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Odessa’s Unique, Disappearing “Tea Factory”

It’s easy to overlook Odessa’s Kanatnaya Street. As one of the busiest and longest roads in the city — packed with food shops, cafes,...

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...

“To Be Or Not To Be?” Is Not The Only Question

Reflections on TanzLaboratorium’s experimental performance “Hamlets. Playing Theater” at the Les Kurbas National Theater Arts Center in Kyiv. A performer dances alone in silence. Periodically...

Odessa Reads Odessa: A Celebration Of The City’s Literary Heritage

  On July 12th and 13th, a celebration of Odessa’s rich literary history will revive the public reading tradition and give a long-overdue tribute to...

Interview with French Philosopher Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray is widely acknowledged to be one of France’s most prominent thinkers. A self described ‘Anarchist Hedonist’ he is an original and important...

Tracing the History Of Odessa’s Rock Movement

Is there such a phenomenon as an “Odessa sound” in post-Soviet rock n roll? In the same way there was a distinct Chicago sound...

The Easter Habits Of Bessarabia

Every spring, when the first truly sunny days come to Bessarabia, nearly every household in the region takes part in a baking and cooking...

Odessa Tales by Boris Khersonsky

One time, the Odessa intelligentsia dropped her birth certificate out of her muff. I picked it up and opened it. Written on the blank next to “mother”...

Odessa Conceptualism or “L’Enfant Terrible”

For the Odessa art world, the main event of 2015 was undoubtedly the “l’Enfant Terrible” exhibition which took place in the Kyiv National Ukrainian...
The Lure

OIFF Update: “The Lure” (2015)

Polish films have been pretty popular in the history of the Odessa International Film Festival. At the first festival, the film “Lullaby” won best...