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CULTURE & LIFESTYLE GUIDE

Yesterday's cult heroes search for a new mysticism
Mayor Anatoly Sobchak's attendance of the opening of Alexander and Olga Florensky's exhibition last week finally confirmed Mitki as part of the establishment. But Mitki are not as tightly-knit now as they used to be.

Busy abstract scenes and calm faces
Rare is the artist who can paint, draw and sculpt. Rarer still is the artist who can do all three in a variety of styles -- and pull it off. South African Marion Mullinder, wife of South African Consul General Louis Mullinder, is exhibiting about 60 of her works in all these media and others at the Russian Museum for three weeks in December.

Mystery and terror
St Petersburg has already seen four exhibitions by Ilya Glazunov, but in communist times two of them were shut before they even opened. "Mystery of the 20th Century," which Glazunov created in the 1980s, blames communist leaders for the bloody terror going on in Russia and was an open challenge against the regime.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Succulent steak slabs
You come from Nebraska, you grow up with beef. Steak for Christmas, filets for birthdays, hamburgers on the grill once a week. You come to St Petersburg, and after a few months you start craving a big ol' slab of meat -- on the hoof, maybe still mooing...

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. Fish Fabrique: Film "Blues Brothers" (USA, 1979). 7pm. (5.000 R)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6. Fish Fabrique: Film "A Fish Called Wanda." 7pm. (5,000 R)