At this facsimile of a North Woods dinner joint, the food is authentically all wrong.
Tag: German
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Boeufhaus steaks a claim in Ukrainian Village
Chefs Brian Ahern and Jamie Finnegan come out of nowhere with a knockout French-German brasserie.
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The Tragedy of Power
An alien grants a coal miner a source of limitless power in the 1920 German expressionist sci-fi film “Algol,” screening Thursday, Dec. 9 at Goethe-Institut.
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The Tragedy of Power
An alien grants a coal miner a source of limitless power in the 1920 German expressionist sci-fi film “Algol,” screening Thursday, Dec. 9 at Goethe-Institut.
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10/2-10/3—Oktoberfest at Saint Benedict’s
St. Benedict’s holds its 45th annual Oktoberfest.
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Strongman Ferdinand
Alexander Kluge’s 1976 satire of Cold War paranoia, “Strongman Ferdinand,” screens tonight at The Nightingale.
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Women who fought fascists
Julia Newman presents her documentary “Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War” Monday 10/26 at Facets Cinematheque.
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“My only weapon…is that I won’t leave this place”
Imprisoned by Egyptian security forces last February for protesting the Israeli siege on Gaza, student activist Philip Rizk explores nonviolent resistance in his documentary “This Palestinian Life,” screening tonight at Wellington United Church of Christ.
Posted inMusic
Achim Wollscheid
On Airs and Shifts, two recent recordings made originally for his monthly radio program, Selektion, German multimedia artist Achim Wollscheid manipulated the playback of multiple CDs, layering the output in fluid combinations to create peripatetic, skittering soundscapes that move from ominous hums to flailing white noise. The music bears certain similarities to the “glitchwerks” school […]
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Straight to the Heart
German printmaker KŠthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is often, if unfairly, regarded as a propagandist. Though she lived a middle-class life–a servant helped run her household, freeing her to work–she lived in the poorest district of Berlin, where her physician husband saw his patients. Even as a child she was fascinated by the “native rugged simplicity” of […]