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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2012
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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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2012
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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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Travel
The first time I went to Europe, like most tourists, I took pictures; only I did so with the zeal of a foreign spy. I would even try to act nonchalant and snap pictures without looking because, goodness, I’m not a tourist or anything. There was no quirky building unnoticed by my lens and no end for my desire to make this experience last as long as possible. And judging by all the photos of trips people upload to Facebook alone, I think it’s a common sentiment. The saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” But what if...
I write a lot about the importance of having an authentic travel experience and now I’d like to suggest the type of travel that makes it possible. Everyone is familiar with the cliché “backpacking through Europe” scenario, but I’d like to recommend an alternative that has just as many rewards and less headaches. I like to call it “nesting.” The idea is that instead of going from place to place and remaining nomadic through the duration of your travels, you decide on a “home base,” a city with easy access to travel, where you rent an apartment or hotel....
By Tatiana Sundeyeva When I travel, I go to great lengths to hide my identity as a tourist because I’ve learned that, besides the obvious dangers of getting ripped off in a taxi, getting mugged in the park, or just drawing unwanted attention to yourself, you risk another unpleasant reality: having an inauthentic experience. Even if you go out of your way to places where fellow tourists seldom set foot, the sheer fact of looking like a tourist will get you treated like one. And I’ve been spoken to condescendingly or rudely enough times to know that for the...
By Tatiana Sundeyeva There’s more to travel than jet lag and fanny packs. A truly unforgettable journey requires an emotional connection to the place and a sense of curiosity. Enter literature. Since you’re likely to bring a book (or magazine) with you anyway, if only to kill time during a long flight, why not choose something with literary value rather than whatever lusty romance novel is on sale at the grocery store? The right book could add unexpected depth and change your excursion from “trip” to “experience.” Traveling without context is like music without pitch: boring. Every landmark seems like...
Lessons From Experience I was eating empanadas in an Argentine restaurant in Italy with my Belorussian friend when a Mongolian woman came in to order tea, calling it “chai,” and the Spanish-speaking woman behind the counter understood what she wanted, having encountered many Russian-speakers in that corner of Italy. At that instant I thought, “Ah, sweet Globalization!” and took a moment to contemplate the importance of knowing other languages in this global society. While you won’t see me teaching languages anytime soon, I have had the good fortune to be able to study several of them in many different settings...
In search of a new city to meet and befriend, I thought, with practicality in mind, of a beautiful “European” city, renowned for its culture and history that was still affordable for the exchange rate of the dollar. It was a destination unlike any that I had visited before and so, completely unsure of what to expect, I flew to Buenos Aires, the Paris of South America. On this one-month adventure, I dusted off my Spanish dictionary and hoped that my knowledge of Italian would suffice. We arrived on a cold fall day after fifteen hours of flight completely incredulous...
Delightfully enjoying a cold gelato on a hot late afternoon in a seaside town on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, it hit me: “What am I still doing living in San Francisco?” One international phone call and ten minutes of laughter from the other side later, I hang up with my mother—my newly conceived dreams of moving to Italy and opening a gelato store were shattered. Nevertheless, one cannot remain gloomy for long in such lively circumstances. But let me start from the beginning and explain to you just how I managed to find myself in Paradise. One fine...
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