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Central Europe

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    New Indie Video Game, Perfect for Foraging Nerds

    Amanita Design is a Czech Republic-based team of designers who make some of the most beautiful, off-beat and engaging games I've played. Like the meditative Samorost and Samorost 2 (which look like what Rene Redzepi would do if he made games instead of food).

  • Voice Choices

    April 11, 2012

    SOUND AND VISION

    Unsound Festival returns to New York

  • Voice Choices

    December 28, 2011

    TRACKING DEVICE

    New works from around the world

  • Dining

    November 23, 2011

    Holiday Guide: Heat-Seeking Victuals

    A five-borough tour of winter warm-up meals

  • Film

    September 21, 2011

    The Holocaust's Impact on One Small Town in There Was Once...

    A five-borough tour of winter warm-up meals

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Rightbloggers Discover the Real Victims of Norway Mass Murderer Breivik: Themselves

    As you probably heard, someone bombed downtown Oslo, Norway and shot up kids in nearby Utoya, killing 93 people. it turns out that the suspect is not a jihadist but an anti-jihadist -- Anders Behring Breivik, a real deport-them-all, Norway-for-the-Norwegians type who denounced "multiculturalism," "p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2011

    John Malkovich Robbed In Prague

    ​Actor John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich, among other things, has had his stuff stolen at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Prague. Malkovich was in the Czech capital to portray an Austrian serial killer in a play in the Prague Spring music festival. Now his passport and some personal belongings ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Food Trucks Get Their Own Book; Mickey D's CEO Defends Ronald McDonald

    ​Sbarro, which recently announced it might file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now considering a sale instead. [Nation's Restaurant News] Prague is getting on the foodie bandwagon, as it gears up for the Prague Food Festival, which will feature cuisines from around the world. [NY Times] A new ... More >>

  • Theater

    May 4, 2011

    The People in the Picture—That's Shoah Biz!

    Yiddish theater meets Holocaust meets Broadway tuner at Studio 54

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2011

    RECESSIONISM EXPRESSIONISM

    Views from MOMA's basement

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Q&A: Wolfram On Christmas Presents, Old Photos, And Waking Up Haddaway

    Elsa Okazaki​Wolfram recently released his debut album after years of putting out others' records on his Diskokaine label. The guest star roster for the self-titled disc is studded with dance music's heavy hitters, including Holy Ghost!, Hercules & Love Affair, Legowelt, and Haddaway of "What ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    In Astoria, Gravy [and Mouse Turds] Flood the Streets of Golden Prague

    ​While waiting for your goulash, try on a dress. [Update: Thanks to Gothamist for gently noting that the place was recently closed by the Board of Health for a whopping 86 violation points. I swear I didn't see any mouse turds near my food! The "hygienist," as DOH inspectors are called, was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Biggest Jesus in World Now Ready to Take Your Money

    via CNN​The world's tallest Jesus statue has been completed! He resides in Swiebodzin, Poland. At 170 feet tall, with a huge but handsome noggin that had to be attached by a 700-ton crane, he beats out other, "more delicate" (read: wussy) Jesuses, like the 133-foot Cristo de la Concordia in Bo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2010

    'Moving Sounds Festival Presents Fennesz'

    via CNN​The world's tallest Jesus statue has been completed! He resides in Swiebodzin, Poland. At 170 feet tall, with a huge but handsome noggin that had to be attached by a 700-ton crane, he beats out other, "more delicate" (read: wussy) Jesuses, like the 133-foot Cristo de la Concordia in Bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Music for a Russian Spy Swap in Vienna: "Third Man"

    ​The greatest spy swap since Rudolph Abel walked across a bridge between East and West Berlin back in 1962 in exchange for failed U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is pending, and if Moscow sources are correct, the perfect locale for the swap has been selected: Vienna. That's where the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    What's Happening This Week: Cinco de Mayo & Cinco de Vino

    As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Austria Uncorked Tribeca Rooftop May 5, 6-9 p.m. The hills (read: a New York City rooftop) will be alive with the taste of Austria's best wines, paired with dis ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2010

    Sweet Rush

    As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Austria Uncorked Tribeca Rooftop May 5, 6-9 p.m. The hills (read: a New York City rooftop) will be alive with the taste of Austria's best wines, paired with dis ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2009

    A CRIMINAL MIND

    Film Forum celebrates the 60th anniversary of The Third Man

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    3 Consulates Get Fake Anthrax, Nostalgia (Update: It's Flour)

    ​Autumn 2009 is making us nostalgic. First, we have a deranged Muslim killing a lot of citizens on U.S. soil. Now, we have anthrax! Or at least fake anthrax, which we also had back in the day, sonny. The New York consulates of France, Austria and Uzbekistan received anonymous packets of white ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2009

    Pamelia Kurstin

    ​Autumn 2009 is making us nostalgic. First, we have a deranged Muslim killing a lot of citizens on U.S. soil. Now, we have anthrax! Or at least fake anthrax, which we also had back in the day, sonny. The New York consulates of France, Austria and Uzbekistan received anonymous packets of white ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    Marta Topferova

    ​Autumn 2009 is making us nostalgic. First, we have a deranged Muslim killing a lot of citizens on U.S. soil. Now, we have anthrax! Or at least fake anthrax, which we also had back in the day, sonny. The New York consulates of France, Austria and Uzbekistan received anonymous packets of white ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2009

    TRIUMPH RETOLD

    A tribute to vitality in the cruelest times

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2009

    Marta Topferova

    A tribute to vitality in the cruelest times

  • Voice Choices

    September 23, 2008

    Josef Koudelka

    A tribute to vitality in the cruelest times

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2008

    BLOW SOFTLY

    Hit thy neighbor with love

  • Theater

    November 6, 2007

    Reality Czech

    The twist is "shout!" in Stoppard's new Rock 'n' Roll

  • Film

    June 5, 2007

    Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • Film

    July 19, 2005

    Film

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • Books

    May 3, 2005

    Hungarian Rhapsody

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • Columns

    March 29, 2005

    Perfect Worlds: Buch Haus

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • Theater

    October 12, 2004

    Trading Places

    Two productions—one heavy, one extra-lite—tackle race

  • NYC Life

    August 24, 2004

    The Abominable Snowman

    Plus housing in Warsaw and the thump thump of oral history's heart

  • News

    July 27, 2004

    Apocalypse Now

    Lots and lots and lots of killing

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Closely Watched Trains

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Art

    February 17, 2004

    Revisiting the relics of Central European conceptualism

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Music

    September 16, 2003

    Stylish Seriousness in Post-Techno Soundhound Country

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Film

    January 7, 2003

    Search and Rescue

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Film

    October 8, 2002

    Velvet Overground

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Theater

    July 16, 2002

    Festing on Forty Deuce

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Theater

    May 14, 2002

    Sex and the Old World City

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • Film

    March 19, 2002

    Lux et Veritas

    Boston cops—always on the lookout for fellow travelers

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Springtime for Hitler

    A New Exhibit at the Jewish Museum Produces an Uproar

  • Film

    January 29, 2002

    Like a Surgeon

    A New Exhibit at the Jewish Museum Produces an Uproar

  • Art

    April 10, 2001

    Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman

    • • • A Roving Ethnographer’s View From the Factory Floor

  • News

    October 3, 2000

    The Promise of Prague

    Bankers, Bono, and Bomb Throwers Battle It Out on the Streets of the Czech Republic

  • Art

    July 25, 2000

    Border Crossings

    Ljubljana, Lyon, and Neo-Exoticism in the New Europe

  • News

    June 20, 2000

    Dangerous Liaison

    Happiness Is Living in Secret With a Man Who Doesn’t Consider Himself Gay

  • Books

    March 14, 2000

    The Lost World

    Happiness Is Living in Secret With a Man Who Doesn’t Consider Himself Gay

  • Film

    May 4, 1999

    Dark City

    Happiness Is Living in Secret With a Man Who Doesn’t Consider Himself Gay

  • News

    August 25, 1998

    Slave Theater

    Polish Actors Come to the South Bronx To Find Freedom

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