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Nightlife Nightlife<br />
Lebowski’s<br />
www.kneipe-lebowski.de.<br />
Niederbarnimstrasse 23. U-Bahn:<br />
Samaritastrasse. Tel: +49 1 733<br />
561 828. Mon-Sun: 6pm-late.Price:<br />
€2-5.<br />
An upside down bowling alley peering<br />
down on patrons as they happily sip<br />
away at their white Russians sets<br />
the scene for this Friedrichshain<br />
institution. Lebowski’s, a bar<br />
based around the cult movie The<br />
Big Lebowski, attracts a vast array<br />
of colourful characters, most of<br />
which have taken the movie’s main<br />
character, The Dude, as a style icon,<br />
donning trench coats, long hair and<br />
even longer unkempt beards.<br />
Lebowski’s manages to avoid the<br />
common corny and trite pitfalls that<br />
other themed bars tend to suffer<br />
from. Managing to perfectly strike a<br />
balance between paying tribute to<br />
the cult movie while maintaining the<br />
charm and charisma of the <strong>Berlin</strong> dive<br />
bar scene, this watering hole serves<br />
up heaps of personality. Wooden<br />
columns and secluded nooks provide<br />
an intimate and fun atmosphere for<br />
a relaxed drink or an absinth-soaked<br />
night of craziness.<br />
The walls are covered with effi gies<br />
of actors Jeff Bridges, John Goodman<br />
and Steve Buscemi, portraying their<br />
characters in the movie and during<br />
themed nights the movie is played<br />
repeatedly on screens throughout the<br />
bar; walk into the restrooms of this<br />
weird and wonderful bar and you can<br />
hear The Big Lebowski through the<br />
loudspeakers dubbed into German.<br />
This drinking establishment has<br />
certainly been built by fans of the<br />
movie for fans of the movie.<br />
As such, no fan should leave without<br />
having a White Russian, The Dude’s<br />
favourite drink. White Russians will<br />
run at €4.90 while draught beer runs<br />
at under €3.<br />
Cassiopeia<br />
www.cassiopeia-berlin.de. Revaler<br />
Straße 99. S-Bahn/U-Bahn: Warshauer<br />
Straße. Tel: +49 304 738 594.<br />
Entry: €4-8.<br />
Along Friedrichshain’s infamous<br />
Simon-Dach-Straße you can fi nd a<br />
vast array of bars but for something<br />
a bit different head towards Revaler<br />
Straße to stumble across the underworld<br />
that is Cassiopeia.<br />
There are two club fl oors that host a<br />
wide range of musicians and djs from<br />
a local standard right up to internationally<br />
renowned acts. Open every<br />
night of the week except Mondays<br />
you can enjoy hip-hop, funk, rock,<br />
hardcore, electro, reggae, drum n<br />
bass and much more but be sure to<br />
check on their website to fi nd out<br />
what’s on.<br />
Set in over 4,000m² of old factory<br />
halls there is plenty of space to let<br />
yourself go and soak up the unique<br />
experience that this place has to offer.<br />
Once inside the compound there<br />
is a great feeling of separation from<br />
the outside world due to the high<br />
factory walls and towering trees but<br />
you are given an enormous sense of<br />
freedom by the sheer vastness of it<br />
all.<br />
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