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Anyway, I look forward to seeing some hoardes of angry citizens on Sunday, and maybe even to guzzling some free bubbly. It should be a blast.

The thing about the dead-tree press is that, in contrast to bottom-feeding blogs like this one, who favour rumor and speculation over well researched facts, you can always rely on them as a respected source of quality information.

In this past Sunday’s Tagesspiegel for example we read that this journal is in fact called “Slub Magazine”. We stand duly corrected, and have made the necessary adjustments to the masthead, which will remain in place until columnist Kolja Reichert decides to fire up his browser in a flurry of post-press research, and then apologise publically for this heinous slur.

Further more, we read that Slub Magazine “resides a couple of houses further up the street” from Arno Brandlhuber’s much talked about Teutonic Favela™ on Brunnenstraße 9. The assumption here is probably that SLAB is some venerable, centrally organised institution, shacked up in the bar ‘Kim’, with which the co-editor of this chronicle is associated, paying rent to Jean-Remy von Matt … two grubby archi-hacks bivouacking in the basement of a dive bar, living off Mitte’s gin and peanut vernissage circuit.

The article in question, which is otherwise interesting and informative can be found at the following link: Tagesspiegel

In something of a nomenclatural coup, SLAB’s neologism “brutiful” has made its way into issue 195 of Arch+ magazine as the headline for an interview with Arno Brandlhuber.

Elsewhere in the media, fellow SLAB correspondent Miller has been quoted in the Berlin daily newspaper taz, where he voices his concerns about the imminent “chichification” of Brunnenstraße.

The deployment of new words into the wider media landscape has always been one of SLAB’s express aims.

Could it be that Nivea’s new Volume Sensation Styling Spray was itself developed in reaction to the obvious marketing opportunity that the eastern face of the scaffolding presented? Or maybe that the idea for the product, as well as its name, were indeed derived from the cladding technique that Kollhof had employed a decade before in the construction of this titan in the pantheon of fakeytecture?