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James Blunt
England’s Pop Heartthrob Plays Kyiv
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| Take Me Out |
Getting in Touch With Women’s Day
Women’s Day, which is on 8 March, is
fast approaching, so it’s high time to lay some plans for the
celebration. Don’t forget flowers and kisses, of course, but remember,
nothing can compare to a dinner in one of Kyiv’s luxurious restaurants.
What’s On helps out all the men out there who are at a loss for where
to wine and dine their better halves.
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Bride Wars
Directed by Gary Winick
Comedy, Romance, USA 2009
Starring Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg
Emma
(Anne Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson) are best friends who have planned
every detail of their weddings since childhood. Liv, a successful
lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job
and the perfect man, won’t settle for anything less than the perfect
wedding she has dreamed of for years.
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Spicy Popstar Hopeful Wassabi
If Ukraine’s economy could run on
young female pop stars, we could all kiss the crisis goodbye.
Unfortunately that’s not the case, but at least no one can claim any
deficit of good-looking girls dancing and singing on massive
flat-screen TVs. The latest, and youngest, of the bunch to make a run
at the Ukrainian big time is Wassabi, a 16-year-old from Zaporizhya.
With the help of producer Dima Klimashenko, she hit the airwaves last
year with her first pop confection.
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| Whats Up? Britons Come Through For Ukraine’s Neediest |
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Here’s some heartwarming tidings amid the not especially cheering news of crises and general hardship this winter. Apparently thousands of destitute Ukrainian children have received hundreds of thousands of gifts thanks to generous people across the U.K., all through an appeal called Operation Christmas Child run by the charity group Samaritan’s Purse. The appeal, which has occurred every Christmas since 1990, asks givers to wrap shoeboxes full of gifts for shipment to needy children in hospitals, orphanages and street shelters across Europe and elsewhere.
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| Whats Up? Local Businesses for Sale, Cheap! |
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Ukrainian companies and business are seeing some of the most feverish selling activity in years – maybe ever – as the Ukrainian economy declines during this acute financial crisis that’s continuing to do some severe damage to most people’s new year optimism. But not all bad times are bad for everybody, and these days they’re not so bad if you’re in possession of loads of hard Western currency. Given the hryvnya’s decline over the past several months, Western currency holders have their pick of Ukrainian enterprises to buy for a relative song from native owners. Those owners prefer getting some sum of hard currency now, even if it’s
less than they would have liked to settle for, in return for relieving
themselves of the stress of watching their businesses deteriorate even
more during what are expected to be some very difficult economic
quarters here in Ukraine.
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| Whats Up? Russians Love Putin for Gas Dispute |
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Putin’s refusal to send gas through Ukraine may have ticked off everyone from Kyiv to London, and left some Southern European nations totally without supplies and thus heat in this very chilly winter. But it’s also earned him even more approval back home. So reports a Western source, citing an expert who explains, “The more they criticise Putin abroad and the more they fight with Russia, the greater his political weight grows.” A historically minded observer might note that this is the sort of distraction tactic at which Russia has always excelled (and which has always worked). Got problems at home, like, say, a devaluing ruble and shrinking economy? Pick a fight abroad, then play the innocent victim, then follow it up with a lot of tough-guy rhetoric.
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| Whats Up? Chernovetsky Plans ‘Army of Babushkas’ |
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Another week, another plan from Kyiv’s mayor, Leonid ‘Cosmos’ Chernovetsky. This time around the plan is related to one of the eccentric city head’s pet projects, cultivating local old people (it’s Chernovetsky’s ability to get out the pensioner vote by means of big promises and social spending that explains why Vitaliy Klitschko is not mayor of Kyiv right now). The mayor wants to set up what he’s calling Best House, a sort of nursing home super-facility for Kyiv’s retirees, where they’ll be able to pass their golden years in comfort, with the best-quality care. Creating such a facility, the mayor said, is “theme number one in my life.” He added, “We’re starting up this project on a mass scale.”
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| Whats Up? Mayor’s Crony’s Girl Wins Sex-Bomb Prize |
Thursday, 22 January 2009
More glory has accrued to Ukrainian womanhood, as 19-year-old Kyiv native Irina Zhuravska has won the honour of being called the Sexiest Woman Alive for the year 2008. Well, there’s a lot of women out there, but who are we to argue? This honour materialised because Zhuravska represented Ukraine at the recent Miss World pageant in Athens, and during the pageant, television viewers could SMS in their opinions about which of the girls on the screen most turned them on, so to speak. Zhuravska garnered the most votes. Right on, baby! Now if you poke around in the right precincts on the Web, you’ll find a poster, designed by the pageant organisers, depicting the lucky winner’s face under the slogans ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’ and, bafflingly, ‘The Sexy Carnival’. Ukrainian women being ogled and called ‘sexy’ by foreigners is, of course, nothing strange.
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| Editorial From the Editor (1) |
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Coming back to Ukraine from the West after the holidays felt a bit like being helicoptered back into a combat zone after leave: a sense that significant discomforts awaited me on the other side haunted me throughout the weeks I spent back home and became acute as I cabbed it back to Kennedy Airport. The Russians had turned the gas off – again. The Ukrainian economy was cratering – even more. But what can you do? I slumped onto the plane and lost consciousness and tried to forget all about it. As it turned out, waking up on this side, on one of those sunny post-snowfall winter mornings that the weather gods bestow on Kyiv once in a while, was nice. Also, the picture of life in Ukraine that you might have gotten from reading the New York papers wasn’t accurate. No, Ukrainians weren’t sitting around their ovens in their overcoats, lips turning blue in their own apartments (that was the Bulgarians). There was a backlog of gas.
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| 2008 In Review The Year As It Was |
Thursday, 25 December 2008
JANUARY
Olga Kurylenko Announced Bond Girl
Steamy Ukrainian girl Olga Kurylenko was announced the next Bond girl. Kurylenko, born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov, grew up poor in a communal flat. Vacationing in Moscow at age 13, she was spotted by a model scout on the metro (where else?). By 17 she was in Paris, and soon enough found herself on the covers of mags like Vogue. Lately she’s been parlaying her looks into a movie career (following in the steps of fellow Ukrainian Milla Jovovich, who spent her early years in Kyiv). Her role as the obligatory femme fatale in the latest Bond flick, Quantum of Solace (which came out in November), turned heads and could pave the way for a more substantial film career - and maybe some more good publicity for her home country.
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| On the Sofa with... Excel Artist Oleksiy Say |
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Oleksiy Say is a phenomenon on the Ukrainian art scene. He’s possibly the only Ukrainian artists whose art can be called truly ‘contemporary’. He’s a pioneer in his field, and what’s more, American and European collectors are highly interested in his work. What’s On thought it high time to sit down with this very talented guy, asking about his art and asking the most important question: how does he do it?
I met up with Say in his studio, a big apartment near Lviviska Square. It doesn’t look like a typical artist’s studio: there are no canvasses, no paints, no pictures.
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| Competitions What’s On: Read All Over the World (?48) |
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
It’s time for yet another installment in our drawing-to-a-close-early-next-year What’s On Read All Over the World Contest, in which our readers send us photos of Kyiv’s best magazine being, well, read all over the world. The prize? Two return tickets to anywhere you want on Ukraine International Airlines. Our entry this week is from Chris and Marika Jose, and depicts Marika reading our illustrious publication to Emma the Elephant in Indonesia. Presumably the elephant knows English, or else Marika’s translating the text into one of Indonesia’s 200 languages.
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| Kyiv Kino Bedtime Stories |
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Comedy, USA, 2008
Directed by Adam Shankman
Starring Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courtney Cox
In this new Adam Sandler flick, Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce), who raises his son and daughter on his own, has to sell his homey motel to clever Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths), who promises to make Marty’s son manager when he’s grown up and has proven himself. Nottingham pulls down the motel to raise a pricey hotel.
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James Blunt Thinks Kyiv is Beautifu
James Blunt in concert, Palace Sport (1 Sportyvna Pl.), 2 March at 19.00
James Blunt is the English folk-rock singer-songwriter who rose to fame back in 2005 with his debut album, Back to Bedlam, which featured appealing singles like You’re Beautiful. The BRIT award winner and Grammy nominee’s mellow style melds pop, rock and folk, and his rough-hewn looks tend to win over the women in the audience. Tickets will soon be on sale for this latest excellent rock-music offering from Palace Sport, of all places, which has been on a roll with its bookings for the last year or so. For more information call 246-7406.
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From Mitsubishi A Good, Standard Ride
Times have changed a little bit in
the world of automobiles here in the Mother City of the Slavs. For a
long time, easy credit and cheap petrol conspired to create a local
situation in which ‘the bigger, the better’ was the operative logic,
which means that you couldn’t walk 10 metres in the city without
bumping into a massive brand-new night-coloured SUV. (Or it bumping
into you.) But with Ukraine feeling the squeeze of the financial
crisis, that’s all over for the moment, and it might be time for
Ukrainians to start taking to smaller cars. The new Mitsubishi Lancer X
Sportback is precisely one of those cars. We took it out for a test
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