Май 18-е, Пятница
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Куда пойти в Сан-Франциско в мае
ЧТО, ГДЕ, КОГДА Концерты классической музыки, опера и балет San Francisco Symphony приглашает в понедельник, 14 мая, в Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Ave.) на второй концерт New...
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Куда пойти в Северной Калифорнии в мае
ОТДЫХ БЕРКЛИ 19, 20 мая, 10 a.m. 29-я ежегодная гималайская ярмарка – одно из самых значимых культурных мероприятий в Северной Калифорнии. Два дня концертов известных музыкантов из Гималаев и других...
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The Mystery Behind Smooth Skin: Oatmeal and Almond Oil
Spring is in the air and I am super excited. This means it’s almost bikini season (translation: start preparing for that beach perfect skin). I use this oatmeal and flaxseed...
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Swing and Miss: The Impossibility of Baseball
Ah… Spring. I, like many of you, love the spring for a host of reasons. Spring brings to mind the flowers in bloom, the warming temperatures that bring us out of our...
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In Trouble With Troubling Books
The first time my mother received a phone call home from one of my teachers was when, at five years old, I hit a classmate over the head with my...
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Дирижирует Эдо де Ваарт
В год столетия Сан-Франциско Симфони к нам зачастили звёзды, исполнители мирового класса, так или иначе связанные с этим коллективом, и лучшие американские оркестры. Памятным стало выступление замечательного дирижёра Эдо де...
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Обама закончил войну с террором и хочет дружить с исламистами
Казалось бы, такую эпохальную новость нужно было бы озвучить самому Бараку Хусейну. Но эта задача по каким-то причинам была возложена на плечи непоименованного сотрудника госдепартамента. «Война с террором кончилась», –...
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Трудно ли быть богом
После того, как о досрочных выборах в Кнессет заговорили как о деле почти что решенном, стало ясно, что они, если состоятся, пройдут 4 сентября, а избранное новым составом парламентариев правительство...
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Новости Сан-Франциско и Района Залива
Первомай в районе Залива 1 мая во многих городах Залива Сан-Франциско прошли демонстрации. Часть демонстрантов была настроена мирно, но часть специально подготовлена к столкновениям с властями и настроена крайне враждебно....
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Кобзон и оккупанты Уолл-стрит
«Наверное, это бюрократическая инерция, – предположил манхэттенский адвокат Джулиан Лоуэнфелд по поводу очередного отказа госдепартамента США выдать въездную визу российскому эстрадному певцу Иосифу Кобзону. – Они, видимо, снова исходили из...
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Culture
The new Russian film “Generation P,” based on a novel by Victor Pelevin (one of Russia’s most important contemporary writers), follows the picaresque adventures of Babilen Tatarsky through the booming world of advertising in the early years of post-Soviet Russia. Named after Babi Yar and Lenin, our hero is first seen sporting a sweet mullet and working at a Moscow kiosk run by Chechen gangsters, spending his time reading and studying the hands of his clients as a means of predicting their consumer habits. A failed poet and graduate of the Literary Institute of Moscow, Babilen begins his ascent...
The UC Berkeley Russian-speaking Student Association (RSA) is proud to announce that the Russian Culture Show will be held on Friday, April 27th, at 7:00 pm in the Magnes at 2121 Allston Way in Berkeley. This is the fourth biannual Culture Show organized by RSA. Everyone is welcome to attend: the program will showcase different aspects of Russian-speaking cultures and will include traditional and modern dance, singing, performances on a variety of instruments, as well as the rising indie rock group Kiwi Time. The performers are an exceptional group of gifted Berkeley students and talented local stars. Hors d’oeuvres, courtesy...
In the opening scenes of the new documentary about the world’s wealthiest state prisoner, German filmmaker Cyril Tuschi explains that his ambivalence concerning his subject’s character and political situation was the reason he decided to embark on this project. A dedicated socialist, Tuschi admits that he initially saw Mikhail Khodorkhovsky as the kind of ruthless philistine capitalist that his progressive parents warned him about as a child. But his curiosity was aroused by the oligarch’s decision to return to Russia and face certain imprisonment rather than live abroad in freedom like many of his colleagues. Over the course of...
I have an amazing group of friends. Now, I’m not bragging or trying to invite you to a round of “Compare the Friend.” I’m just asserting that my friends are fantastic and I am lucky to have found them because I wasn’t always surrounded by people who want the best for me. I’ve been through a minefield of friendships and lackluster acquaintances and finding these special few wasn’t quick and it certainly wasn’t easy. And I suspect that if I were to ask people to count their truly and honestly best friends, the ones who they know would do anything...
I bet I know what you’re thinking. No, I bet I know how you feel. I bet you just think the world revolves around you. And you know what? You’re right. The fact that we are each the center of our own universe is one that we often forget and unfortunately, it is this fact that leads to a lot of issues in our lives. So, let’s take a moment to get to know each other. I’ve been called many things. Some of them were true, some false, some exaggerated, kind, irrelevant, misunderstood, understated, touching, hurtful, and the list goes...
by Oleg Ivanov Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a major contemporary Russian novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter, the winner of countless international literary awards, and a recognized playwright of some note in her native Russia and much of Europe. While she has been translated into over twenty languages, only about half of her work has been translated into English, and there have been no published English translations or notable American productions of her plays. The recent publication of the English translation of her novel Daniel Stein, Interpreter – her most ambitious and highly praised book to date – may spark a...
By Oleg Ivanov Recently published in English for the first time, Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone and Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key were first released in East Germany and the Netherlands, respectively, in 1947. Among the first novels to deal with those nations’ Resistance movements, they are works of realism based on actual people and events turned to parables by the passage of time. Both focus on apolitical couples that commit small acts of independent resistance against the Nazi regime. By examining the way Fascism distorted the lives of average people, Fallada and Keilson show how some...
Super Sad True Love Story, the third novel from New York-based Russian-American writer Gary Shteyngart, is a dystopian romance set against the backdrop of America’s impending economic, political, and social collapse. A relentless satire on our nation’s cultural complacency and financial irresponsibility, Shteyngart envisions an imminent future where Secretary of Defense Rubinstein has embroiled America in a financially ruinous military quagmire in Venezuela and the ruling Bipartisan Party has allowed the nation’s spiraling national debt to place our economic fate in the hands of the Chinese People’s Capitalist Party. As in many dystopian novels, we see America’s implosion through...
Or, Why It’s Now Ok to Talk to Strangers (Just Don’t Get in Their Van) I’m not exactly what you’d call an “extrovert.” Eating alone in a restaurant is an uncomfortable scenario for me, I find small talk painful (why, yes, it is sunny today—what an interesting observation!), and forget ever seeing me go to a party by myself. So, it is after great emotional upheaval that I bring myself to say the following: life is more rewarding and exhilarating when you put aside your insecurities about leaving your comfort zone and, to borrow the wisdom of Nike, “just do...
The University of California at Berkeley is home to many Russian-speaking students. Until recently there was no well-organized place where they could meet to share their interests and socialize. Now there exists a newly formed UC Berkeley Russian Student Association (RSA) which unites two student organizations: the Russian Club, run mainly by Cal undergraduates, and the Russian-Speaking Graduate Student Society that has graduate students and professionals as its target audience. In reality, RSA is formed by a bunch of students who are passionate about sharing their culture with others, finding like-minded people and building a network of smart and talented...
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