Issue 4470. Last Updated: 09/03/2010

03/22/2002

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Surf Strains, the Seventies & Shiny Scalps

Imagine a band that mixes a buzzing rock 'n' roll guitar, 1960s-style surf music and American garage punk. Now, add a bald Englishman and you've got the near-legendary Sir Bald Diddley and His Wig Outs, who begin a mini-tour of Moscow this week

Musica Viva Fest Set to Commence

This weekend and the three to follow, the Old Tretyakov Gallery plays host to an unusually adventurous festival of chamber music entitled ""Russia and Europe: 1900 to 1917.""

At Exhibit, Bug's Eye View

This week Vladimir Lagranzh, the once widely-respected photographer of the Soviet-era magazine ""Soviet Life,"" hosts his latest exhibit of nature photography.

Nixing the Six Degrees of Separation

Willy Birkemaier could hardly keep from crying. He had been searching for his lost love for 53 years. And today he'd found her.

Masyanya's Rise -- Shiftless Cyberpunk Rules the Web

Your parents would surely disapprove of this girl. She's a foul-mouthed, dope-smoking idler with a skirt that's much too short and far too few teeth in her mouth. She has no job, no respect for authority and sports a cackle so piercing that it's painful to the unaccustomed ear.

Find Solace in the Cellars of Vilnius

Vilnius offers more than a relaxing weekend getaway -- for among its quaint cafes and souvenir shops, you'll find plenty of reminders of its often bloody history.

Transition to Capitalism in Black & White

Anders Åslund, the Swedish economist who helped shape economic reform in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, has a quality rarely exhibited in macroeconomics: passion.

Cook's Corner -- Loaf Of Love

I had lots of different jobs in my student days. I was an aerobics instructor in Virginia, an au pair in Italy. In Brooklyn I interviewed disgruntled Russian immigrants. But the job best suited to my natural abilities was a campus position I had in college -- baking cookies.

Looking for a Little Pulp Fiction?

Now that I have devoured the entire stash of English-language books I bought during my last trip to Britain and read everything my friends and colleagues were kind enough to lend me, I have discovered that there are precious few places in Moscow where one can find contemporary English literature.

Subtle Sprinkles of Sensitivity & Skill

When the white noise of the present fades away, Ugarov's plays -- including ""Oblom Off,"" a shrewd and daring dramatization of Ivan Goncharov's classic 19th-century novel ""Oblomov"" that has just opened at the Vysotsky Center -- will be here to stay.

Fettuccine Fantasies & Dolce Dreams

If the Italian immigrants of Queens could reinvent Italian fare for America in the early part of the 20th century, then perhaps the same could happen in Moscow.

Amusement on the Avenue of Affluence

Biscuit, the newest addition to the high-priced end of the clubbing scene, is currently enjoying a spot at the top of the clubbing scene's pecking order -- a position it certainly deserves.

A Rare Case, When War Isn't Hell

Telling a brutal story set in Chechnya, Alexei Balabanov leaves no doubt that the enemy is in this case a literal and very cruel one -- and because it is war, you have to kill him before he kills you.

Global Eye -- Empire Burlesque

President Osama B. Laden has called for a regime change in the U.S., saying the dictatorship of unelected strongman George W. Bush ""is an ever-present threat to world peace.""

The Man Behind the Actor Behind the Dying Dictator

Though he has played film versions of Chekhov, Hitler and Lenin, Leonid Mozgovoi's most challenging role has yet to hit the cinema. Mozgovoi recently spoke to The Moscow Times about his upcoming film ""The Russian Ark.""


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