Human amphibians and a dark, anti-socialist vision
The human amphibian was one of Alexander Belyayev's more
outlandish fantasies which has not yet metamorphosized into being, but the
"father of Russian science fiction" made a number of other forecasts about the
future which were not so far off the mark.
Youthful vigor finding its own way into the musical future
The past 50 years have seen (and listened to) a chain of touchy counter-proposals of musical aesthetics, which in the '60s prompted American composer Charles Wuorinen to remark, "How can there be a musical avant-garde, when the revolution before last said `Anything Goes'?"
Petersburg Wild West saloon reels and rocks
Money Honey, probably Russia's only "cowboy" style saloon, is located in an unlikely place, the Apraksin Dvor market. Here, Russian small market business meets with the country and western and rockabilly styles of the American West. The Wild West and Wild Russia...
RESTAURANT REVIEW: A bland French kiss
Dining at Le Bistro Francais turned out to be a rather fractured experience. Our excitement at the prospect of dining at a French restaurant had perhapsraised our expectations too high, but we were left one part bemused, one part disappointed and three parts satiated.
