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CULTURE & LIFESTYLE GUIDE

Rocking the old year away
Hot from their Moscow tour, Russia's leading group Aquarium will play their Christmas concert on Tuesday.

New Year's festivities planned for the city
At a loss for something to do during the holidays? KIT VLADMIROV checked out some of the city's celebration plans.

City gets its own crooner
By day he is a member of St Petersburg's expatriate business community, but by night its local answer to Frank Sinatra...

It's a bewitching kind of theater
When a witch takes to the stage you can be sure that audiences are going to be spellbound. ALI NASSOR met the witch behind the NYMPH Magic Theater.

Christmas: `Tis the season to be... fortune-telling
Russian villages have always been centers of fortune-telling. Even today many villagers -- and more city dwellers than would admit -- believe that it is possible to predict by gazing into the face, or divine the name of a future fiance, to predict a marriage, disease or even death...

Berlin:
back to the future in the city of change

WHAT'S ON GUIDE

Petersburg Gig Guide

Rock & Jazz Venues

Classical Program

Dramatic Program

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Rose to the occasion When you hear the word "pub," you might think of a dark, cozy, wood-beamed little room with dark beer on tap and plain but hearty food. The Rose Pub, while not small and dark, is cozy and has plenty of beer -- as well as other drinks -- and the food is pub standard.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27
Fish Fabrique Club (10 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa, Apt. 15, 4th floor).
Film in English. Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (UK, 1980). 7 pm. (5,000 - 10.000 R)