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  • Teufelsberg Posted by on April 23rd, 2010 at 10:26 pm
    Ominously nicknamed "Devils Mountain," Teufelsberg is what you imagine from Berlin, a city still showing the scars of the Cold War. The complex on top of Teufelsberg was a former U.S. listening post during the cold war and the hill itself was actually made from all the rubble of the city after Berlin's destruction during the Second World War. The hill covers a Nazi military technical college designed by Albert Speers which the Allies unsuccessfully tried to destroy, so instead they covered i...
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  • Hip Hop Karaoke Championships – NYC Posted by on February 11th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
    What is Hip Hop Karaoke? Think of normal karaoke, take away the bouncing ball above the song's words displayed on a screen. Take away the words themselves and then invite entrants to get up on stage an perform selected hip-hop songs from memory. In reality this is nothing like Karaoke. Its not cheesy or clumsy but was sometimes painful and slightly embarrassing watching some performers - and these were the best from around the nation at the 5th annual Championships. The songs of choice fo...
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  • Always Sunny in Philadelaphia Posted by on February 1st, 2010 at 12:07 am
    [caption id="attachment_257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bringing Christmas Spirit to Bumms near you"][/caption] I expected Philly to be the quintessential suburban America we've all become accustomed to in movies and TV throughout our lives. The America affected by foreclosures and the economic downturn, where danger and gun shots are just a suburb away and all the supposedly regular people are connected only by highways to their work and friends in other similar residential areas...
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  • Paris, Ashton and Marisa Posted by on January 19th, 2010 at 5:35 am
    I went along to a photography exhibition on Melrose Place, Beverly Hills the other night for three recent graduates of art school in the LA area, or to be more accurate an exhibition for some rich LA princesses who had just finished photography school and their parents had banded together to put on an exhibition in a swanky gallery on Melrose to show off their daughters talents. Sage’s stuff was basically a travel journal from New York back to Los Angeles and was a colla...
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