Serbia, an audio travelogue by Eastern Daze
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
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)
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)
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
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
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?
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…