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Bringing you 24 reasons to love Berlin in 2024: Florentina Holzinger’s nun opera, our skateboarders at the Olympics, Beirut’s return to the stage, 35 years since Mauerfall, legal weed, and a metric fuckton of culture. Plus: Cookies Cream’s new chef, the story of Funkhaus, fireworks frenzy, godmother of dance Sasha Waltz, an evening with the Berlin Cigar Men, and a thicc event guide for art, music, stage and film.