Bierhimmel

One of the few places in town where gays, lesbians, heteros, transvestites, tourists and locals socialise together, Bierhimmel (Beer Heaven) on Kreuzberg's bustling Oranien Strasse is quite unique. The bar has just been given a makeover which has seen the main room painted bright yellow and the legendary Backroom stripped of the fun fur and kitsch that has adorned it for more than a decade. Spacey furniture and luminous colours have been installed but there's no change to the music, which still takes in everything from Nightmares on Wax to Barry White.

Marc Cary Quarter

He looks like a cross between Herbie Hancock and a cartoon superhero, but Cary is the real deal: a jazz pianist with chops and highly organised musical visions. He cut his teeth in D.C.'s 1980s go-go scene and eventually graduated from the Duke Ellington School for the Arts, and his sense of groove is evident on albums like 'Rhodes Ahead, Vol. 1', in which he takes the Rhodes Piano into a whole new dimension. With song titles like 'Saturn's Return' and 'Take Me Higher' you can tell Cary's shows will take you trippin'.

Full Moon

San Francisco based Michael Light trawled through 32,000 photographs taken of and on the moon during the years of the Apollo Missions to select the 100 that appear here. Some are as familiar as the footprint in the lunar dust, others have been rarely sighted before but all of them produce a sense of awe. The technical quality of the images is excellent and, considering all of the photographers were by amateurs, the artistic sensibility is exceptionally high.