The last show of the one-year project that is MMX. Show VII offers the tasty and interactive work of Risa Puno with her kunst vending machine and “Magic Eye” auto stereogram wall works. James Bullough takes the challenge of transforming the bar space of MMX while Juan Arata paints the underbelly creatures of Berlin’s nightlife. Geoffrey Garrison brings his new video installation piece that questions the space and time around a gilded frame. Screening program VII deals with the theme “the end is just the beginning”, appropriately fitting for MMX’s history. Fresh from Winnipeg, Lancelot Coar and Patrick Harrop take over the front of the house.

Valentin Hartweck’s installation will entrap the viewer as they head towards BitteBitteJaJa (collaborative video works by Ulu Braun and Roland Rauschmeier). The UV light installation by Jeongmoon Choi finishes the show with an atmospheric and labyrinthian end.
Tacos Berlin will be serving up yummy Mexican food once again at the Vernissage. Nothing less than a stellar last show with weekly performances by Argentinian artist Martin Molinaro.

Screening Program VII- The end is just the Beginning:

Carl Slater
Clemens Wilhelm
Dwayne Butcher
Keary Rose & Kelly Oliver
Nicole Tschampel
Rebecca Loyche
Sylbee Kim
Tobias Rosenberger

MMX- Open Art Venue
Linienstraße 142/143, Mitte
www.mmx.mx
Hours- Wed 12-22 Thu-Sun 12-19
Exhibition: October 29 – December 3
Opening: October 29, 2010 18:00-22:00

Who doesn`t know the legendary Cookies? Young Berliners are getting older and the Clubs are lasting longer and longer. So what do you do as a Club once your audience that supported you in the first days gets older and maybe  actually gets many many Babies? Well let the Babies rock!

For more than a year Cookies has had events for Kids. If you want to find out more check out: http://kidzwantcookies.com/

Good Food in Berlin will be joining forces with Berlin ♥ ‘s You to bring you Berlin food that you will love!

Tapas in Kreuzberg: Fingering Flavoursome Food

On the Oranienplatz, directly on the lively and very cool Oranienstraße in Kreuzberg and only a stone’s throw away from the Kottbusser Tor, one finds a couple of very pretty restaurants. They seem a bit more posh and up-scale than many of the small eateries you can see on the Oranienstraße. And one of these restraurants is Sol y Sombra. Last winter, while wading through inches of thick snow, I stumbled into this small restaurant. The atmosphere is very candle light-y, the decoration is quaintly Mediterrean and the food basically revolves around tapas. Sure, you can order a main dish and be particularly lazy, but that would just be silly.

So of course, we too, ordered tapas. When you go to Sol y Sombra around dinner time, you will most likely have to spend a bit of time lounging at the bar with a nice glas of wine – or a Spanish beer to wait for a table. Never a hassle when it’s only two people. And when ordering tapas, you also have the joined fun of picking and matching your food. We actually made a proper list on a coaster while sipping drinks at the bar. By the time our food (no less than eight different tapa dishes) came, our table was ready.

When it comes to tapas, I am a big fat slutty fan of the dates or prunes with a layer of bacon (crispily baked, of course). Such a slut, that we actually ordered the dish twice. The classical flavour combination of crunchy and spicy bacon with the soft sweet texture of a prune is something almost magical. But when one is eating tapas, you will not feel too bad about ordering a ‘naughty’ dish, considering you only get a small plateful of it. To supplement my slutty prune craving, we also had gamba’s, green peppers, chorizo, calamares, spicy meatballs and Spanish tortilla (also one of my favourites – a thick eggy pancake with potatoes).

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