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>> no. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >> anthony: 25 years later after the wall fell, what remains is obligated and unfinished. complicated by history and counter history, urban fabric and attempts to reorder it. berlin fascinates me. the people continues to be drawn to its darkness and its light. ♪ ♪ beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ something good ♪ ♪ beautiful world. ♪ >> anthony: berlin is never berlin. they say. pounded into rub...

"Cabaret," the classic musical, will be staged at the Center Repertory Company in Walnut Creek. Queer Bay Area theater performer Rotimi Agbabiaka is no stranger to playing flamboyant characters, and reprises his role of the show’s MC.

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The year is off to a busy start! With the British Shorts Film Festival, Transmediale and CTM, plus much more, you won't be bored in Berlin this January.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women staring into the camera.

Film preservationists Angela Holm and David Ferguson restore G.W. Pabst’s 1929 silent film “Pandora’s Box,” with a “stunning” new score.

Starting to only wear black. and when i came to berlin, i was like, yes. here, i can be who i want to be and it almost felt magical. >> yeah. >> anthony: do you think the people who came here from other countries back in the weimar era and now, people are looking for a dark side? do you think? >> with the people looking into things they cannot do, they are looking for things that are forbidden. you told the people who have come and gone crazy. >> it is capturing peoples imaginations. people come...

And free expression? >> was berlin was always very international. we had people who were flying in from all walks of life, artists from all genres were here and we were surrounded by east. the wall was a solid resistance and you need a strong enemy to build a stronger muscles and people who were living here had to improvise a lot. >> anthony: what is seen by many as a golden period, the weimar area was in fact music and culture and art in between two really awful events followed by the war time ...

In Berlin, Anthony Bourdain encounters an extremely accepting society, teeming with unbridled creativity, despite a grim history; against the backdrop of...

In his latest work, “Fabian — Going to the Dogs,” Dominik Graf adapts a work that defines the tragic, hedonistic and dysfunctional era of the Weimar ...