Photographer Jill Peters has travelled to the remote mountain villages of Albania to capture the extraordinary lives of “Burnesha” – women forced to live their entire lives as men. The result is a fascinating series of portraits of some of…
Why this ex-bodyguard and hotellier-turned-football club owner is the indisputable king of fashion, on and off the sports pitch People say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but then again, those very same people say that clothes…
In an exclusive video interview, the DMZ boss tells us why dubstep is not a genre but a movement, what you can learn from working with kids and how he makes music with a hearing loss in one ear As…
‘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…
The 21-year old rising star of British R&B returns to her hometown Pristina, Kosovo for the video ‘Shyne Ya Light’ off her debut album ORA Heavily advertised even before any of her music came out, Rita Ora has been picking…
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the historical compilation of hard-to-find Roma pop classics is set for release in 2013 For the past year, British music aficionados Philip Knox and Nat Morris have been indulging in a dulcet love affair with…
What happened to the once widespread male prostitution on the Croatian coastline? Our editor Lily Lynch gets in touch with some of the boys still operating Bronzed, brawny and glistening with suntan oil, the gigolos of coastal Croatia have long…
Battlefield reporter, football lover and self-proclaimed media junkie Boštjan Videmšek speaks to Bturn about jogging in war-ridden countries, personality-building traits of three-chord punk music and connections between the Arab Spring and European austerity measures Boštjan Videmšek has been a war…
Just in time for Halloween, we watched some of the best and worst horror movies from Serbia and Yugoslavia so you wouldn’t have to. From cult 1970s vampire classics to full-frontal contemporary gorno, we submitted ourselves to a variety of…
Some of the most extraordinary Yugoslav electronic gems recently rediscovered through a bunch of existing and upcoming compilation releases in Europe and the US, take two. Read the part one here Slovenian Electric Dreams Considering the early 1980s electronica in…
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
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The Soviet erotic alphabet picture book from 1931 This precious discovery from the vaults of Stalinism sheds new light on the supposedly sexually repressive communist society of the former S...
A piece of history: Nazi propaganda posters in Serbia during World War II No Photoshop, no Illustrator, just plain ol' hand-painted Nazi advertising. Though obviously not as cool as the Soviet
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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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