It wouldn’t be too disengenuous to say that the iPad presentation has been widely discussed among local media circles as it has become eventually clear when and how Internet will terminate the magazines. It’s going to happen soon and very elegantly – in the shape of this thin silver rectangle. Read More
Moscow
aka The Third Rome, The First Throne, The Forty Forties, Whitestone
Uniqlo arrives, finally
igor | February 28th, 2010
There is only one word you might coin when it comes to mass fashion in Moscow and the word is ’slow’. Read More
Miseducation
igor | February 22nd, 2010
‘School’ is often compared to British ‘Skins’ but the principal difference is that ‘School’ depicts real-life stories in a home video format reflecting the whole bunch of shit things Russian children have to wrestle – from teachers corruption to illegal abortion and prostitution. Read More
Imaginarium at Soviet-era cinema hall
igor | February 20th, 2010
Coming back from the opening night of Terry Gulliam’s ‘Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’, I have to admit it was as surrealistic as it was supposed to be. The screening took place at recently reopened Soviet-era cinema hall ‘Pioneer’ with all its bizarre and silly grandeur and splendid entourage. Read More
Moody Shopping
igor | February 20th, 2010
Andrew Kovalev is a grey-figure of Moscow concept-stores business. He has been standing behind the best stores selling independent designers in Russia, so nobody was actually astonished when he came up with a beautiful sequel to his collection. The new project has a queer name ‘Mood Swings Apartment Stores’ and is designed purely for women. Read More
Cops on fire
igor | February 18th, 2010
Musicals are not something closely associated with hip-hop and underground. Nevertheless Moscow based hip-hop community How2Make produced a classic 100-% pure musical ‘Cops on Fire’ about dusty days of Moscow policemen. Read More
Circumstances matter
igor | December 2nd, 2009
Young Moscow-based director Pavel Ruminov showed up with a new experimental work after several years of silence. His new film is called ‘Circumstances’ and it is basically a psychological insight into the strange world of surprise interconnections between human lives produced in the form of naive old-school comedy. Read More
Stand Up TV
igor | December 1st, 2009
Stand Up comedy is taking over popular Russian TV channels. The grotesque name of the most rated program on Saturday evenings – Projectorparishilton – shouldn’t confuse you as it is the first coup de fresh air for ages on the blue screens of local television. Read More
Kitchen talks
igor | November 30th, 2009
Private kitchens used to stand in the epicenter of Moscow social life due to the lack of public space in this city. But even today, despite an abundance of catering-to-all-tastes places, true party goers are gathering around kitchen tables again, at least once in a week. Read More
Chocolate Factory
igor | November 29th, 2009
There is a splendid red-brick factory almost overlooking the Kremlin just on the embankment of Moscow-river. For ages it has been polluting the air in the city centre with the persistent smell of fresh chocolate. It used to be a chocolate factory and now – this is a new art-cluster for hipsters. Read More
Back to the bars
igor | September 25th, 2009
Drugs aside, fuck disco bolus (disco bolus? – ed), in times of financial turmoil everybody is back to their roots. Drinks in all their variety are again top issue at many recently opened bars and even micro-bars. We have two spots on a list – Filial and Lillenthal at Kitay-gorod club district, both aren’t big enough to hold even a group of three average Russian dudes but every night they are besieged by hordes of easy-fun-lovers. Read More
Dirty baleariс dances still run the show
igor | September 25th, 2009
After a series of fanzine hipster parties (always named in mysteriously bizarre way like “Kolya, ty ne s toy zhivesh’ – literally ‘Kolya, you are living with a wrong girl’) which always took place in the shittiest garrets and basements in central Moscow, a new wave of local music celebrities has emerged, famous not only for their dj talents but also ability to sustain five different parties in a row astir. Among them two former indie-rockers converted into Balearic-house djs – Eat My Beat Mr. Lenski. Read More
Pop-up stores bubbling up in all areas
igor | September 24th, 2009
Moscow fashion and streetwear scene is bubbling with pop-up and concept-stores opening up every-day. Now it has become as cheap and trendy as it has never been before. Everybody is obsessed with bringing weird designers from places like Japan or Brazil to Russia, throwing a party, opening a tiny corner at one of abandoned factories and closing it in two months in order to get back to drinking.
Grabbing fresh music to go on ‘Advanced Music’
igor | September 24th, 2009
Good place to grab fresh music news is a blog Advanced Music made by a promo team standing behind famous Moscow parties called Idle Conversation. They are musicians and djs themselves travelling non-stop all over the world. There are good reviews, downloads and travel remarks every day. Read More
New wave of German art-house getting attention
igor | September 24th, 2009
Lots of things I’m personally waiting for. I like Michael Haneke and looking forward for the first screening of his latest ‘Das Weise Band’. German mentality is pretty close to Russians and new wave of German art-house films have been quite a success in Moscow. Read More