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American Pre-Election Party with The Odessa Review & Central Bar

The Odessa Review would like to thank all partners and guests who honored us with their company at the American Pre-election Party at Central...

A Green Theater For The 21st Century

Shevchenko Park’s Green Theater is the first and only open-air amphitheater in Odessa. Since the 1930s, it has been setting new standards for the...

Fashion Designer Masha Reva Returns To Making Art

The Odessa-born artist and fashion designer bears the famous last name of her father, the accomplished architect and sculptor Mikhail Reva. However, her breakout...

A Painter In The Kitchen

Aleksander Yourz, the chef of Odessa’s Bernardazzi restaurant, is bringing painting to his kitchen and creating a new culinary style known as “Gastropunk". A...
Bessarabian

Taste of Bessarabia

The Bessarabia region is home to various different kinds of local cuisine created at the intersection of various different cultures in this region that...

MARA Concept Beauty Salons Celebrate First Anniversary

Odessa’s MARA Concept Beauty Salon network is celebrating its first anniversary this spring. MARAMAX Group opened the first two salons of its new series...
Odessa Football

How Odessa Brought Football to the Tsarist Empire

Ever since Tsarist times, Odessa has been famed as a capital of comedy, commerce, criminality and cosmopolitanism, but it is also the place where...

A Trip To Historical Kharkiv

My husband and I had planned to travel to Kharkiv for a long time, but somehow it never seemed to work out. From the...

Inside Look At The Eventfull Days Of 2017 GOGOLFEST

The 10th anniversary multidisciplinary contemporary art festival GOGOLFEST 2017 Ark was taking place in Kiev in this September. The festival lasted until 17 September....

Ukrainian Fashion Bonanza Dispatch #6: Sunglasses and More Glitter

This is the sixth in a series of fashion show dispatches by Maria Romanenko and the fourth from Ukrainian Fashion Week, which began on...