• LA Part III: Food, Part II

    LA Part III: Food, Part II

    Part II of the LA Food Series: Finally some seafood, one of the spiciest things I have ever eaten and the infamous Erewhon smoothie… Malibu Seafood We took a day trip to Malibu, which obviously called for the consumption of copious amounts of seafood. Luckily, my friend John knew a good place to go, which…

  • LA Part II: Food, Part I

    LA Part II: Food, Part I

    Time for the most important aspect of my holiday… Food. Street Tacos at Atlantic Station In order to beat jetlag, I didn’t call it a day when I arrived but had John show me one of the places he usually hangs out at, Chicago-style bar Escondite in Little Tokyo. When we finally made our way…

  • LA Part I: Of Prejudices and Misconceptions

    LA Part I: Of Prejudices and Misconceptions

    The truth is, I never really wanted to come to Los Angeles. It didn’t appeal to me and there were hundreds of holiday destinations I was more interested in. The reason I am here nonetheless is that I have a good friend, John, who lives here, and who has been going on my nerves for…

  • Of Female Rage, Locked-up Madwomen and Brat Summer

    Of Female Rage, Locked-up Madwomen and Brat Summer

    „Are you angry a lot?“, my therapist asked me. „No“, I replied, „I hardly ever get really angry.“ I thought I had given a good answer because my parents had taught me that anger is bad. But when I noticed the tiny flicker of pity crossing my therapist’s face, I started wondering whether I had…

  • Childless Cat Ladies, Unite!

    Childless Cat Ladies, Unite!

    A few weeks ago, a 2021 interview with Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance resurfaced in which he took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris and some other high profile female politicians claiming: “We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable…

  • The Dating Series: Online Dating, Part II

    The Dating Series: Online Dating, Part II

    My plan was to steer clear of boring first dates, which is why I decided to take a different approach to online dating and to allow me to have some fun with it: From now on, I predominantly swiped right for slightly younger guys with a mixture of party and gym pics. And to my…

  • The Dating Series: Online Dating, Part I

    The Dating Series: Online Dating, Part I

    I have been fairly blessed in my dating life. I managed to meet my two long-term partners through friends, which made the initial dating phase either wholly superfluous (going from friends to lovers) or at least quite relaxed (hanging out a few times in a group before dating). Unfortunately, life for me took a turn…

  • Noma Review: Is the Best Restaurant in the World Worth It?

    Noma Review: Is the Best Restaurant in the World Worth It?

    How do you start an article about Noma, when it seems like everything has already been said before? The Copenhagen restaurant, founded by Rene Redzepi in 2003, pretty much transformed the concept of fine dining: they got rid of the white table cloth, they introduced a more relaxed style of service and hospitality, they abolished…

  • There’s Something About Taylor (…and Travis)

    There’s Something About Taylor (…and Travis)

    There’s about a good handful of moments that broke the internet: it happened when the infamous Oscar selfie was posted, it happened when Kim Kardashian released her cover for Paper magazine and it also happened when millions of people couldn’t decide whether a dress was black or blue. Last week it happened again uniting two…

  • Girl Dinner. Or How Brotzeit Became a Feminist Statement.

    Girl Dinner. Or How Brotzeit Became a Feminist Statement.

    As summer is coming to an end, I think we should all take a moment of reflexion and ask ourselves what defined the summer of 2023 for us: Will you remember it as the summer that gave us King Charles III? Will it be the summer in which Donald Trump was arrested? Or will it…