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    Rockcafé HALFORD

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    A staple of Berlin's heavy metal scene has stood on Mainzer Straße since 1991. Amidst neon lights, posters, chains, and skulls, they host release parties, unplugged concerts, and music video nights. Fourteen beers are on tap, plus billiards, darts, foosball, and a pinball machine. The heated terrace offers forty-eight seats.

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    On Stargarder Straße, an owner has been running a boutique for women's fashion, shoes, and accessories since 2011. The brands come from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Germany; the shoes are made in Europe from genuine leather. Sustainability is an explicit selection criterion; fast fashion is not included in the range.

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    Freiluftkino Insel

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    Today, the screen is located in the Atelier Gardens on Oberlandstraße, on the former Berliner Union-Film-Ateliers site at the edge of Tempelhofer Feld. Comfortable deck chairs await in front of the studio halls, showing independent cinema, current arthouse highlights, short films, documentaries, and festival specials, including special screenings.

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    Oberbaumbrücke

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    Two Neo-Gothic brick towers, the yellow U1 train on the upper level, and the Spree river below form one of Berlin's most iconic cityscapes, with the East Side Gallery and the Spree riverbank right next door. The bridge became famous through Run Lola Run, and since then it has been a staple when a shot needs to be immediately recognizable as Berlin.

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    Since 2007, Pro qm has been located in a Poelzig building on Almstadtstraße, just a few steps from the Volksbühne. The thematic bookstore collects titles on city, politics, architecture, design, and theory, with more than half of them in English. Books are not sorted alphabetically, but by the ongoing debates.

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    Ulla Popken

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    The branch on Kurfürstendamm belongs to the country's most famous plus-size label with over 320 stores in Europe. It offers women's fashion in large sizes, from basic shirts to jeans and blouses, to coats, lingerie, and swimwear, with a sizing logic that has remained consistent over the years and is based on its own collections.

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    Located directly at Hermannstraße U- and S-Bahn station, this pub describes itself as an institution for over 25 years. It operates without closing hours, accepts cash payments only, has a smoking area, free Wi-Fi, and offers the option to rent the space for private parties. Prices remain in the lower double-digit range per person.

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    Spread across 13,400 square meters, four areas are united under one roof: a fun and sports pool with a 370-square-meter wave pool, a mineral forum with a graduation tower, a sauna world featuring the 70-square-meter Panorama Sauna, and a spa. Approximately 1,500 square meters of water surface and a slide tower reaching up to 55 kilometers per hour are also included.

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    "Vive la vie 2019!" - TIPI AM KANZLERAMT invites you to the grand New Year's Eve Gala with Katharine Mehrling & Band

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    macha-macha

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    The tea house macha-macha in Kreuzberg stands for the traditional Japanese and Chinese tea culture as well as vegan and vegetarian dishes of Japanese cuisine.