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Serbia, an audio travelogue by Eastern Daze

Belgrade, photo © Irena Radinovic

Easterndaze is a project exploring the best new music from Central and Eastern Europe through a variety of channels. Their 2010 audio odyssey through Serbia was finally aired last week on London’s Resonance FM and you can now grab it

A piece of history: Nazi propaganda posters in Serbia during World War II

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No Photoshop, no Illustrator, just plain ol’ hand-painted Nazi advertising. Though obviously not as cool as the Soviet One of the issues the Nazi authorities faced with the local population during four years in occupied Belgrade (1941-1945) was how to

The men who would be Mao @Belgrade (SER)

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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

Easy Tiger Festival @Belgrade (SER)

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November 19 (22-06h) Dom Omladine, Belgrade (SER) Easy Tiger – Belgrade Festival of Modern Electronic Sound Easy Tiger Room – Main Floor: Dusan Kačarević / MARKO MILOSAVLJEVIC / DANDY JACK LIVE / STEVE RACHMAD / MARKO NASTIĆ & DEJAN MILIĆEVIĆ

How to blend in with the Serbs: no messy hair, no headgear, no skinny

If you're a guy, skinny jeans will get you nowhere.

Some obvious tips on what to wear and how to behave in order to blend in with the Serbian masses and explore your tourist destination in peace It’s very easy to spot a tourist/foreigner in Belgrade and in Serbia in

Walk on the wild side: Balkan anti-gay riots

Belgrade Gay Pride 2010. Jedi attack. Photo by blic.rs

After the riots in 2010, this year’s Belgrade Gay Pride was officially banned by the Serbian National Security Council, as a gathering of “high risk”. The Serbian police simply stated it cannot guarantee security to the participants, due to threats

Serbian guilty pleasures: who’s afraid of turbo folk?

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The notorious music culture that became synonymous with Serbia’s former nationalist regime has anything but disappeared. Turbo-folk continues to play the role of both hero and villain – as Serbia’s best known ‘brand’ and a skeleton in its closet. After