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Anecdotes

*** Rabinovich has an appointment with the doctor: - Doctor! Can you diagnose me with something else? This disease is too expensive. *** The pies shop assistant in...

Jamala: The Voice Of Ukraine

Raised on jazz, soul and the traditional songs of her Crimean Tatar people. She experienced the temptations of easy fame and betrayal. She lost...
OIFF

Winners at the 2016 Odessa International Film Festival

Here are all the winners of this year's OIFF! Grand Prix Golden Duke goes to the comedy drama ‘BURN BURN BURN’ directed Chanya Button International Competition Prize...

Imparting Literary Magic Through Translation: A Conversation With Boris Dralyuk

Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as a literary translator. He holds a PhD in...

Gapa Guzhva

Val Vinokur has just published "The Essential Fictions," a newly translated collection of the works of Odessan Jewish writer Isaac Babel. This story was...

15th Koktebel Jazz Festival

On August 27 in Chernomorsk, the 15th Koktebel Jazz Festival, which has long been positioned not so much as jazz festival, but as a...

Festival Organization: Learning To Do The Impossible

A festival is typically a bright and colorful kaleidoscope affair composed numerous diverse events. For visitors, a festival should be a  pure celebration of...

Odessa’s DOCU/XIT Program Recap: Powerful Films That Need To Be Seen

Тhe festival of documentary features about human rights Docudays UA took place on March 25th this year in Kyiv. Four top-notch works of the...

Top 5 for the Weekend of September 2-4

Symphonic music concert at the Odessa Philharmonic September 1, 2 at 7pm In honor of the 222nd anniversary of the Odessa City, the Odessa National Philharmonic...

Theater On Empire’s Edge

The recently published “Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine” by Mayhill C. Fowler (University of Toronto Press, 2017) details...