It’s been a long time coming, but 2014 finally brought Desolat label boss and worldwide DJ superstar Loco Dice to the Serbian capital. In a relaxed stroll around Belgrade, local techno heroine Tijana T got a rare insight into Dice’s…
I was first drawn to Serbia solely because I wanted to trace my family history. However, I quickly found a people, history and landscape so vibrant and nuanced that they beckoned me closer and then pulled me in so tight…
‘The wild dark Balkans might enthral orientalist romantics but that prescription was never correct, Belgrade for me is one of the best European cities, as placed and transient as any other’ ‘Belgrade…because I love it’ says the map they give…
Design Incubator NOVA ISKRA (Belgrade, Serbia) invites applicants from the area of design (22 to 35 years old), active in the domains of industrial and furniture design, interior design, architecture (with special focus on furniture design and home accessorize) to…
Another magnificent selection for Belgrade’s 7-only documentary film festival, including new work by Gary Tarn and an insight into the intimate life of Nobel laureate José Saramago The 8th edition of European Feature Documentary Film Festival – The Magnificent Seven…
Belgrade’s PART collective brings fresh air to the NYC club scene. And they got Matthew Dear to play their New Year’s Eve party “It’s been done before”, say used-to-be-clubbers and aging hipsters who spent the 90’s in techno and house…
“Beograd film”, the Serbian state-owned chain of 14 cinemas was privatized back in 2007, and since then, cinemas in Belgrade have been closed. The only ones you can find today are large multiplexes, mostly in big shopping malls. While it’s…
Two decades later, the Yugoslav monument to yesterday’s bright future has become a haven for weed-smoking teenagers and scientists conducting illegal experiments. Now the state wants to rebuild it “In two years, Silicon Hill in Zvezdara will be a reality”,…
November 17-27 at KC Grad, Belgrade (SER) Bonaventura’s acclaimed photo exhibition of Chinese actors specialised in playing the late Chairman Mao Zedong. A must see. Tommaso Bonaventura was born in Rome in 1969. His reportages have been published in the…
The owner of Svetlana Industries talks about the shady business of running an international music label from Belgrade via London, the art of slipping through borders and how to market upcoming artists from Eastern Europe I first met Toby Brundin…
The original hipsters: a piece of Yugoslav streetwear history The real hipsters started their journey in ex Yugoslavia. Welcome to 1985 Split, Croatia, the cradle of the hottest legs in the Balkans
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The real Croatian hipsters (Split 1980s) A piece of street history from Split, Croatia 1985 showing a high awareness of popular fashion of the time. Not much different from what...
Bulgarian prom day Yes, prom is that special event in your life when you celebrate the useless years you spent in high school getting drunk, cheating on ma...
Bturn throne at EXIT Festival We ran the so called vip stage at EXIT 2012 and we brought a pack of wolves to keep us busy on our throne.
