St. Petersburg

Russian Ark's Smooth Voyage Seems Like a Dream Play

SIBLING 

THEATRICALITY

See Three Sisters in its mother tongue

Why Do Americans Call Mexicans "Illegal"?

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Banksy Bails Out Russian Artists, Is Becoming Modern-Day Folk Hero

​Mysterious British street artist Banksy just bailed out of jail two members of a Russian art collective called Voina, which means "war." Leonid Nikolayev and Oleg Vorotnikov awaited trial in a bed bug-infested St. Petersburg prison for four months until Banksy swooped in and paid their bail. ... More >>

The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

n 1 Writer Punched in Face

via n 1.​In Soviet Russia, face punch you. In the 2010 Russia rabble-rousing Harvard-bred NYC literary journal n 1 visits? It's definitely not your face doing the punching. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, David Neumann, and Steve Paxton Voyage Together With Different Compasses

Allergy Season "Wicked Bad" This Year

If you're planning on a frolic in a field of flowers, bring along some Kleenex.​If your eyes are all red and swollen and scratchy and you're feeling generally like you got hit by a truck, or maybe a large, blooming plant of some sort, it's not because you drank too many glasses of the good stu ... More >>

BRUSH UP ON YOUR RUSSIAN

Uncle Vanya speaks his mother-tongue

A Room and a Half, An Ecstatically Fanciful Film By Andrey Khrzhanovsky

Town Brawl! Rightbloggers Applaud Aggro Outbreaks at Health Care Meetings

As you may have heard, some of the town hall meetings held by public officials for debate on Obama's health care plans have become brawls. In St. Petersburg, protesters bellowed until Representative Kathy Castor left the meeting; in St. Louis, a health care reform proponent, Brian Matthews, said h ... More >>

For All Its Fucking/Boozing/Fighting, Loren Cass Is a Radical Film

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

Brother

Ballerina Follows Russia's Masters of the Form

Kirov Ballet & Feld Ballet Tech: Tutu and Ordeal

Frisking on pointe, hanging by the heels

No Context: The Teenagers Live at Mercury Lounge

Rock and Roll Circus

Pilobolus somersaults into its 36th year

Life During Wartime

Doc captures the everyday rituals of a city under siege

Matters of Life, Death, and Art

From shivah to Shoah, the 16th annual Jewish film fest doesn't shy away from the big questions

'Russian Dolls'

Dance on Camera Festival 2006

A Subversive Soviet Treasure

Opening the Tomb

Two choreographers awaken sleeping ballets, one by adjusting history, one by starting over

Dance

Another op’nin’, another show: Dances without story don’t cut it

Bloc Heads

Ugly natives and uglier Americans in Tom Bissell's fiction

Film

Bobo's In Paradise

Canadian synth-punks weird out in the cardboard forest

NY Mirror

Does Plot Matter?

Christians battle Muslims in Russian ballet! (Anybody notice?); Eliot in drag downtown!

Moscow on the West Side: Going from Cold War to hot jazz

Moving Words

Chips Off the Old Bloc

A still-kicking Soviet-era film studio produces a Russian ark's worth of iconoclastic style

Upcoming

Golden Shower of Hits

Queer Eyes for the Great White North Sip That Yellow Snow

Crack That Nut, Girl

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

'Jewels' in the Crown

Vision Quest

Searching for the Diamonds in the Rough

Rescue Me

Studio in 1940s Co-Op Building

Global Terror

Russian Paper Cites Fear of "Uncontrollable Escalation"

Ballet Is (Dead) Woman

Expiring for Love Is Beautiful but Stupid

Nation

Reap It and Weep

Kill Mama

Russian Cons and New York Banks

It Takes Time

Read All About It!

Dancers on the Page