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Interview with Ukrainian Film Actress Kateryna Molchanova
Since she first appeared in the 2013 cult hit “My Mermaid, My Lorelei” under the legendary Georgian director Nana Jorjadze, Kateryna Molchanova has quickly...
On Laurence Oliphant: The Most Interesting and Banal Travel Writer of All Time
I invite you, dear reader, to try out the following anthropological experiment the next time you are on a transcontinental flight: wander about the...
Twilight Of The Gods, Or, The Last Role Of Vera Kholodnaya
The early black and white film star’s tragic early death remains a major historical mystery. Can a new documentary film about the shadowy events...
Making Modernism: Tracking The Burliuk Family In Odessa
The Burliuk brothers are known as exemplars of high modernism, but the story of the rest of the talented family is less known. This...
On Finding Babel: An Interview With David Novack
The American documentary film maker David Novack has been coming to Odessa for more than twenty years in connection with his interest in the...
April 21-22 at 7pm – Hobart Earle and the Odessa Philharmonic
It is Prokofiev's 125th birthday this week - so the Odessa Philharmonic will be performing his wonderful "Scythian Suite" under the capable baton...
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”...
The Modern Music Scene In Odessa
The Odessa Rock music scene is as healthy and diverse as it has ever been, but the problems facing it are formidable as well.
Despite...
Leonid Utesov: Was He Really Playing Jazz?
Leonid Utesov is Considered by Many to be Greatest Singer of his Generation, the ‘Soviet Sinatra’’. While he Considered Himself to be a Proponent...
In Search Of Mykola Bazhan’s Legacy On The Eve Of Commemorations Of Babyn Yar
Mykola Platonovich Bazhan (1904-1983) was one of the greatest Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. He cemented his literary reputation in the 1920’s as...
