vol. 4 #12 – 5 July 2011
The Sentinel Amsterdam
Integrity, heart, humour
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Amsterdam when the sun shines! lifestyle
Pure Amsterdam TRAVEL PERSPECTIVES OPINION TECHNOLOGY ART TRENDS FILM CARTOON CLASSIFIEDS
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In this issue FEATURE p. 03 PERSPECTIVES
Amsterdam when the sun shines!
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Tripping days
“Where are you from?”’
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‘Amsterdam South is best described as having very quiet and beautiful neighbourhoods’
technology p. 28 art p. 30 more:
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Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger
‘The myth that Macs are only for creative people is untrue’
review p. 32 Pure Amsterdam FILM REVIEW Room 2C CARTOON
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Contributors: Bianka Bosch, Simon Owusu, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Sharmin de Vries, David King, Colin Bentley & Dirkje Bakker
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Amsterdam when the sun shines! By Denson Pierre
In the second instalment of opinion-fuelled perspectives on his beloved city, Denson Pierre looks south.
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‘It is largely populated by 50-plussers and mature families of the good, hard-working and business-creative kind’
Amsterdam Zuid (South)
Albert Cuyp market, as an unexceptional hawker of fresh fruit, vegetables or fish.
Do not be fooled into imagining great material affluence among the many who claim to prosper while living in Amsterdam South. Although it is the wealthiest city district in all of the Netherlands, its high-earner image does not apply to the majority of people who live there and, in global terms, it could almost be considered cheap, compared with the wealthier districts of places like New York and Tokyo. A high proportion of the very rich do live in exceptional parts of Amsterdam South, in very nice, well-designed and grand houses and apartments. However, Amsterdam, unlike many other great European cities, did not evolve in modern times and hence does not have such clearly defined borders between the haves and the have bits and ambition. The mighty and the wealthy have always tended to live in rather close proximity to their neighbours either involved in service industry employment or service to them.
‘Rates in this part of the city now make it painful to imagine the lower-waged struggling to live and socialise here’
Amsterdam South is best described as having very quiet and beautiful neighbourhoods, devoid of the usual mayhem and excess generally associated with Amsterdam, whether rightly or wrongly, these days. It is largely populated by 50-plussers and mature families of the good, hard-working and business-creative kind. On the flipside to this, there are a couple of only recently run-down, working-class sub-neighbourhoods, which have transformed themselves into fake exclusive and happening areas. I say fake only because it is no good living in a so-called chic neighbourhood, with an entire infrastructure based solely around pricey and noisy consumption, when you are living in a 45-square-metre apartment that absorbs more than half of your monthly net income just to occupy it. It galls me to think that only a decade ago, such a space would likely have been the home of a humble local, working in a bar, restaurant or even on the district’s world-famous
Rates in this part of the city now make it painful to imagine the lower-waged struggling to live and socialise here. The enjoyment of Amsterdam South is maybe at its best when you are very settled and want nothing more than to have a quiet and luxurious home life in proximity to the heart of an old major city. Vondel Park, Beatrix Park and Amstel Park provide nearby and reasonably untroubled space for outdoor relaxation, outside of high summer when they, too, become overrun by the overheated masses. There are two fine, historically fashioned public-access swimming pools, multi-purpose sporting halls, numerous gyms and small stadia to keep the fitness focused involved, but not the attractions your general tourist or newly arrived expat resident would find wildly engrossing. For those who appreciate architecture, Amsterdam South is a must. If you are successful enough to comfortably afford to live in this borough’s nicest areas, I imagine it would be extremely pleasant. But as a simple sightseer or student of urban styling, then not only the houses and apartment blocks will tweak your interest but also the spanking new (low) skyscrapers within the financial district at Zuider Amstel, which have finally given Amsterdam a partially modern skyline. Amsterdam South is also home to the world-famous and stunning Museum Quarter but you can read about that anywhere. On the other hand, the absolute best Michelin star-rated restaurants in the city are situated in the South. I will not mention the names here, as The Sentinel is not too busy promoting haute cuisine and any restaurant that has two Michelin stars should be known to you already, if you can
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afford to dine there. More affordably, one of the most consistently highly praised fish restaurants sits on the Scheldeplein, with hugely renowned Japanese specialities also available a short walk away at the Hotel Okura. Even more affordable and fuller-flavoured food is readily available at Amsterdam’s now long-term best in highly spiced food; the British-Pakistani Balti House, which is located just around the corner from the Amsterdam South Red Light strip.
‘You would be challenged to find anything as tasty, fresh and sensibly priced as that at the nearby Surinamese-fusion restaurants, Albina and Nieuw Albina’ Otherwise, for great ethnically diverse and convenient cooked food anywhere in Amsterdam, you would be challenged to find anything as tasty, fresh and sensibly priced as that at the nearby Surinamese-fusion restaurants, Albina and Nieuw Albina.
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My own time living in Amsterdam South (three spells residing, and 16 years socialising) has spanned not only the transformation of the demographic of the internationalised segments but also the time it has taken for the city to shift its administrative boundaries, so that the South now includes areas that, ten years ago, I did not know other Amsterdammers even considered to be part of the ‘real city’. Hopefully, the eventual completion of the Noord/Zuidlijn, thus linking the entire length of the city and finally properly connecting Amsterdam South to the public transport network, will mean a greater move towards residents here realising that there will never be sufficient parking spaces for their generally superfluous automobiles, unless they live in the ultra-exclusive street clusters. Then again, the properly well off generally have enclosed space as part of their city mini-estates and the other strivers can smoulder as they regularly circle the district in search of a parking spot within easy reach of their living quarters or workplace in the most crowded sector of prettier Amsterdam. Excellent car share and pooling schemes are extremely well represented in this area, so it really is a matter of choice, even if you do prefer to drive yourself. Amsterdam South is millionaires’ row in places but you are unlikely to meet these top liners having a friendly beer, sharing a spliff or rolling with the international and classy moderates that The Sentinel tends to represent.
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Expat Plu By Bianka Bosch
One of the first questions people like asking when they meet someone new is “Where are you from?”, which is usually easy to answer for most people. If you are one of the growing few to have grown up as an ‘intercultural kid’ or as a ‘third culture kid’, however, then this can be one of the hardest questions a person can ask, since there is no simple answer. Of course, we are all born with a nationality and some people even take on a new nationality, but a nationality does not always define where you are from. When you are faced with the “Where are you from?” dilemma, it usually ends up with you having to tell your entire life story, or at least a condensed version of it. There has been much research done on Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and officially these are children born outside of their parents’ culture. Many TCKs spend most of their pre-20s travelling around and living in different countries. They are very able to adapt and find it easier to relate to other TCKs, rather than people from a monocultural background. They say the grass is always greener on the other side and many people who meet TCKs make comments like “Wow, it must have been so great to grow up in so many places.”
It’s true, it was. I feel privileged to have travelled to many parts of the world that most people consider holiday destinations and to have had the chance to witness different cultures and take a small piece of them with us.
‘We lack an understanding of our own ‘culture’ But there is also a downside. Many TCKs find it a shock to move back to their country of passport origin, which is usually where at least one of the parents comes from but where we TCKs have spent very little time ourselves. We lack an understanding of our own ‘culture’. We have little connection to our country but feel the need to fit in. Because this is where we are from, officially, people around us expect us to be more connected to the culture. What they don’t understand is that we lack any connection to the country, other than the passport. Our ‘home’ country is a place we probably just visited on holiday. Our parents will tell us about our ‘home culture’ and teach us a few things. That is where at least one of them is from and whose people and culture they most identify with. But they are expats and their memories of home are all they can pass on to us. So, we learn elements of our home culture but lack the first-hand, daily experience of it.
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‘We are all born with a nationality and some people even take on a new nationality’
you will always be an expat. We’re elite expats but ‘Many of us lack the hun- world, quite often carrying an identity crisis. ger or passion we hear in other people’s voices when ‘Try to fit in but not so they announce where they hard that you stick out even more’ are from’ This is possibly one of the reasons why we are such an While I can understand how fascinating all this might seem, and it certainly did have its benefits, in many instances, we end up being drifters. Many of us lack the hunger or passion we hear in other people’s voices when they announce where they are from. We hear endearing stories of people who have grown up in one town and have had the same set of friends throughout their entire lives. In fact, most of their family is usually just a short drive away. They have a clear sense of ‘home’; there is always one place in their life that no place in the world can ever better. In contrast, our sense of home varies. Some choose the last destination in which they lived while, for others, it is wherever their parents happen to be, or perhaps a country or city about which they have very fond memories. It might even be all of the above. This shapes a TCK into the ultimate expat, since no matter where you travel in the
extremely adaptable group. TCKs are able to wear several masks for different scenarios. We have learned how to observe our surroundings, to learn how the people around us are behaving and then mould our personality into the appropriate behaviours. Close, but not too close – try to fit in but not so hard that you stick out even more. Accept our differences but still try to relate to another person or group of people. The fact is that this world gets smaller and smaller by the day and it is now quite common to marry someone of a different nationality. This means that there will be even more children growing up in the intercultural lifestyle. Being raised in a house of two nationalities, plus the third in which they live, means that these children will most likely take the place of us TCKs as the new cultural elite.
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‘Visit my own favourite city in the Benelux’ By Denson Pierre
With the hanging suspicion that Belgium, like Italy and Spain, will be next to join those nations already shamed for their inability to manage their economies in the face of banking industry madness and global economic change, we decided to visit my own favourite city in the Benelux, to help a great cultural and fun city remain above the bankruptcy point for a little longer. A trip to Antwerp from Amsterdam is remarkably easy to accomplish. It is a pleasant two-hour ride by train from Amsterdam Central, using the international Intercity connection. This train makes a few stops along the way, so if you’re feeling flash and flush, you could instead take the high-speed Thalys, which will get you there in about an hour, but will set you back an extra wad of euros. Each time I arrive in Antwerp, I find myself remarking that it feels not so different to Amsterdam, in terms of general ambiance. A great difference, however, is that it does not have such a high concentration of tiny streets or thousands of bicycles traversing any and every paved surface. Flemish (Dutch) is the language spoken here but, maybe because of its huge international port city tradition, almost everyone seems eager to speak in English. Maybe this is also a reaction to the rather tiresome battles they have on their national socio-cultural plate regarding the French language issue some struggle with. If Brussels is a wannabe Paris in that regard then Antwerp is Amsterdamplus, with its wide avenues and surprisingly exhaustive shopping options, which are well connected and comprehensively laid-out for easy retail therapy. I had to quicken my step past the display windows ever so often, given that wifey is professionally, and certainly gender-specifically, drawn to browse and shop. I normally use Euronews (le mag) to do the scanning for me of cultural events and shows that I tend to find interesting across Europe. Some three weeks before our recent visit, Euronews brought to my attention the rather spectacular developments and upcoming exhibitions at the new and challenging MAS (www.mas.be). Let me just say that this is a must do, if you can. To say any more would be
cheating you of the enjoyment and amazement you will experience over the 3-4 hours it takes to properly peruse the many floors of well-thought-out exhibitions. Once you are replete with the above wonders, do make a beeline to Cafe/Restaurant W aanzee (www.waanzee. be). You will be hard pressed to find a nicer family run business with great lunch and snack options easily washed down by high-quality beers, on offer at prices (for the same drinks and measures) I have not seen in Amsterdam-major for over a decade. Of course, this does not mean that Belgium or Antwerp is ten years behind Amsterdam in any way (OK, the tiny vintage trams are an anachronism) but just that, in general, people here are naturally cooler than us hotheads of Noord Holland. Because people are so much more relaxed, having a fun time comes that much easier, compared to Amsterdam. For a start, there is not so deliberately a drug of choice culture here. No coffee shops or ‘too much sex in your face’ areas to stumble into. Stumbling can come easily, though, as Belgians are undoubtedly the kings and queens in the art of making, presenting, serving and enjoying beer. Not that every Belgian or Antwerp resident who takes alcohol is necessarily a tempered beer connoisseur but the fact that the beers usually ensure complex taste experiences at high alcohol levels by volume seems to calm the entire drinking out experience. Tourists also appear to catch on to this quickly; during the course of three days and two nights of advanced-level beer research, I cannot recall a single edgy or negatively raucous incident in any of the many establishments visited. More interestingly, folk seemed to understand how to dose themselves to ‘nice and tipsy’ levels and are not as keen as our volume-drinking Amsterdam, London, Munich, Dublin, Prague, Sydney and Port-of-Spain friends, who often project just being keen to get as much in as the skin can take. We have a lot to learn from super socially nice Antwerp and Belgium, so you can be sure that we will focus on them again in another couple months. Do not wait for us, though; head to Antwerp for fun at 15% less expense than Amsterdam, as standard. As they say with their easy smiles ‘simple’.
‘You will be hard pressed to find a nicer family run business with great lunch and snack options easily washed down by high-quality beers’
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A small selection of the exhibited art at MAS
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‘It feels not so different to Amsterdam, in terms of general ambiance’
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‘If Brussels is a wannabe Paris in that regard then Antwerp is Amsterdam-plus’
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Omer. – Winner (Gold) – World Beer Cup 2010
Triple Karmeliet – Beer of the Year 2008 (Ale)
La Chouffe – World Beer Championship, 2000 (Public prize)
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‘A great computing experience that you cannot get from a Windows PC’
‘Macs are good value for money’
‘With a Mac, there is no outlay on software for viruses, firewalls, encryption, diagnostic tools or content-creation tools’
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‘My current Mac is five years old and I still use it heavily, which can’t be said about most, if not all, five-year-old PCs’
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I’ve been using computers since forever; starting with Commodores, Acorns, Spectrums and Atari, up to present-day ThinkPads, Latitudes, Aspires and Vaios. With over 15 years in IT, working on Windows PCs, servers, enterprise systems and applications, I can comfortably say I am a fully fledged card-carrying member of the PC community. I’ve built them, designed systems on them, repaired them and trashed them, only to rebuild them again just for the fun of it. However, many moons ago, I left the dark side to follow the light.
thing, you will do it again and again, and not many people love using Windows PCs. They use them because they have to or because they don’t know any better.
Macs are good value for money. If you were to buy a Windows PC with the same performance capabilities as an equivalent Mac, the price of the former would be astronomical. This is why you don’t see heavy content-producing agencies or record studios using Windows PCs, because to match an equivalent Mac would be more expensive with less than desirable results. Also, take into consideration the cost of owning a PC. With a Mac, there is no outlay on software for viruses, firewalls, encryption, diagnostic tools or content-creation tools (audio, visual, etc.), because they are already built into the OS (Operating System) out of the box. Macs have almost everything you need to accomplish I’m not the creative type usually associated with Macs. I your tasks without spending an extra penny. What do you don’t wear sandals or hug trees. I can’t draw and the only thing I can play is my Xbox, so the myth that Macs are only get with the Windows OS? For instance, the next version for creative people is untrue. As someone who was heavily of the Mac OS will cost around g30 compared to Windows 7 Ultimate which was around g220. Bear in mind that invested in PCs, why did I convert to the Church of Apple the g30 covers all of your computers, so if you have five and the Word according to Steve Jobs? Well, in the beginning, the PC was void and without form, and Jobs said, “Let Macs, the price is still g30. Try upgrading all your PCs with me revolutionise the personal computer”. And then there Windows Ultimate and then try telling me Macs are more was the Mac. And people saw that it was good. And I saw it, expensive, in the long run. too, and started using them. A Mac means fewer crashes and fewer support issues, because the software and hardware is created by the The first thing you discover about a Mac is its ease of use, ‘It just works’. With an iPod or iPad, you know how to use same company, so it’s all integrated and works seamlessly. them instinctively, it seems, and the Mac is the same. That Unlike Windows PCs, Macs don’t slow down after a year level of intuition is part of the Apple philosophy of making or two and it is not uncommon to hold on to a Mac for more than five years. My current Mac is five years old computing easy. This leads to a great computing experience that you cannot get from a Windows PC. Most people and I still use it heavily, which can’t be said about most, if not all, five-year-old PCs. Proof of this is in the resale don’t really care what is underneath the hood; they care about completing the task at hand without worrying about value of Macs; they don’t depreciate quickly. Take a look how it is done, so a great experience cannot be quantified at what you can get for a five-year-old Mac compared to a five-year-old PC. by processor speeds or hard drive sizes. This is why Mac users will tell you how great it is to use their Mac, instead of the number of IO ports it has or the processor speed. Comparing a Mac experience to a Windows experience is like comparing apples to oranges. If you love doing some-
Ultimately, I love computing and more people should, too, and this I know is much easier with a Mac. I should know, I spent a lot of time in both camps and I guarantee you, once you go Mac, you won’t go back!
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ART Gerda Steiner and JĂśrg Lenzlinger began collaborating in 1997. Their work engages matter in a process of reproduction and creation; they explore the reactions between different kinds of matter within a given space and, by establishing relationÂships between physical, organic, and immaterial elements, produce mutation. In their transformation into organic entities, even trash and plastic waste become mystical.
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‘The city is rapidly evolving and catering to the needs of increasingly aware consumers who want to tap into a greener and healthier lifestyle without compromising on taste’ On a rather windy and rainy Sunday morning, during what should have been a sunny, almost summer’s day but instead seemed completely hijacked by autumn, I traipsed to the Zuidas, also known as the gleaming financial heart of Amsterdam. Notoriously quiet on weekends, some people, myself included, braved the cold to visit the Pure Markt organic farmers market to indulge in all the good craftsmanship and pure ingredients on offer. Pure Markt was actually set up in 2008 but, with nothing but a few stalls tucked away on the Dappermarkt in the eastern part of the city, it neither gained momentum nor a huge following. All that has now changed and people can visit the market at its prime Frankendael location, in the east of Amsterdam, or the Zuidas. The market now travels to other cities, such as Alphen a/d Rijn and The Hague, as well (see website agenda). Amsterdam has been at the forefront of some fantastic initiatives to promote and display organically grown produce, bringing bountiful offerings from our local farmers to the city. Be it farmers markets, organic supermarkets or restaurants using sustainable food products, the city is rapidly evolving and catering to the needs of increasingly aware consumers who want to tap into a greener and healthier lifestyle without compromising on taste. Au contraire, it’s all about awakening the senses and finding the next food sensation. For many years, the Noordermarkt has been flying the flag for farmers, who travel to Amsterdam every Saturday to showcase and sell their locally grown produce or handmade pastries. In my book, it’s pretty hard to outshine what is widely considered to be one of the best farmers markets in the country. The Pure Markt offers similar produce and, at first glance, seems like a welcome addi-
tion, rather than a novel alternative. On closer inspection, however, I became wildly enamoured by some of the stalls and their offerings.
‘Drawn to shiny wine bottles gleaming in the distance, I made a beeline for the organic wine stall and immersed myself’ Instantly drawn to shiny wine bottles gleaming in the distance, I made a beeline for the organic wine stall and immersed myself in tales of robust flavours, dynamic organic farming and perfect accompaniments. No sooner had I pointed at a neatly displayed ensemble of Portuguese red, white and rosé than the importer took out a wine glass and cracked open the bottles one by one. Vinha da Malhada is the name of this terrific wine and I enjoyed sampling all three bottles, although the white stood out tenfold. Other tantalising displays included Korean vegetable pancakes, a Scottish Dundee rum cake at a bakery stall, a row full of green, yellow and red pepper jams and French nougat produced entirely without the use of preservatives, including delicious flavours such as cranberry, honey-almond and citrus-plum. It’s common knowledge that the food you buy from farmers markets and organic supermarkets is much more expensive. Good craftsmanship does not come cheap. Hopefully by supporting these initiatives on a grand scale, the move towards purely organic agricultural development will increase, which, in turn, will make it more affordable for everyone. A very idealistic wish in times of economic crises and radical budget reforms but there’s no time like the present to further promote healthier and tastier local produce. After all, healthier people are a lot cheaper and the money saved on medical bills can be used to support local farmers and importers. www.puremarkt.nl
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Room 2c film By David King
Love and Death (1975) Woody Allen and Diane Keaton have made many films together but I consider this to be their best. Woody plays a cowardly Russian peasant who – together with his wife, who only married him after a duel result went against her – sets out to kill the invader of his homeland, Napoleon. That’s the story and now our couple embark on a rampage of visual and verbal humour that assaults our funny bones with such perfect precision that we have to raise a white flag and concede to its genius.
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Hey barman, it’s my birthday today, how about a free drink?
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‘What we end up with is one month of spring, two months of summer, eight months of fall and one month of winter’
Miss Fortune By Dirkje Bakker
The weather in the Netherlands is getting worse by the year, it seems. Although, generally speaking, the average temperature is slowly rising, either due to effects of global warming or for other reasons. Spring has recently become summer but summer itself has turned into a kind of warm fall (autumn). Traditionally, fall is just more of the same poor weather we get in summer and winter feels like fall with short spells of extremely cold weather and lots of snow. What we end up with is one month of spring, two months of summer, eight months of fall and one month of winter. It makes me wonder whether fashion brands and designers are already realising that actually, instead of four different collections per year, they could get away with three fall collections and one for spring/summer that has lots of scarves and cardigans to combine with thin dresses and skirts – plus a lot of warm and waterproof coats that can be worn during the entire year. Are they adapting at all? For the Netherlands, it’s not such a bad thing that the summer is a bit of a let down, as I’ve just read about another not so great trend; if we are to believe the environmental controllers, Dutch bathing (swimming) waters are becom-
ing less healthy by the year. So now a fresh dip in any of our many inland lakes isn’t so attractive, in any case. Another trend spreading rapidly is that of European countries going bankrupt or balancing on the brink of economic ruin. Now that Greece’s financially disastrous situation has reached the point where serious suggestions are being made about selling some islands (they have plenty of those, at least), or even the Acropolis (the Chinese are, of course, very interested), we are left wondering who will be next in line… Is there a connection between the weather transforming into eternal fall and economic shifts? Is there a formula that connects rising temperatures and the generation of cash? Maybe the meaning of the word fall could provide some enlightenment. History of the word ‘fall’: The exact derivation is unclear, the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning “to fall from a height” and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th-century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like “fall of the leaf” and “fall of the year”.[11 Before I forget: wear Chinos and jumpsuits this summer/ fall!
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