The end of summer is usually the season for big sales, and how appropriate! It’s just the time to get a new wardrobe, and why not do it without breaking the bank? Yet there are also places that always sell clothes at a considerable discount – outlet stores. And while regular boutiques are likely to lower prices on their spring and (more…)
“A Day Without a Mexican”
I don’t know if it should be considered a conspiracy or coincidence, but the fact that the two movies showing in English on Ukraine’s wide screens this week both deal with Mexicans is hard to overlook. (more…)
You have to approach a restaurant named “Exotica” with slightly raised eyebrows. Making my way to Pier 6, off Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska, images flashed through my mind of sushi served on the recumbent bodies of naked women or a smoky Kyiv cabaret. (more…)
FILM
FRIDAY 25
Premiere: “Lady in the Water”
Indian-born writer and director M. Night Shyamalan, known for his mystical stories with unexpected endings such as “The Sixth Sense” and “The Village,” presents his new film. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who skillfully portrayed the blind girl in “The Village” (more…)
I heard it quite a few times before and I assume it’s true – one of the things that strike a newcomer to Ukraine as exotic are the outdoor markets. Of course, there are similar things in the West as well – flea markets for instance. However, in the former Soviet countries (more…)
FILMS
“Breakfast on Pluto”
“Strange boy” Cillian Murphy stars as the much stranger character Patrik “Kitten” Braden in a movie by Irish director Neil Jordan whose most famous work to day is “Interview with the Vampire. (more…)
Don’t be fooled by the bare wide parking lot as you approach Spasska pier, to which Khutorok is moored. (You can also arrive on foot, walking along the Dnipro from Poshtova Ploscha metro station, as we did, or along Skovorody street from Kontraktova Ploscha.) As soon as you descend toward the restaurant, you enter another world. (more…)
Kyiv is a city that rarely misses an opportunity to remind us just how eclectic it really is. The Pechersk district, whose visual landscape boasts an abundant array of new high-end real estate and also some of the city’s most recognizable Soviet and Orthodox
cultural and historical monuments, (more…)
THURSDAY 25
“Fedir Pryymachenko’s Signs of Polissya”
Artist Fedir Pryymachenko, whose works were once highly estimated by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko himself, presents his new exhibition “Fedir Pryymachenko’s Signs of Polissya.” (more…)
To acknowledge that Ukraine is a European country after all, Europe Day will be held here for the fourth time now, taking place in Kyiv on May 20 as well as two regional cities – Zaporizhzhya and Kharkiv. As usual, apart from simply reminding Ukrainians that they are a European nation, Europe Day will (more…)
