By Water

The Berlin Festival is May 29-31 at Arena Park on the Spree. Fritz Kalkbrenner, James Blake, Westbam, Agoria. There’s a detail this year that actually appeals to me: rafts from the Oberbaum bridge taking you straight onto the grounds. It’s the kind of detail that shouldn’t matter but does—arriving by water instead of trudging through a car park changes the shape of the evening somehow. Might actually go this time.