queen is a 6'5" blonde bombshell—over seven feet in stilettos—with big hair that's either slicked-down or a giant mess of curls, and a trademark mustache that's equally well-groomed.

Vice • 2nd June 2016

A Canadian Invented a Device That Gets You High with Electromagnetic Frequencies

There's a new way of getting high, without ever having to pop a pill, puff, or even ingest. It's a machine called a quantum crystal resonator, and it transmits out electromagnetic frequencies that according to its inventor, can mimic the sensations of MDMA, marijuana, or an acid trip—no chemicals necessary.

thrillist • 5th February 2016

Budapest's Ruin Bars Are Worth a Trip to Hungary

Romkocsma, as they’re called locally, are massive abandoned buildings that have been converted into bars and eclectic hangouts -- think old factories, abandoned department stores, and former apartment complexes, all turned into bars or clubs.

Coconuts • 26th August 2014

Night Prowl: The Legendary Lechery of Bernard ‘Nite Owl’ Trink

The Night Prowler meets Bernard Trink, grandfather of gonzo smut journalism.

DW.COM • 31st July 2014

Berliners get creative to save open air raves | DW | 31.07.2014

Find an open field. Add a DJ and some beer. Call a few friends. Poof! You've got an open air party. Back in the 1990s, open airs were ubiquitous in Berlin. Now they're illegal - so Berliners are getting creative.

Coconuts • 11th March 2014

Night Prowl: Go clubbing in a brothel at ‘Black Pagoda’

Black Pagoda is impossible to pin down. Is it a go-go bar, a gentleman’s club, nightlife institution or just another seedy watering hole in a red light district?

Coconuts • 19th December 2013

Night Prowl: There Goes the Last DJ

“I am a DJ, I am what I play,” David Bowie growled back on 1979’s “Lodger.” Those words resonate today in Bangkok’s nightlife scene, where DJs are measured less for their skills at the deck than the playlists to which they adhere.

EXBERLINER.com • 9th December 2013

Cold nights, hot burlesque

It’s getting cold as the dickens, but on the second Sunday of every month Friedrichshain’s Primitiv Bar is piping hot inside. No, not from guzzling all the Russian vodka, although that also comes recommended – it’s the sultry temptresses in the spotlight for the Sunday Soirée, Berlin’s most intimate burlesque show.

Coconuts • 31st July 2013

Can Bangkok stop the decline of its nightlife?

So here’s to something new – the start of a column we at Coconuts are calling “Night Prowl.”