There is no exciting way to start this story. Let’s just face the quarantine truth. Millions of people like me around the world are bored to their core. Yes, my shelves...
Culture, Travel & Sport
Mexico ‘86 says the blue T-shirt I am putting on. I am not a huge football fan – I know the World Cup ended about a month ago with Argentina beating West Germany...
Ştefan Kovács is one of the greatest soccer coaches who ever lived. Unfortunately, few of today’s young Romanian football fans have ever heard of him. Winner of...
The Western Balkans still haven’t forgotten their bloody and violent conflicts of the 1990s. Reconciliation, understanding, trust, and overcoming past trauma still seem...
Of all the many events cancelled as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, few will be missed more than the 65th Eurovision Song Contest, which was scheduled to take...
If you are running out of things to watch on Netflix (it can happen) then it might be worth bearing in mind that for those of us living in the Balkans there is a (fully...
Despite closing its doors due to restriction put in place to prevent the further spread of Covid-19, the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) continues to inspire and...
It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, one of Bucharest’s most eye-pleasing buildings. It has never been open to the public, has never been on the tourist trail...
The famous author Virginia Woolf once proclaimed that everyone needs a room of their own. I’d like to humbly add, everyone needs a yard of their own too. It’s precisely...
4PLUS, an Armenian collective of female photographers, is offering an intimate portrayal of daily life in the country, through beautifully curated images. Founded in...
After spending an entire year preparing for the 25th anniversary of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Vilnius IFF), organisers had less than a week to move the...
There’s just one problem with Paul Knott’s utterly fascinating and at times hilarious look back at his colourful career as a British diplomat: it comes to an end...
