Issue 4354. Last Updated: 03/22/2010

08/09/2002

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Town Braces Itself for Rock Invasion

The stables have been vacated, the amplifiers are plugged in and the Ramenskoye hippodrome is ready to rock. It's time again for Nashestviye.

Stravinsky & Balanchine: Petersburg on the Hudson

One spring day in 1925, Igor Stravinsky, the diminutive 42-year-old Russian composer with the beak nose and thick round glasses, dropped in on Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo to observe the restaging of his 1920 ""musical fairy tale,"" ""Le Chant du Rossignol.""

Stepping Into the Worlds of Three Great Dancers

Who is Merce Cunningham? And Mikhail Baryshnikov? Who was Rudolf Nureyev? Three handsomely produced dance books answer those questions, in pictures and in words, in varying degrees.

Film Cleverly Revisits a Strange Death

One of the enduring legends of Hollywood has it that William Randolph Hearst mistakenly shot producer, director and studio founder Thomas Ince aboard the newspaper tycoon's yacht when his intended target was Charlie Chaplin, whom he believed was having an affair with his mistress, film star Marion Davies.

Island-Hopping at Tranquil Lake Seliger

Lake Seliger has long been a popular vacation destination for Muscovites, offering abundant opportunities for fishing, hunting, camping, boating and swimming.

Cook's Corner -- Fruit Cobbler

As I write this, before me is a bowl of very ripe peaches and apricots, trying their utmost to go bad before I can eat them. I see them softening even as I watch.

They Aim for a Land Down Under

The inclusion of Australia's most beloved foodstuff, Vegemite, on the menu inspired high hopes that Australian Open would prove to be an authentic Aussie pub.

Chilling Out Beyond the Garden's Gates

Sad, the city's newest outdoor club appeared just a few weeks ago on the nightlife map -- just in time to take advantage of summer's last hurrah.

Global Eye -- Darkness at Noon

True, Saddam Hussein is a tyrant who deals in political murder, ethnic cleansing, mass repression and war -- but the United States generally likes that in a foreign leader.

Tragic Tale of One Rave and Two Cities

It was supposed to be the biggest event of the northern capital's summer, and a triumph for exclusive Moscow club Zeppelin in the backyard of its St. Pete competitors.

Union of Opera, Metal

The term ""Astral-Metalhead"" might be considered an oxymoron -- by anyone but a fan of Finland's Nightwish.

Annual Vyborg Film Fest Opens

The 10th annual ""Window on Europe"" festival of Russian film opens Friday in Vyborg, in the Leningrad region.


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