EMOTIONAL SYMBOLS'
EXPRESSIVE IMPACT

St Petersburg's "New Symbolists" are throwing every medium of aesthetic communication they can lay their hands, hearts, minds and emotions on at the city's artistic community. Anastasia Nelyubina's "Melancholic minotaur" (above) is part of a two-day art show at Pushkinskaya 10 this weekend which aims to shake you deep to your heart and bones. Taking the symbolists ideas of last century into a more advanced stage of rebirth, the New Symbolists will use paintings, graphics, sculptures, collages, photographs, poetry, music and pantomime to bombard the senses this Saturday and Sunday.
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CULTURE & LIFESTYLE GUIDE

A composer who lived and breathed everyday tones
St Petersburg's concert halls are currently ringing with humble but profound harmony as they observe the centenary of German composer Paul Hindemith, who took American citizenship after World War II before spending his last years in Switzerland.

Exotic avante garde sights and sounds
The Art Video Exotica Festival will bring some strange noises to enliven the city's soundscape this Friday. The three-day event will be held on the premises of the mostly underground Gora Club and coincide with the opening of the venue's larger hall, which fans have been waiting for a little too long.

A new and brighter dawn for charged symbols
A two-day art show at Pushkinskaya 10 this weekend aims to shake you deep to your heart and bones. Works expressing new artistic trends, music, pantomime and the penetrating aroma of incense combine to form a conceptual and symbolistic whole.

Dostoyevsky's last flat a modern treasure trove
There's always something interesting at Dostoyevsky's Last Flat. Not only does the museum display paraphernalia related to the legendary author, and stage dramatic and cinematic productions inspired by his works, but it also features constantly changing exhibits of modern art.

Prima ballerina absoluta 70 years young
Russia's supreme exponent of dance -- prima ballerina absoluta Maya Plisetskaya -- marked half a century on the stage with swansongs at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters which would have credited a dancer half her age.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Aladdin's Cave awaits
After a hard day's Moscow sight-seeing, the Baltschug Hotel's Baltschug Buffet restaurant is a peaceful and savory haven to round off an otherwise hectic day.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Fish Fabrique: Film in English, "A Fish Called Wanda" (USA, 1979) 7pm. (5,000 R)