Lifestyle

Hot Shots to the Gut: Warm Winter Foods

ean winter, with its permanent ice-mist – that silvery harbinger of the flu – is starting to settle over Kyiv. The point was to compile a list of …
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Anyone for Soup?

talking about soup. In anticipation of winter, we’ve asked members of our community to write in with their favorite warming soup recipes: …
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Lunch with … dream-chaser, positive thinker Dianna Derhak.

Buffalo, New York native Dianna Derhak had just finished her bungee jump off the bridge at Kamyanets-Podilsk this past summer when a thought came into …
Paul Miazga

Art Club 44 3rd Birthday.

s to play in the festival finale at the National Philharmonic with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, led by Mykola Dyadura. The youngsters should …
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A Rebel Yell: Grazhdanskaya Oborona Play Kyiv.

e) will soon hit Kyiv to deliver their 20-year jubilee concert. This autumn’s quite notable for rock veterans GO. Band leader Yegor Letov has turned …
Alexandra Matoshko

Ukraine Palace in November: Please Take Your Seats.

There’s something about the Ukraine Palace concert hall that doesn’t quite make sense.This stiff Soviet era venue, with seating for 3,700 (emphasis on …
Paul Miazga

Photo Studies in Patriotic Hues

The first thing I saw walking into the street after seeing the “Memorabilis” exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art was a beautiful old yellow …
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Pop Notes: Playboy Parties and M1 Models

Hustler magazine is here, and we’ve got Russian and Polish versions of Playboy and a Ukrainian version of Penthouse – but no Playboy of our own. Local …
Alexandra Matoshko

Mustard Tones: A Great Neighborhood Cafe

that the most satisfying restaurants in Kyiv tend to be other than the deluxe ones. Before I get to Gorchitsa, here’s my obnoxious reason why: I’m …
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Podil’s Best Street

hreshchatytska – but the byways off these beaten paths beckon to the amateur historian and the casual wanderer, or to couples taking their toddler out …
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Lunch with … junior OSCE elections officer Lida Chachula.

office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). “I grew up speaking Ukrainian as my native language, not English.” She took …
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Dynamo gets Real.

AN lang=EN-US style=”mso-ansi-language: EN-US”> HOCKEY: Belarus Open Championship. The National Hockey League might not be playing this year, but …
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Serge Gainsbourg in film, photos and music.

pop singer was such a phenomenon – such a miracle of dissolution, of sleazy charisma – it’s hard to know what to say about him. What more needs to be …
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Pop Notes – New smut arrives on the Steppe.

blisher Flynt as a defender of free speech; but despite the movie’s success, some critics consider Hustler nothing more than a lewd porno mag. But the …
Alexandra Matoshko

Halloween’s here: Who wants blood?

some of us it brings back fine memories of destroying pumpkins and shaving creaming cars with the other brats. Where to celebrate in Kyiv? Read …
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Dining under the big top: Uzbek food at Bataye

Surprisingly, the two yurts – tents, to a Central Asian – standing side by side right next to the Protasiv Yar ski hill look only slightly out of …
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50 Great Things About Kyiv

> The pizza at Limoncello Grill. Think Kyiv’s not a pizza town? Check out these pies, especially the one with tuna fish.Podil’s side streets. Moody, …
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Lunch with … Hard-rocking RAF Flight Sergeant Chris Swain.

l lot that Royal Air Force Flight Sergeant Chris Swain of the British Embassy can look forward to in his job. Day in, day out, he works behind a desk …
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