www.kyivpost.com: Lifestyle http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/ Lifestyle Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122284/ News Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:32:19 +0200
"There were no obvious signs of any criminal intent," Rosen said.

Houston's publicist, Kristen Foster, said the cause of death was unknown.

Rosen said police received an emergency call from hotel security about Houston at 3:43 p.m. Saturday. Paramedics who were already at the hotel because of a Grammy party were not able to resuscitate her, he said.

Houston's death came on the eve of music's biggest night — the Grammy Awards. It's a showcase where she once reigned, and where she will be remembered Sunday in a tribute by Jennifer Hudson, organizers said.

Her longtime mentor Clive Davis went ahead with his annual concert at the same hotel where her body was found. He dedicated the evening to her and asked for a moment of silence as a photo of the singer, hands wide open, looking to the sky, appeared on the screen.

Houston was supposed to appear at the gala, and Davis had told The Associated Press that she would perhaps perform: "It's her favorite night of the year ... (so) who knows by the end of the evening," he had said.

Houston had been at rehearsals for the show Thursday, coaching singers Brandy and Monica, according to a person who was at the event but was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The person said Houston looked disheveled, was sweating profusely and liquor and cigarettes could be smelled on her breath.

Two days ago, she performed at a pre-Grammy party with singer Kelly Price. Singer Kenny Lattimore hosted the event, and said Houston sang the gospel classic "Jesus Loves Me" with Price, her voice registering softly, not with the same power it had at its height.


Lattimore said Houston was gregarious and was in a good mood, surrounded by friends and family, including daughter Bobbi Kristina.

"She just seemed like she was having a great night that night," said Lattimore, who said he was in shock over her death.

Aretha Franklin, her godmother, also said she was stunned.

"I just can't talk about it now," Franklin said in a short statement. "It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen."

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he would call for a national prayer Sunday morning during a service at Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

"The morning of the Grammys, the world should pause and pray for the memory of a gifted songbird," Sharpton said in a statement.

In a statement, Recording Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow said Houston "was one of the world's greatest pop singers of all time who leaves behind a robust musical soundtrack spanning the past three decades."

At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful and peerless vocals rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.

Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like "The Bodyguard" and "Waiting to Exhale."

She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.


She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.

But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanor and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once-pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.

"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy," Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Brown by her side.

It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone.

She seemed to be born into greatness. In addition to being Franklin's goddaughter, she was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston and the cousin of 1960s pop diva Dionne Warwick.

Houston first started singing in the church as a child. In her teens, she sang backup for Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson and others, in addition to modeling. It was around that time that music mogul Clive Davis first heard Houston perform.

"The time that I first saw her singing in her mother's act in a club ... it was such a stunning impact," Davis told "Good Morning America."

"To hear this young girl breathe such fire into this song. I mean, it really sent the proverbial tingles up my spine," he added.


Before long, the rest of the country would feel it, too. Houston made her album debut in 1985 with "Whitney Houston," which sold millions and spawned hit after hit. "Saving All My Love for You" brought her her first Grammy, for best female pop vocal. "How Will I Know," ''You Give Good Love" and "The Greatest Love of All" also became hit singles.

Another multiplatinum album, "Whitney," came out in 1987 and included hits like "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."

The New York Times wrote that Houston "possesses one of her generation's most powerful gospel-trained voices, but she eschews many of the churchier mannerisms of her forerunners. She uses ornamental gospel phrasing only sparingly, and instead of projecting an earthy, tearful vulnerability, communicates cool self-assurance and strength, building pop ballads to majestic, sustained peaks of intensity."

Her decision not to follow the more soulful inflections of singers like Franklin drew criticism by some who saw her as playing down her black roots to go pop and reach white audiences. The criticism would become a constant refrain through much of her career. She was even booed during the "Soul Train Awards" in 1989.

"Sometimes it gets down to that, you know?" she told Katie Couric in 1996. "You're not black enough for them. I don't know. You're not R&B enough. You're very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them."

Some saw her 1992 marriage to former New Edition member and soul crooner Bobby Brown as an attempt to refute those critics. It seemed to be an odd union; she was seen as pop's pure princess while he had a bad-boy image and already had children of his own. (The couple only had one daughter, Bobbi Kristina, born in 1993.) Over the years, he would be arrested several times, on charges ranging from DUI to failure to pay child support.


But Houston said their true personalities were not as far apart as people may have believed.

"When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically come from the same place," she told Rolling Stone in 1993. "You see somebody, and you deal with their image, that's their image. It's part of them, it's not the whole picture. I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody's angel. I can get down and dirty. I can get raunchy."

Brown was getting ready to perform at a New Edition reunion tour in Southaven, Mississippi, as news spread about Houston's death. The group went ahead with its performance, though Brown appeared overcome with emotion when his voice cracked at the beginning of a ballad and he left the stage.

Before his departure, he told the sell-out crowd: "First of all, I want to tell you that I love you all. Second, I would like to say, I love you Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage."

Brown said he decided to perform because fans had shown their loyalty to the group for more than 25 years. During an intermission, one of Houston's early hits, "You Give Good Love," played over the speakers. Fans stood up and began singing along.

It would take several years for the public to see the "down and dirty" side of Houston. Her moving 1991 rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, amid the first Gulf War, set a new standard and once again reaffirmed her as America's sweetheart.

In 1992, she became a star in the acting world with "The Bodyguard." Despite mixed reviews, the story of a singer (Houston) guarded by a former Secret Service agent (Kevin Costner) was an international success.


It also gave her perhaps her most memorable hit: a searing, stunning rendition of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," which sat atop the charts for weeks. It was Grammy's record of the year and best female pop vocal, and the "Bodyguard" soundtrack was named album of the year.

She returned to the big screen in 1995-96 with "Waiting to Exhale" and "The Preacher's Wife." Both spawned soundtrack albums, and another hit studio album, "My Love Is Your Love," in 1998, brought her a Grammy for best female R&B vocal for the cut "It's Not Right But It's Okay."

But during these career and personal highs, Houston was using drugs. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, she said by the time "The Preacher's Wife" was released, "(doing drugs) was an everyday thing. ... I would do my work, but after I did my work, for a whole year or two, it was every day. ... I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself."

In the interview, Houston blamed her rocky marriage to Brown, which included a charge of domestic abuse against Brown in 1993. They divorced in 2007.

Houston would go to rehab twice before she would declare herself drug-free to Winfrey in 2009. But in the interim, there were missed concert dates, a stop at an airport due to drugs, and public meltdowns.

She was so startlingly thin during a 2001 Michael Jackson tribute concert that rumors spread she had died the next day. Her crude behavior and jittery appearance on Brown's reality show, "Being Bobby Brown," was an example of her sad decline. Her Sawyer interview, where she declared "crack is whack," was often parodied. She dropped out of the spotlight for a few years.

Houston staged what seemed to be a successful comeback with the 2009 album "I Look To You." The album debuted on the top of the charts, and would eventually go platinum.

Things soon fell apart. A concert to promote the album on "Good Morning America" went awry as Houston's voice sounded ragged and off-key. She blamed an interview with Winfrey for straining her voice.


A world tour launched overseas, however, only confirmed suspicions that Houston had lost her treasured gift, as she failed to hit notes and left many fans unimpressed; some walked out. Canceled concert dates raised speculation that she may have been abusing drugs, but she denied those claims and said she was in great shape, blaming illness for cancellations.

Houston was to make her return to film in the remake of the classic movie "Sparkle." Filming on the movie, which stars former "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks, recently wrapped.]]> Barbie's wardrobe celebrated at Fashion Week bash http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122282/ News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:43:55 +0200 Guests mingled alongside a wall of pink-heeled pumps or stood before large computer screens to virtually rummage through the 53-year-old icon's wardrobe, from career to couture. The technology produced parting gifts of photos for her New York Fashion Week friends to preserve their Barbie moments.


The dream closet tech was a demonstration of what kids can do at home on their own computers if they visit BarbieWow.com and have webcams.

"Everything's awesome. I picked a pink dress. I have it at home," said 7-year-old Amiri Small, who attended the packed party with her dad and 11-year-old sister, Leila.

Dad was clearly enjoying the dad points he racked up for making it past Barbie's sparkly pink door rope and onto her pink carpet.

There were plenty of Barbie moments to go around among the crowd.

Steven Stolman, president of the home decor and accessories line Scalamandre, is known more for his signature zebra prints than the Barbie he was asked to style as a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America several years ago. He chose a little black number.

"We tracked it down in a Target in Milwaukee," said Stolman, whose two older sisters were Barbie fans growing up.

Among girls growing up with Barbie, who didn't spend at least some time during the impressionable years styling or dyeing the doll's hair? But what did Stolman do?

What brothers are supposed to, of course: "I used to pull Barbie's head off."


Stephanie Cota, Barbie's senior vice president of marketing, has been rolling out her gal at Fashion Week for several years. There was a runway show in 2009 for the doll's 50th anniversary, featuring outfits by 50 designers who included Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg and Calvin Klein.

"What better way to celebrate a fashion icon than here at Fashion Week," Cota said.]]> Canadian Jeff Wall and Brit Gary Hume amuse at Pinchuk Art Center http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122272/ News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:38:44 +0200
Personal exhibitions of both masters started in Pinchuk Art Center on Feb. 4, and will run through April 1.

If you are like most people, you probably feel baffled by the abstract shapes, random lines and nebulous objects dubbed as art. But artist Gary Hume promises revelations for those who put forth an effort.

Hume remarked that he wished that every visitor would wear lead shoes before entering his show, so that they would be forced to linger in front

of his paintings and ponder introspectively. Instead of revealing the meaning of his paintings, he entrusts the viewer with freedom to experience his art with pure emotion, which is not difficult given the arresting nature of candy-colored paintings.

The inspiration for Hume’s work are doors, particularly hospital doors and has created life-size versions of doors in all colors and shapes. One of them, entitled A Couple, involves two shiny aluminum strips with two green circles. Having trouble deciphering a couple here? Hume offers help solving the mystery: it’s an old couple who met at the hospital and despite sicknessea and age have a pleasant conversation.

Another artwork inculdes multi-colored fragments of a rainbow jumping out of white walls. Don’t look too hard for a message; Hume claims the pieces of the broken rainbow are meant to simply be looked at.

Hume is also bold enough to put a large aluminum circled covered with black glossy paint entitled “The Whole”, explaining that it encompasses the entirety of the universe. Why paint elaborate paintings he asks? It’s has all been done before.

In a work representing Osama Bin Laden’s death, Hume stretched his conceptual boundaries painting green surface with colorful balloons and a brown rectangle in the corner. With no sign of a terrorist the work became Anxiety and Horse. Right next to it, the president is represented by rich blue with two black dots and one white.

In the pastel-colored series American Tan, Hume exposes the invisible imperfections of sports cheerleaders, admired as models of beauty and fitness in the US. But instead of taut bodies and blond hair there is a sculpture of a leg fragment, bent unnaturally with a pompom on the end.

Hume’s cheerful colors sometimes clash with faceless figures, fragments and distortions of the human body implying that even seemingly perfect people, relationships, and feelings have flaws, but are often masked by superficial beauty.

Jeff Wall

Unlike a National Geographic photographer , who waits for a perfect moment to shoot his photograph, 65 year old Jeff Wall artificially creates the setting selecting every detail, prop and planning his composition in advance. His photographic tableaux, as he calls them, reflect the slice of his Vancouver society, Wall follows classical rules of composition.

Instead of Greek and Roman heroes in imperial settings, ordinary modern Canadians appear siphoning fuel and dancing in sports gyms. Some compositions stunningly resemble some classical masterpieces.

A photo called Boxing, of two teenagers boxing within a pristine modern interior , is awfully similar to Jacques Louis David’s Oath of Horatii, and position of people on the grass in Tatoos and Shadows allude to Manet’s Dejeuner sur L’Herbe.

When Wall saw illuminated ads against light boxes around Europe, he decided to mold his photo transparencies over the boxes, making his kind of photo even more similar to a bulky tableau. Six of those are displayed at the Pinchuk center.

Wall is fascinating because he reveals quirky pockets in his society, so foreign and even repelling to us. In the vast-scaled Band and Crowd dorky nerds and hipsters with beer are spaced in the gym hall frozen in awkward moves to the local band rocking out on guitars. Often these pathetic scenes make you cringe but also provide the voyeuristic pleasure of stealing a secret peek behind the curtains of a troubled community.

Wall examines the themes of maturity and pubescence marking adulthood with the photo “Pawnshop” where a middle-class musician makes the painful sacrifice of giving away his guitar.

Wall’s forte, without doubt, is zooming in crisply and precisely at mundane scenes and objects imbued with issues moving and pertinent universally.

Undoubtedly, both exhibitions are worth visiting — even just to see that modern art does not have to be repulsive. Wall's photos will be easier to comprehend. They open up a world that many Ukrainians would find intriguing. Hume's masterpieces will be well received by those with a vivid imagination.

Pinchuk Art Center

1/3-2, Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna vul.,

tel.: 590-08-58

Open Tuesday through Sunday from12:00until9 p.m

Admission is free.ore details on http://pinchukartcentre.org/

Kyiv Post Staff Writer Maria Manzhos can be reached atmanzhos@kyivpost.com
]]> Jolie: nervous, excited about premiere in Bosnia http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122271/ News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:27:34 +0200
Already released in the U.S., Jolie's directorial debut is a drama about a Serb soldier who finds his ex-lover, a Muslim Bosnian woman, among sex slaves in a camp.

Jolie said of the Bosnian premiere: "I'm nervous and I'm excited ... I'll probably cry through the entire thing."

She added: "I'll be very, very moved because, of course, a lot of the people coming are the victims of war so it's going to be heavy."]]> Blatter: Football is a victim of own popularity http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122261/ News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:35 +0200
"(Match-fixing) is not a regional phenomenon. This has to be stopped," Blatter said. "We will talk about it at our FIFA Congress (in May)."

Blatter said the head of the international police organization, Interpol, would attend the congress in Budapest, Hungary, as the world football body continues to struggle to get to grips with match-fixing.

Earlier this week, the South African Football Association convinced FIFA to give priority to investigating allegations that international matches in the country leading up to the last World Cup in 2010 were fixed.

Africa's reputation is already battered by a scandal in neighboring Zimbabwe, where more than 80 players have been suspended for alleged involvement in match-fixing. The Zimbabwe Football Association's former chief executive is facing corruption charges and is accused of masterminding the fixing of games involving the national team, where Zimbabwean players and officials are accused of being paid to lose.

But despite the sport's recently tarnished image, with Blatter's own organization involved in a string of corruption scandals, the FIFA president insisted "football is faring well."

Blatter pointed out FIFA had more members than the United Nations, adding "and I am still here."

Blatter was in Gabon to attend the annual CAF meeting as well as the African Cup of Nations final between Ivory Coast and Zambia on Sunday at Libreville's Stade de l'Amitie.

Alongside Blatter, CAF president Issa Hayatou praised co-hosts Gabon and Equatorial for their organization of Africa's top tournament and says the continental body is "satisfied."

Hayatou shrugged off concerns over near-deserted stadiums for some matches not involving the home teams. The quarterfinal between Zambia and Sudan was particularly embarrassing with only a handful of fans turning up at the 37,000-seat Estadio de Bata in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, for a last-eight game at the continent's premier competition.

Organizers gave away free tickets for the semifinals, but with both co-hosts already eliminated the stadiums were still only half full — at best.

"We would like the stadiums to be full but we do not have any power to get people out of their homes," Hayatou said.

Hayatou also responded to criticism that Africa's confederation had done little to help the victims of the Port Said stadium riot in Egypt in which more than 70 people died.

"Do you think a tragedy like that can leave us indifferent?" Hayatou said.

Blatter reiterated that FIFA had requested a report from the Egyptian Football Association following the disaster in which people were stabbed and crushed to death when fans rushed onto the field following a league game.]]> Designer Roberto Cavalli trades pleats for tweets http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122247/ News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:27:31 +0200
The Italian designer with a penchant for animal prints also blogs about his daily happenings and includes photos of his travels and beloved German shepherd puppy, Lupo.

"I discovered new way to make blog because I want to make my blog like a reality show," he said in a recent interview.

Every post ends with "I love you," and he does indeed seem to love his followers. In a recent video blog, he sits casually in front of his computer praising every person who has left him a comment or question.

Now Cavalli is employing his newfound army of online fans to help spread the word about his latest creation — the Roberto Cavalli fragrance.

"For us it was important it was sexy, it was feline, it was romantic, and strong in the same way," said Cavalli's wife and business partner, Eva, of their perfume collaboration with Coty.

Though Cavalli is embracing new technology, he acknowledges that it has its limitations.

"Twitter is too short. It's too short. I'm Italian. I like to speak," he said.]]> List of World Press Photo winners http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122244/ News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:48:27 +0200 PHOTO OF THE YEAR, 2011: Samuel Aranda, Spain, for The New York Times, A woman holds a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh, Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 15.

SPOT NEWS SINGLES — 1. Yuri Kozyrev, Russia, Noor Images for Time, Rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 11; 2. Massoud Hossaini, Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, Explosion during religious ceremony, Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 5; 3. Li Yang, China, for China Daily, Rescue of a girl attempting suicide, Changchun, Jilin province, China, May 17; Honorable mention. Salil Bera, India, The Week, A leopard attacks, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

SPOT NEWS STORIES — 1. Koichiro Tezuka, Japan, Mainichi Shimbun, Tsunami strikes Natori City, Japan, March 11; 2. Niclas Hammerstrom, Sweden, for Aftonbladet, Utoya, Norway, July 22; 3. Eduardo Castaldo, Italy, Dawn of a revolution, Cairo, Egypt, January-February.

GENERAL NEWS SINGLES — 1. Alex Majoli, Italy, Magnum Photos for Newsweek, Protestors at Tahrir Square react to president Mubarak's announcement not to step down, Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 10; 2. Lars Lindqvist, Sweden, Dagens Nyheter, On the pier of Ishinomaki port, Japan, April 15; 3. Toshiyuki Tsunenari, Japan, Asahi Shimbun, Woman cries amid the ruins of Natori City, Japan, March 13.


JAPAN, Higashimatsushima : (FILES) A file photo taken on April 3, 2011 shows tsunami survivor Chieko Matsukawa holding her daughter's graduation certificate that she found in debris in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. Japanese Agence France-Presse photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba won on February 10, 2012 the first prize in the News Stories category of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. (AFP)

GENERAL NEWS STORIES — 1. Remi Ochlik, France, IP3 Press, Battle for Libya; 2. Paolo Pellegrina, Italy, Magnum Photos for Zeit Magazine, Tsunami aftermath, Japan, April; 3. David Guttenfelder, USA, The Associated Press for National Geographic magazine, Japan's nuclear refugees, April-November.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS SINGLES — 1. Samuel Aranda, Spain, for The New York Times, A woman holds a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh, Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 15; 2. Tomasz Lazar, Poland, Arrest of protesters in Harlem, New York City, during a demonstration against police tactics and income inequality. New York, USA, Oct. 25; 3. Mohammed al-Law, Egypt, The Associated Press, Former Egyptian president Mubarak arrives for his trial, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 7.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS STORIES — 1. Yasuyoshi Chiba, Japan, Agence France-Presse, Aftermath of the tsunami, Japan, March-April; 2. John Moore, USA, Getty Images, Evicted, Colorado, USA; 3. Jan Dago, Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, The fight for Tahrir Square, Cairo, Feb. 1-6.


SPORTS SINGLES — 1. Donald Miralle, Jr., USA, Mass swim start at the Ironman World Championships, Kailua Bay, Hawaii, USA; 2. Ray McManus, Ireland, Sportsfile, Scrum half, Old Belvedere vs. Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland; 3. Henrik Brunnsgård, Sweden, Base jumper Johannes Dagemark takes off of a wind turbine, Skara, Sweden.

SPORTS STORIES — 1. Alexander Taran, Russia, 'Strelka,' street fighting tournament, St. Petersburg, Russia; 2. Adam Pretty, Australia, Getty Images, World Swimming Championships, Shanghai, China; 3. Tomasz Gudzowaty, Poland, Yours Gallery/Agentur Focus, Lucha libre at La Loba, Mexico City.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES SINGLES — 1. Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Images for Kiev Independent, Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine; 2. Ilvy Njiokiktjien, The Netherlands, 'Kolonel' Jooste trains white Afrikaners at a youth camp, Carolina, South Africa; 3. Simona Ghizzoni, Italy, Contrasto, Jamila, 40, injured during Operation Cast Lead, Gaza Strip; Honorable mention. Shaofeng Xu, China, ChuTian Metropolis Daily, Man climbs up a high voltage electricity tower, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, Nov. 22.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES STORIES — 1. Stephanie Sinclair, USA, VII Photo Agency for National Geographic magazine, Child brides: Too young to wed; 2. Ebrahim Noroozi, Iran, Jamejam Online, Public executions by hanging, Iran; 3. Perdo Pardo, Mexico, Agence France-Presse, Drug cartel wars, Acapulco, Mexico.

DAILY LIFE SINGLES — 1. Damir Sagolj, Bosnia, Reuters, Picture of North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung on a wall in Pyongyang, Oct. 5; 2. Johnny Haglund, Norway, Vi Menn, Girls catch fish in the Congo river; 3. Paolo Woods, The Netherlands, Radio presenter sister Melianise Gabreus, Les Cayes, Haiti.

DAILY LIFE STORIES — 1. Alejandro Kirchuk, Argentina, Never Let You Go; 2. Pietro Paolini, Italy, TerraProject, Bolivianas; 3. Alexander Gronsky, Russia, Photographer.ru, Pastoral, Moscow; Honorable mention. Darcy Padilla, US, Redux Pictures, Jason & Elyssa, 2011.

PORTRAITS SINGLES — 1. Laerke Posselt, Denmark, Iranian-born Danish actress Mellica Mehraban; 2. Guillaume Herbaut, France, Institute for Artist Management for Stiletto, Femen activist Inna Shevchenko, Ukraine; 3. Denis Rouvre, France, Toku Konno, tsunami survivor, Sendai, Japan.


AFGHANISTAN, Kabul : (FILES) A file photo taken on December 5, 2011 shows an Afghan Shia Muslim crying near dead and injured after explosions during a religious ceremony in the center of Kabul. Afghan Agence France-Presse photographer Massoud Hossaini won on February 10, 2012 the second prize of the Spot News Singles category of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. (AFP)

PORTRAITS STORIES — 1. Donald Weber, Canada, VII Photo Agency, Interrogation room, Ukraine; 2. Ton Koene, The Netherlands, Recruits at police training center, Kunduz, Afghanistan; 3. Simon Norfolk and John Burke, Britain, Burke + Norfolk, Afghanistan, 19th and 21st century.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SINGLES — 1. David Goldman, USA, The Associated Press, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue plays the drums at a Canadian base, Kandahar, Afghanistan. 2. Vincent Boisot, France, Riva Press for Le Figaro Magazine, Dakar fashion week, model poses in Yolande Mancini's design, Senegal; 3. Pavel Prokopchik, The Netherlands, Local shaman performs ritual, Ungurtas, Kazakhstan.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT STORIES — 1. Rob Hornstra, The Netherlands, The Sochi Project: Sochi Singers; 2. Emiliano Larizza, Italy, Contrasto, Saut-d'Eau Pilgrimage, Haiti. 3. Huimin Kuang, China, Huang Jianglu newspaper, The Return of the Native, Mao Zedong remembered.

NATURE SINGLES — 1. Jenny E. Ross, USA, Polar bear attempts to feed on sea birds' eggs, Novaya Zemlya, Russia; 2. Joan Costa, Spain, for Malaspina Expedition, Specimen of a heteropoda, Pacific Ocean; 3. Francesco Zizola, Italy, Noor Images, Tuna fish in the Tonnara, off Carloforte Island, Sardinia, Italy.

NATURE STORIES — 1. Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic magazine, Rhino wars; 2. Carsten Peter, Germany, National Geographic magazine, Hang Ken, infinite cave, Vietnam; 3. Paul Hilton, Britain, EPA for Pew, Shark fin.



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]]> Beauty, Gary Hume, contemporary art, Pinchuk Art Center, , 1/3-2, “A” Block, Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna St., 590-08-58, pinchukartcentre.org/en/, through Apr 1, free admission.










In light, black, colour, white, and dark, Jeff Wall, Pinchuk ArtCenter, 1/3-2, “A” Block, Velyka Vasylkivska/Baseyna St., 590-08-58, through Apr 1, free







Heaven inhabitants. Divinities of Chinese Pantheon, Chinese Classical Art, Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 15-17 Tereshchenkivska St., 235-32-90, through May 10, Hr 13-40

100-year anniversary exhibition of Segiy Shyshko, oil paintings, National Art Museum of Ukraine, 6 Hrushevskogo St., 278-13-57, namu.kiev.ua/en., through April 4, Hr 5-20







Simulator of Snowiness, Igor Gusev, contemporary art, M-17 art center , 104 Gorkogo St., 596-20-30, m17.com.ua/ru, through Feb 29, free admission








Reactivation, various artists, digital and print photography, Minus 4, 37-41 Sichovyh Striltsiv (Artema) St., 067-770-07-57, through March 2, free

Pertinent Connections, art on fabric, Mironova Gallery, 6 Olginska St., 277- 88-88, through Feb. 15, www.mironova-gallery.com, free admission







Paradzhanov. Touch. Photography. National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, 8-a Tarasa Shevchenko St., 278-35-11, through Feb 12, Hr 4-7









Traditional dress of Western Polissia, clothing and textiles, Museum of Ivan Gonchar, 19 Lavrska St., 288-92-68, honchar.org.ua, through March 4, Hr 15







Body-Mechanism, Mykyta Kravtsov, oil paintings, Ya Gallery, 49B Khoryva St., 492-92-03, www.yagallery.com.ua, through March 3, free admission]]> United in love, but apart on Valentine’s Day http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122193/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:11:48 +0200
But there are plenty of people who would like to celebrate, but cannot spend the day with their beloved. Their love might be serving a romantic dinner to someone else, crossing the ocean in a plane or a ship or even staying behind bars to pay for their crime.

The “I love you” message in those couples is more difficult to send and receive, but they manage nevertheless.

Inmates and their other halves probably have it tougher than most: they cannot call each other freely and there are no extra visiting dates allowed on Valentine’s Day even for married couples. And, of course, there is no shop in prison selling heart-shaped trinkets to send back to your love.

Hennadiy, a 40-something former inmate who was too shy to disclose his name for print, said that when he was behind bars he asked his relatives and friends to secretly bring him a card months ahead of the holiday, so he had enough time to forward it to his beloved.

Sometimes the craftier inmates make pictures themselves. Their less lucky cellmates who did not have relatives willing to help in the love business would buy those custom-made works.

“Now that I am free, I give my wife toys, candies and cards,” Hennadiy says. But he noted that in Ukraine it’s mostly the younger people who care about this Western holiday, named after the Catholic bishop Valentine, who – ironically – also sent love letters out of prison in ancient Rome. Hennadiy said the holiday that older inmates care about is International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8.

Olena Musienko, the 50-year-old wife of a sailor,who also spends many Valentine’s Days alone, agreed that it’s a foreign holiday for the former Soviet republics.

“This holiday is more about our children,” she says. “The most important date to remember for our husbands is March 8. Most of the time we have to wait until they come back months later and make it up to us, but if my husband does remember about St. Valentine’s, he tries to organize some flowers or candy delivery.”
“Most of the time he bribes our daughters ahead of time to organize it for him,” Musienko laughs.

Sailors’ wives like to tell the story of a seaman who had been clever and foresighted enough to hide presents for all holidays before going away. True or not, but the legend says he hid jewelry in a back yard and a watch in a ventilation shaft because his wife loved cleaning and would find them in the house, spoiling the fun.

Those who work on the special day try to squeeze in a romantic surprise for their beloved nevertheless. Mykhailo, a 22 year-old barman working in Kyiv, says he has planned a surprise for his girlfriend, despite the fact that he has a day-long shift. He did not want his last name printed in case his girlfriend reads the story before Feb. 14.

He says the plan is to call her and ask her to come to his work, pretending he needs her help with something. “When she comes over, I’ll take her to a specially set table and serve her a beautiful dinner. Our cook is my friend so he’ll draw her name and heart on dessert. That is how I can be with my girlfriend on that day.”

His plan may not be easy to executive. The cafe is packed on that day, with clients wanting two things that clash: intimacy as well as fast, attentive service.

The young barman says his colleagues are not planning anything on the day because they expect it to be one of the busiest days of the year, and the best present they want is “a good tip and a rest afterwards.”

Hennadiy, the former inmate, says that one can find a way to celebrate if it really matters for you. “I believe it depends on the person,” he says. “If you want to show your love you’ll a way to do it, no matter where you are.”

Kyiv Post staff writer Yuliya Raskevich can be reached at raskevich@kyivpost.com.]]> Ukraine picks its best music http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122191/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:58:54 +0200

Ukrainian Olympic champion Yana Klochkova and showman Yuri Gorbunov give Oleh Skrypka an award for the best song.

Kostiantyn Meladze won in the best composer nomination and “Boombox” singer Andriy Khlyvniuk, who got his YUNA as the author of the best lyrics, handed his award over to Yurii Rybchynskyi, who he said deserved it more.

The prize for “special advancement over the last 20 years” went to 64-year-old singer Sofia Rotaru, who didn’t appear at the event. In a recorded acceptance speech, standing on a beach with a flower in her hair, she thanked YUNA’s guests and organizers.


Ruslana performs her Eurovision-winning hit “Dyki Tantsi” (Wild Dances).

A special jury picked the winners. It consisted of experts who don’t create music, but who have been involved with it professionally for at least five years.

The audience seemed to be delighted with jury’s choice. Palats Ukraina, where the ceremony took place, burst with applause from the thousands of fans each time the host announced a winner.


Ukrainian singer Gaitana sings “You’re My Everything” with Karl Frierson from the German jazz band De-Phazz.

The YUNA ceremony was opened with a joint performance of Germany’s Thomas Anders of Modern Talking and Ukraine’s Kamaliya. She was the only artist ineligible to compete for a prize because her husband, Mohammad Zahoor, is the founder of the awards program. Zahoor owns the ISTIL Group and is the publisher of the Kyiv Post.


YUNA founder Mohammad Zahoor, his wife, singer Kamaliya, and German pop singer Thomas Anders bask in the limelight.

Some nominees performed for the show in front of around 3,000 fans at the Palace of Ukraine. “Vahteram” by Boombox got a huge ovation. “Endless Summer,” the official song of the Euro 2012 football championships to be held in Ukraine and Poland this summer, was performed by Oceana.

Despite a one-hour delay and a few technical glitches, organizers and fans seemed satisfied with the first YUNA.


Singers Masha Sobko, Alyosha and Anya Dobrydnyeva perform some of Sofia Rotaru’s songs.

“We achieved our goal,” said YUNA producer Pavlo Shylko, better known as DJ Pasha. “We created a show that is unique.” According to Shylko, organizers were ready to start the show in time, but waited for some of the celebrities to arrive. “It was not a concert, but a TV show, so we couldn’t start without them,” he explained.


YUNA producer DJ Pasha congratulates Iryna Bilyk with winning the best female artist award.

The ceremony will be televised on Inter TV-channel on Feb. 12 at 11 p.m.

Kyiv Post staff writer Alyona Zhuk can be reached at zhuk@kyivpost.com. Photos by Kostyantyn Chernichkin]]> Kyiv’s women rated as world’s most beautiful http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122192/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:51:08 +0200
“Kyiv is, without a doubt, home to the world’s most beautiful women. A visit to Kyiv is truly awe-inducing. It’s almost hard to believe that women this beautiful even exist. They’re also less intimidating and more friendly than their Russian counterparts.Check out Kyiv in the summertime, when Hydropark Island on the Dnipro River becomes a hot spot for sunbathing Ukrainian beauties,” Traveler's Digest wrote.

This is Ukraine’s first appearance on the top list since the publication started ranking cities in 2006, said Hong Kong-based editor Dakota Smith. “We had not sent travel writers to Ukraine before last year, ” he said.

Ukrainian women are beautiful and quite interesting and intelligent

- Dakota Smith, editor.

The award is based on the opinions of the site’s 10 travel writers – not all of whom have been to Kyiv, but who collectively have visited 100 cities.

Smith has been to Kyiv only once, in September for a week, but liked what he saw.


“They are stunning. They are elegant. Tall. Brunettes. Blondes. Light eyes and friendly as well,” Smith raved. “I’ve studied Russian. It’s not very good, but people are willing to talk with me and have conversations.They seem much more approachable than in Moscow and a few other places in Eastern Europe.”

Even though Smith is 24 and single, he came and left without any romantic attachments. “I went to school with a girl who lives in Kyiv,” he said. “We went to dinner. That’s about it.”

Smith was smitten not only by physical beauty, but rather by characteristics that he hopes will help Ukrainian women shake an unfair reputation of them abroad as mail-order brides and as providing a destination for sex tourists, a sort of Bangkok of the north.

“People there are so educated. You can have conversations about literature, art and philosophy,” said Smith, a Canadian-American.

"Ukrainian women are beautiful and quite interesting and intelligent.”

Smith also thinks that Ukraine will hold the top spot for some years to come.

“I think Kyiv will be there [at the No. 1 position] for awhile,” Smith said. “Stockholm was No. 1 for a long time and it’s now No. 2. So there’s not a big dropoff.”

Only time will tell if this reputation leads to a tourist boom. But, considering the unfortunate ways that Ukraine makes international news - Chornobyl, corruption, fistfights in parliament, oligarchs buying up expensive real estate abroad, homeless people freezing in the streets - this is an honor worth savoring.

Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner can be reached at bonner@kyivpost.com ]]> Kyiv artists losing their workplaces http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122188/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:51 +0200
Studios are also under threat, either rented or owned by the National Artists Union, which can hardly afford utility rent increases adopted for businesses and non-profit organizations like theirs.

“I feel homeless all the time, living in a country where the work of artists is not appreciated by the state,” complains Vira Barenova-Kuleba, 73, an artist who spent her entire career painting. She may be losing her studio on Gorky Street because she can no longer afford her heating bills.

Others who have been working on Andriyivsky Uzviv, however, are losing work places to the construction of a hotel and restaurant complex.

Many of those affected complain that they are treated unfairly, with little or no chances to appeal the decisions that render them homeless or severely impact their ability to make a living through producing art.

Those 18 artists who got a sticker on their door on Dec. 30, warning them to leave the premises by Jan. 4, say they had no chance to appeal their eviction.

The people who brought the stickers said they were firefighters, that the building was in danger of catching a fire, and that they represented the new owner of the building, a company called Aviantbud.

For the artists on Andriyivsky, the company’s name came to be synonymous with threat since 2007, when they received a letter that the building had been sold. Before that, since 1982, it was rented by the National Artists Union from the Podil district administration.

“When we first came here all the buildings on the street were half-ruined, all the windows broken and the only people living here were homeless from the neighboring hills,” says Vadym Korzhenko, an artist who has worked in the building since 1982.


Artist Vadym Korzhenko in his studio. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

He said young artists were enthusiastic about their new homes and started organizing exhibitions and art fairs in the street.

Over time, the Artists’ Union improved the building the best it could, connected it to heating and running water, and paid rent to the district government in the meantime.

“We couldn’t afford a euro-remont [high-class renovation] as in modern business centers,” says Petro Zykunov, deputy head of the union. “However, we have taken care of it.”

Despite the fact that by law, existing tenants receive the first right of privatization, “we weren’t asked to participate in the tender or even warned,” says another artist Oleksandr Dobrodiy, who has been working in the building for 12 years.


The artists filed lawsuits to both the Podilsky administrative court and Kyiv Podilskiy commercial court five years ago, challenging the sale by the district administration, but no ruling has been produced yet.

Representatives of the Podil administration claim that the artists’ lease ran out in 2004. “According to the Podil city state administration’s ruling the buildings at 18 Andriyivsky Uzviz were rented out to the private company Aviantbud, as the reconstruction of the building had been launched and the company was the one to sponsor it, in 2004,” the Podil administration explained to the Kyiv Post in writing. It also explained that later, in 2007, the company used its legitimate right to buy out the building.

“But you can just come and see it with your own eyes. There is no reconstruction started here,” says Dobrogiy. Moreover, artists claim they have never seen any representatives of the company, which has no website. Its phones listed in various directories do not respond.

Andriy Sodol, the lawyer who represents the Artists Union in their fight for studios on Andriyivsky Uzviv, is skeptical about the chances of winning, despite believing that the law is on the artists’ side. So, he thinks the artists may be evicted any day.

The artists themselves, meanwhile, roam their studios, wondering what they would do with all the stuff that accumulated over the years, including their own paintings on the walls, standing in the corners and waiting to be finished on easels. “The union doesn’t have money to get us another place to work,” Korzhenko says.

Another lot of artists who have studios on top floors of buildings in the city center might actually choose to leave themselves, driven away by the fact that they can no longer afford to pay for the heating.

Some of those studios have been in use by artists since 1970s, but this is the first winter that heating prices have been hiked so much that artists have to pay up to Hr 3,000 per studio – an equivalent of rent for a one-room apartment in Kyiv. Last year, the figure was around Hr 700.


The artists themselves, meanwhile, roam their studios, wondering what they would do with all the stuff that accumulated over the years. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

The Cabinet of Ministers issued a resolution in December that the Artists Union, which is a non-profit organization, has to pay corporate rates for gas, which is more than four times the price regular citizens pay. Previously, the Artists Union was allowed to pay the low rates for gas, courtesy of a city council resolution from December 2010.

Many artists believe that the hike is “a way to drive us [the artists] out of our workshops,” says Natalia Lytovchenko, the Artists Union’s board member.
The union owns 573 workrooms in Kyiv.

Most of them are small, about 50 square meters in area, but are centrally located. Artists use them as co-owners and don’t pay any rent, but are responsible for utility bills.

“My pension together with all possible bonuses makes Hr 1,600. I have to pay Hr 1,500 for utility bills and what’s next – to live on bread and water?” says Mykola Churilov, 76, author of some of the most famous Ukrainian cartoons on TV, “Kryvenka Kachechka,” “Ivasyk Telesyk” and many others.

To keep their studios, some of the artists have rented out their homes and live in the workshops, choosing to breath paint and varnish vapors over losing their place of work.

Oleksandr Bryginets, head of the cultural and tourism commission of Kyiv State City administration, says the artists should fight new heating rates in courts and in the streets, like the Chornobyl cleanup workers did in autumn, faced with a threat of losing their benefits.

Non-payment is a bad option that will make Kyivenergo claim the debts in court, which might force the union to sell its property. And then, the artists will lose their studios for sure.

Kyiv Post staff writer Daryna Shevchenko can be reached at Shevchenko@kyivpost.com and Anastasia Forina at forina@kyivpost.com.]]> Lover’s day can bring out the quirkiness in all of us http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122190/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:04 +0200
Many of these are discovered by people in the catering industry – those who sell flowers, who drive taxis and restaurant workers.

Volodymyr Shyptenko, a waiter from Oscar restaurant in Kyiv, remembers working on last year’s Valentine’s Day.

It was a night when luck struck suddenly - and then changed its mind.

Feb. 14 is known as a time when people tend to tip generously, so money for waiters is good. “People are mostly joyful and not greedy, so we get good tips,” Shyptenko says.

The restaurant was overcrowded; all the tables were reserved. A couple came in closer to the end of the night to take a reserved table. “Both looked good, but the young man was a bit nervous. It was obvious that they are having a first date,” Shyptenko recalls.

So far, so good. The couple had a long evening, talking a lot, eating fruit and drinking expensive wine.

The bill was more than Hr 500. “Later, when I brought the bill, the man smiled at me, thanked for a good evening and gave me a Hr 200 tip. I was surprised, but considered this to be a generous gesture from a grateful customer,” Shyptenko says.

But the next morning it turned out that the client had second thoughts about his generosity. The man came back, looking ashamed and asking for his tip back.

“He felt a bit uncomfortable when he came to me, explaining who he is and what he wants,” says Shyptenko. “He said: ‘I hope you can understand me as only a man can understand another man.’

“The lady must have blown him off and he decided at least to get the cash back,” Shyptenko concludes. He felt sorry for the unlucky bloke, and gave him his money back for consolation.

Mykola, a taxi driver, drove away with plenty of cash on the last Valentine’s Day. He did not want to give his last name for print because of the way he made it, though. “I don’t want my wife to find out,” he says.

He had no celebrations planned, just work. At some point in the evening, he took what looked like a typical order. Three ladies got into his cab, looking pretty and festive. The driver took them around the city for a bit, chatting all the way.

At the end of the trip the chirpy driver received an unexpected offer: to spend the night with all three of them, and get paid what he usually made in a night of taxi driving.

“They were nice and I agreed,” he says simply and somewhat timidly. He is now afraid to watch TV shows that help people find their relatives. “I am afraid someone may be looking for a daddy,” he says, with a nervous laugh.


Drama seems to be the second name of Valentine’s Day. Ilona Beh, a waitress working in Kyiv for six years, has seen plenty of them. But her favorite one is about the runaway bride, which happened a few years back.

A young man called her restaurant to book a table. He warned that it will be a special evening for him as he was planning to propose. He got an intimate table in the corner, and prepared well. He brought photos of himself and his girlfriend to set on the table and extra candles. He proposed over champagne.

“The ‘happy’ fiancee said nothing, then took her phone, her purse and ran away,” the waitress says. She ran so fast that her coat was left behind, and she didn’t seem to care.

“It was cold outside and I thought [at first] that she is off to meet someone, so I didn’t pay much attention. But she never came back,” Beh says.

Another one of Beh’s favorite love stories has a totally different flavor. “I have never seen so many white roses,” she recalls. One of her clients booked a whole restaurant to propose. The couple had been living together for a number of years, had children, but were not married.

“He made it a fairytale, decorated everything with thousands of white roses, invited guests – all in white - and proposed when she came in,” she says. She whispered ‘yes’ as he hugged her, and they married right there and then, in the hall of the restaurant, after he answered ‘Let’s not put it off any longer.’”

Oleksandr Ivanov, a tourist agency director in Kyiv, has his own favorite Valentine’s Day story to tell. “I always remember one couple, both over 50,” he says. “She booked a trip to Maldives, a romantic dinner on an uninhabited island and a photo session in wedding attire.”

This is why he remembers it: “It’s not an unusual story, but it proves that you can do something special for your loved one, no matter how old you are.”

Kyiv Post staff writer Daryna Shevchenko can be reached at shevchenko@kyivpost.com. ]]> Sculptures of Ukraine’s genius to shine in France’s Louvre http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122189/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:30:49 +0200
The museum’s scouts have picked out 28 works of the 18th-century artist that will go on display between Nov. 12 of this year and Feb. 25, 2013.]]>
The Louvre specialists picked out seven sculptures from her museum.

They also picked out three from the Prykarpattya Museum in Ivano-Frankivsk, and the Pinzel Museum in Lviv will lend the most masterpieces - 18.

Stetsko says it’s a lot, considering that most of Pinzel’s works were destroyed by the Soviet regime. There is little information left about the artist, too – yet enough for the Louvre specialists to know him and show initiative to organize a solo exhibit.

Art critics from the famous museum came to western Ukraine in 2009 to visit the places where Pinzel lived and worked, and offered to take some of his masterpieces to display in Louvre.

“All expenses will be covered by the Louvre, including packing, transportation and insurance,” says Mykhailo Deynega, head of the Prykarpattya Museum.

Deynega says he feels extremely proud that a Ukrainian artist has been noticed by the world, and will get even more famous thanks to the upcoming exposition.

Though the Louvre website contains no information about the exhibition so far, its press service confirmed that the exhibit is scheduled for this fall, promising more public information closer to the date of the exhibit.



One of the works of sculptor Ioann Heorh Pinzel, exhibited in Lviv on Aug. 14, 2007. (UNIAN)

Stetsko said that Pinzel came to Ukraine around the 1740s, surfacing in the court of Mykola Pototskyi, a famous patron of arts of his time. “No one knows where he came from, nor what his real name was,” she said.

Pinzel is believed to have studied somewhere in Europe, most likely in Italy. Stetsko says that “his works were heavily influenced by the Renaissance art.”

But bringing European traditions into Ukrainian sculpture is not what made Pinzel famous. He developed his own style that doesn’t have an official term, but can be described as flexible expressionism.

“Before him, sculptures were made in a canonical way, but his works look alive, capturing the dynamics of movement,”explains Stetsko.

Borys Voznytskyi, head of Lviv’s Pinzel Museum, says that Pinzel is by far the brightest representative of Ukraine’s 18th century baroque style. He has been compared to Michelangelo and Lorenzo Bernini, the famous sons of Italy.

Art historians say that public interest to Pinzel’s work has been rising lately. Three museums joined forces to promote him and the year 2007 as The Year of Pinzel, organizing multiple exhibitions and publishing photo albums of his masterpieces to tell the world about him.


His fame reached France, and even Japan.

“A crew from Japan’s channel NHK came to Ukraine last year to film a documentary about Pinzel,” says Stetsko. “It was released in October, though, unfortunately, Ukraine didn’t buy the screening rights.”

Pinzel’s sculptures will travel to Paris in October, and will be in display in their home museums until then.

Several of the masterpieces picked out by the Louvre have not been on permanent exposition before.

“There was not enough places, but we are thinking about reorganizing the exposition when they return from France, as more and more people show interest to Pinzel’s works,” says Stetsko.


Pinzel’s works can be viewed in the following museums:

Ternopil Museum of Regional Studies,
Ternopil,3, Maydan Mystectv, (0352)52 44 77

Prykarpattya Art Museum,
Ivano-Frankivsk, 8, Sheptyckogo, (03422) 440 38

Pinzel Museum,
Lviv, 2, Mytna ploshcha,
(032) 275 69 66

Louvre’s website:
www.louvre.fr/en

Kyiv Post staff writer Alyona Zhuk can be reached at zhuk@kyivpost.com]]> The crazy French girls are still here http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/clubs/detail/122187/ Clubs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:27:26 +0200
In 1951, Allen Bernardine opened the Crazy Horse Saloon which soon became a popular venue on the Paris night scene.


The cabaret’s chic and creative dance numbers were well-received by the audience. While preserving its heritage, over the decades the show has become more technologically spectacular with special effects, kaleidoscopic lighting and pulsing music.

Famous among the Paris elite, the girls even inspired Salvador Dali to create his famous lip-shaped couch, which eventually appeared in the cabaret’s show and inspired the design of a bottle in its own line of perfume.

The Crazy Horse turns seduction and allurement into an art form. This long-running act has performed in front of such luminaries as President John F. Kennedy, Liza Minelli, Kevin Kostner and Quentin Tarantino.

The manager prides the girls on being “perfectly shaped” and says that most of them are professionally trained.

The 90-minute show is filled with humor, dazzling choreography and barely visible costumes.

Two dancers are from Ukraine and Russia, but unfortunately for all the curious men, the cabaret girls are strictly forbidden to talk to the visitors or the staff.

Fri, Feb. 10 - 6 p.m., 8:30 p.m.; Sat, Feb. 11 - 3:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 8:30 p.m.; Sun, Feb. 12 - 3 p.m.,5:30 p.m., 8 p.m.,
Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta, 53/3 Velyka Vasylkivska, St., Hr 300-1,600.]]> An explosion of magic http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122186/ Special Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:24:17 +0200
They challenge the laws of physics making people disappear; flowers and objects sprout out of nowhere, and victims cut in half that miraculously get back to their original, unharmed, shapes.

But these magicians don’t just do tricks. Michael Michaels from the US, for instance, is famous for making his audience laugh.

Mantas from Lithuania blends a Gothic spirit, surrealism and philosophy into his act. And Aaron Crow from Belgium is an acclaimed mentalist.

But they each have one thing in common – they will make you believe the unbelievable.

Sat, Feb 11, 4 p.m, Sun, Feb.12, 7:30 p.m., Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivsa St., Hr 50- 1200]]> New show at the Pinchuk Art Center http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/galleries/detail/122185/ Galleries Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:23:35 +0200
Gary Hume started out by doing “door paintings,” which are life-size representations of hospital doors he has been producing for nearly a decade.

After doors got monotonous, he took interest in something more alive, like human bodies, face expressions, flowers and birds. He favored paintings in household gloss paint on aluminum panel.

However, the forms are hardly recognizable since they are reduced to only several colors and basic shapes.

His exhibition “Beauty” encompasses abstract works curiously titled Rainbow, Anxiety and the Horse, and a sculpture series Bikini.

Jeff Wall uses photography to explore the maturing process of young people. Sixteen photographs and seven light boxes, a signature feature of the photographer, converge in the show entitled “In light, black, colour, white, and dark.”

Wall is also known for his academic achievements in art history. Studying and lecturing through his career, he started experimenting with conceptual art at the age of 24.

His trademark works are large transparent photos he mounts on light boxes. The artist says he was inspired by the back-lit ads at bus stops while traveling in Europe.

Through April 1, Pinchuk Art Center, 1/3-2, “A” Block, Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna St., free admission]]> The Little Prince comes alive http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/classic/detail/122184/ Classical Music, Opera, Ballet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:18:46 +0200
Adult Pilot, Little Prince, Flower Rose, The Fox and the Snake are the main characters in this play by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

While traveling with the Little Prince through the universe and accompanying him on Earth you’ll take a ride through the range of emotions from elevating joy to deep sadness.

There is no need to worry about the language barrier: this particular theater performance is all about movements, not words.

Sat, Sun, Feb. 18 – 19, 7 p.m., Plastic Drama Theater, 7-A Shovkovychna St., www.ktpd.ho.com.ua, Hr 60]]> A horse lover who dreams of green tourism pastures http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/general/detail/122183/ General Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:14:08 +0200
The four-legged doctor works four days a week for six hours at a local stadium, assisted by three human specialists. An hour lesson costs Hr 60.

“The children get onto a horse and forget that they are unwell, they unconsciously switch on some muscles that had not worked before, and relax others that were cramped,” he says.

But the most visible effect is psychological. Horse therapy is a very uplifting and powerful tool. “I have felt the effect myself,” he says.

Lun started his hippotherapy project two years ago, after starting to ride a horse helped him improve his mood and physique. A month after starting to ride, he was on a horse every day, feeling much happier, had lost 14 kilos of weight, and bought his first horse – a gorgeous young stallion called Tristan.

Then he had an idea for therapy, and bought Grudka to train.

To support his equestrian friends, Lun runs a day job as a consumer goods sales representative, and a small business in Lviv. It takes Hr 1,500 to buy a month’s worth of food for a horse.

Then, there is the veterinarian services and upkeep. In October, for example, his expenses ran up to Hr 12,000, while the riding lessons and therapy brought in Hr 8,000.

But Lun says there is no regret about the money math.

“I am lucky. At age 35 I know what I want,” he says, and moves on to talk about his dream.

When he rode a horse a couple of years ago for the first time since his teens, he realized he had to own one. Two years and two horses down the road, he knows he has to build a green tourism center – and is working on it.

He found a suitable spare communal land plot of seven hectares just 20 kilometers outside Lviv and – along with several friends and relatives – has applied to the local council to get the allotment under the law which sets 2 hectares of land for each Ukrainian.

He prepared a set of documents, drafts and three-dimensional models of what his eco-center is going to look like, and has waited for a year to have the land allocated. He says it will probably take at least another year to get it.

In the meantime, he is living the green lifestyle already. An owner of two flats in the city center, he found a collapsing house in the village and moved there in place of a family who left Ukraine to look for a better life abroad.

There is no running water there – in fact, there is barely any water in the well if rains don’t come for a while. He says he showers “whenever and wherever” he can – “and that’s the only real problem.”

The house is heated by an old wood-burning stove, but much of the food is now cooked on a small travel gas stove – a real luxury that they have had for several months now, his girlfriend says.

Nina Skorobogatko has just driven back home in her hatchback. Wearing a shimmering silvery mini-dress, high heeled boots and make-up, she looks oddly out of place in her rural dilapidated home.

In the city, she runs a small business training beauty specialists. Here, she is cooking a water rat, or nutria, that Lun had caught the other day.

Nina’s nutria is cooked in a creamy sauce, and it tastes quite like a rabbit. While we’re eating, Lun says natural food is what the visitors of his dream center will get to eat.

“The food and drinks there will be all natural, coming from the village, starting with milk and finishing with rabbits,” he said.
He pulls out a fat folder full of drawings and models to proudly show what it will be like.

“Don’t spill wine on it – particularly the topography – that cost me Hr 5,000,” he warns, then laughs. “Don’t worry – I am a man of civilization – I have computer backups.”

That sounds funny in a house that seems like it comes from two centuries ago.

On his plan are 10 houses for visitors, and an eatery, built by traditional methods that involve plenty of wood and clay. They will have all modern conveniences, just like a hotel room – and that’s the only concession to the modern times Lun is prepared to make.

It has neat horse walk routes mapped out, and two maneges to continue with horse therapy and other activities. Long horse trips will be available over several days, as well as horse riding for anyone willing.

Lun has seen a similar business model working in Poland, Italy and France, and says what is sold as green tourism here “is a terrible fake”.
One day, he hopes to change that.

Kyiv Post editor Katya Gorchinskaya can be reached at gorchinskaya@kyivpost.com.]]> Scissor Sisters to glam up Kyiv http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/music/detail/122182/ Music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:42 +0200
Three albums one after another hit the top of British charts, making Scissor Sisters one of the most successful bands of the 2000s.

Their latest album “Night Work” (2010) had back vocals of Kylie Minogue and Ian McKellen, and their live performances are told to be something very special, with all the glam rock they bring on stage. The show in Kyiv is almost sold out, so hurry up!

Thu, Feb. 16, Stereo Plaza, 17 Kikvidze St., 222 80 40, tickets at: www.parter.ua, www.biletik.ua. Hr 350-800.]]> Rock and guitar legend http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/music/detail/122180/ Music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:05:16 +0200
But in several decades on stage, this 60-year old composer and musician manages to treat the audiences with new compositions. This is the fourth time the singer is coming to Kyiv. This time he is bringing his new album “Santo Spirito Blues”, as well as old hits.

When the 22-year old left-handed Camillo Rea picked up the guitar, he went against his nature and learned to play with his right hand. He conquered England first with his major hit, The Road to Hell in 1989, topping the charts in the UK, while in the US it never gained the same traction.

Then followed the hit Auberge, which conquered both the UK and the US charts.

Once the world almost lost this genius musician. Diagnosed with pancreatitis, Rea went through an operation, which gave him half and half chances of survival. This experience pushed him back to the blues.

Mon, Feb. 13, 7 p.m., Palats Ukraina, 103 Velyka Vasylkivska St., Hr 300-2500]]> Movie Listings http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/movies/detail/122179/ Movies Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:55:25 +0200 This week, Kyiv Post recommends two good old films: one drama in Spanish and one thriller in English.

American “My Week with Marilyn,” another one of our picks, is released this week – but only in Ukrainian.]]> SECRETS OF THE HEART (SECRETOS DEL CORAZON)
Drama
Spain 1997, 107’
Language: Spanish with Russian subtitles
Directed by Montxo Armendáriz
Feb. 14 at 7 p.m.
Master Class Cultural Center

Childhood seems fun: you can play, run and climb trees all day long, and adults are the ones who know answers to all questions, who will take care of you, and take your troubles away. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy for kids in some families.

Javi, a curious 9-year-old boy, lives at his aunt’s together with his older brother Juan. When summer comes, they visit their parents’ home, a place of shocking tragedy.

Although the boys have been told that their father had killed himself accidentally while cleaning his gun, their mother knows the truth and forbids them to enter the room with a chair, which is still stained with the man’s blood.

Of course, the boys do their best to sneak into the room, as they believe that their father’s spirit is hiding his secrets there.


PSYCHO
Thriller, Mystery, Horror
Brazil 1960, 109’
Language: English with English subtitles
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.
Master Class Cultural Center

Suspense hardly matters in modern horror movies, enormously cruel, filled with spooky screams, washed with liters of blood, and often with a predictable plot.

But things were quite different in the middle of the 20th century.

To preserve the suspense of his “Psycho,” not only did Alfred Hitchcock make the crew swear to keep the resolution in secret, but even bought up all copies of the screened novel he managed to find.

This classical black-and-white movie tells the story of a young secretary Marion, who needs money to marry her lover.

Desperate to find another way to get it, she steals $40,000 from her company’s client and runs away from the city.

Caught off guard by storm, she decides to stop for a night in a road motel, where she meets Norman Bates, who owns the place and loads of secrets. He also has a really weird mom.


MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Biography, Drama
USA 2011, 99’
Language: Ukrainian
Directed by Simon Curtis
Feb. 10-15
Zhovten, Kyiv and others

The posh and gorgeous American actress, singer and model Marilyn Monroe hardly needs introduction.

The blonde with red lips, bright eyes and a sexy little spot on her cheek is still a beauty icon, even 50 years after her death.

Together with her husband, Monroe came to London in 1956 to star in the “The Prince and the Showgirl” movie. When young assistant director Colin Clarkfalls for her, everyone warns him she’s gonna break his heart.

However, what really happened to him remained a mystery – there was a week missed in Clark’s diary, released in 1990s. It takes him years to muster enough courage to divulge what happened that week. He eventually did in 2000.

“My Week with Marilyn” tells the story of that particular week.]]> Going Out Guide: Thursday, Feb. 16 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122177/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:16:30 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

The Kyiv Post is bringing you a new lifestyle feature that will allow you to sift through your entertainment options for the day more easily, read reviews of the best this week has to offer, and find out how much it costs and where to find it.

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Classical Music

C’est Amour, poems of Jacques Prevert and Federico Garcia Lorca (guitar, soprano and piano); National Philharmonic of Ukraine, 7 p.m., Hr 30-80
www.filarmonia.com.ua/en

The Ravisan trio (clarinet, organ playing Smetana, Stravinsky, Lafeber-Velli); House of Organ Music, 7:30 p.m., Hr 20-50
www.organhall.kiev.ua

Movies

“Psycho” (see our review here) (Thriller, Horror); Master Klass, 7 p.m., Hr 30
masterklass.org


Live Music

Kofei.IN & Ruki v Bryuki (rockabilly); Docker Pub, 9 p.m., Hr 50
www.docker.com.ua

Goodlife (rock covers); Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., Hr 50
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Pozitiv Band; Porter Pub, 9 p.m., free admission
www.porter.com.ua

Dai Pyat (hip-hop); Art Club 44, 10 p.m., Hr 50
www.club44.com.ua


Theater

The taming of the shrew (Comedy by William Shakespeare); Franko Ukrainian Drama Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 15-150
ft.org.ua

Family dinner (Comedy); Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 20- 200
www.rusdram.com.ua

Five Pelevin’s stories; New Theater on Pechersk, 7 p.m., Hr 50 – 80
newtheatre.kiev.ua

My dear Pamela (Criminal comedy); Molodoy Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 30 – 60
www.molody.kiev.ua

Shows

Scissor Sisters, (see our review here) (British pop); Stereo Plaza, 7 p.m., Hr 350 – 800
stereoplaza.com.ua

Tango of life (Plastic dance show); Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta, 7 p.m., Hr 70-90
www.kiev-operetta.kiev.ua


Miscellaneous

An Evening of Tango by KievTangoProject, Master Klass, 8 p.m., Hr 70
masterklass.org


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.



Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Going Out Guide: Wednesday, Feb. 15 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122176/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:05:48 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

The Kyiv Post is bringing you a new lifestyle feature that will allow you to sift through your entertainment options for the day more easily, read reviews of the best this week has to offer, and find out how much it costs and where to find it.

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Works of Bach, Stanley, Voland; House of Organ Music, 7:30 p.m., Hr 20-50
www.organhall.kiev.ua

Movies

“My week with Marilyn” (see our review here) (in Ukrainian), Biographical Drama; Zhovten and others, 6 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Hr 15-60
www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua


Live Music

Rockin’ Wolves (rock); Docker Pub, 9.30, free admission
www.docker.com.ua

The Magma (pop-rock); Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., Hr 30
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Shubin Band (cover); Porter Pub, 9 p.m., free admission
www.porter.com.ua

Novy Soyuz (hip-hop); Art Club 44, 10 p.m., Hr 50
www.club44.com.ua


Theater

Dead souls (Comedy); Kyiv Academic Drama Theater in Podil, 7 p.m., Hr 70
www.theatreonpodol.com

Girl with matches (A play in two acts); Dakh Modern Art Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 70
www.dax.com.ua

Territory of love (Operetta); Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta; 7 p.m., Hr 250 – 1,500
www.kiev-operetta.kiev.ua

The guests are coming at midnight (Tragifarce); Drama & Comedy Theater on the left bank of Dnipro, 7 p.m., Hr 40 -70
www.drama-comedy.kiev.ua

Zaporozhets beyond the Danube (Opera); National Opera Theater of Ukraine, 7 p.m., Hr 20 – 200
operacomua.colocall.com


Miscellaneous

Handmade Fashion 2012 exhibition, Kyiv Expo Plaza, through Feb. 18, free admission
expoplaza.kiev.ua


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.



Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Going Out Guide: Thuesday, Feb. 14 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122174/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:47:35 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

The Kyiv Post is bringing you a new lifestyle feature that will allow you to sift through your entertainment options for the day more easily, read reviews of the best this week has to offer, and find out how much it costs and where to find it.

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Valentine’s Day with the National Academic Band of Ukraine ( Lavalier, Doppler, Doga, Krotin, Gade St. Wander, Kern, J. Strauss); National Philharmonic of Ukraine, 7 p.m., Hr 20-100
www.filarmonia.com.ua/en

“Salut-D’amour” with Kyiv-Brass chamber ensemble (soprano and piano, works of Mendes, Gershwin, Ellington, and others); House of Organ Music, 7:30 p.m.,
Hr 20-50
www.organhall.kiev.ua

From Master Klass with Love (Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Lehar, Elgar, Vivaldi, Pachelbel); Master Klass, 8 p.m., Hr 70
masterklass.org


Movies

“My week with Marilyn” (see our review here) (in Ukrainian), Biographical Drama; Zhovten and others, 6 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Hr 15-60
www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua

“Secrets of the heart” (see our review here) (drama); Master Klass, 7 p.m., free admission
masterklass.org


Live Music

Strong Time and Red Rocks (rock); Docker Pub, 9 p.m., Hr 50
www.docker.com.ua

Tres Deseos (latino); Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., Hr 50
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Slow Roll (blues, rock); Porter Pub, 8 p.m., free admission
www.porter.com.ua


Clubs

Valentine’s Day with dubstep and techno; Cinema Club, 11 p.m., Hr 20-40
cinemaclub.kiev.ua

Love and the City; Sullivan Room, 9 p.m., Hr 100
www.sullivanroom.kiev.ua


Theater

Giselle (Ballet); National Opera Theater of Ukraine, 7 p.m., Hr 20-180
operacomua.colocall.com

Number 13 (Mad Night, or The Pigden’s Marriage) (Comedy); Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater , 7 p.m., Hr 20-250
www.rusdram.com.ua

Prima donnas (Comedy); Koleso Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 100
www.koleso.teatr.kiev.ua

Violet of Montmartre (Operetta); Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta, 7 p.m., Hr 30-70
operacomua.colocall.com

La bonne Anna, or how to save a family (Comedy); Kyiv Academic Drama Theater in Podil, 7 p.m., Hr 70
www.theatreonpodol.com


Shows

Gaitana Romantic Show (pop music); Freedom Hall, 8 p.m. Hr 750-1,150
www.freedomhall.com.ua

Children’s Valentine’s Ball, Master Klass, 4 p.m., Hr 100
masterklass.org


Miscellaneous

Valentine's Venitian Night (pasta menu, music and more); Ciro’s Pomodoro, 7 p.m. – 2 a.m., Hr 400 minimum spent requirement
pomodoro.kiev.ua

Dance Ensemble of Pavlo Virsky; Palats Ukraina, 7 p.m., Hr 100-450
npmu.com.ua


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.

Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Going Out Guide: Monday, Feb. 13 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122170/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:33:17 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

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Soprano, baritone, clavichord and organ playing Vivaldi, Hendel, Lucci, Mozart, Beethoven; House of Organ Music, 7:30 p.m.,
Hr 20-50
www.organhall.kiev.ua


Movies

“My week with Marilyn” (see our review here) (in Ukrainian), Biographical Drama; Zhovten and others, 6 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Hr 15-60
www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua


Live Music

Animals Session (classic rock); Docker Pub, 9.30 p.m., free admission
www.docker.com.ua

Some Like It Hot (jazz-rock); Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., free admission
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Natalya Lebedeva’s band (jazz); Art Club 44, 10 p.m., free admission
www.club44.com.ua

And so I watch you from afar (Irish, punk-rock); Xlib Club, Hr 80-120
xlib.com.ua


Theater

Faces (Drama); Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater, 7 p.m, Hr 380 -2,000.
www.rusdram.com.ua

Vasia should call (Comedy); Drama & Comedy Theater on the left bank of Dnipro;,7 p.m., Hr 100
www.drama-comedy.kiev.ua

1,001 passion, or the little nothings of life (Tragicomedy) ; Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater; 8 p.m., Hr 100.
www.rusdram.com.ua


Shows

Chris Rea (see our review here) (British rock and blues); Palats Ukraina, Hr 300-1,100
npmu.com.ua


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.



Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Going Out Guide: Sunday, Feb. 12 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122168/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:18:33 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

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Music by Beethoven, Franck, R. Strauss (violin, piano); National Philharmonic of Ukraine, 7 p.m., Hr 30-80
www.filarmonia.com.ua/en

Movies

“My week with Marilyn” (see our review here) (in Ukrainian), Biographical Drama; Zhovten and others, 6 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Hr 15-60
www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua

Live Music

Antytila (pop-rock); Docker Pub, 9 p.m., Hr 100
www.docker.com.ua

Wunderkindy (rock); Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., free admission
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Yukhim Dym (Russian rock covers); Porter Pub, 8 p.m., free admission
www.porter.com.ua

Soyuz 44 (jazz jam session); Art Club 44, 10 p.m., free admission
www.club44.com.ua


Clubs

Karaoke party; Sky Bar, 8 p.m., Hr 100 for females, Hr 200 for males
www.skybar.com.ua

Chic and Smoke party; Sullivan Room, 11 p.m., Hr 30 for females, Hr 50 for males
www.sullivanroom.kiev.ua


Theater

The importance of being earnest (Comedy by Oscar Wilde); Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 15-150
www.rusdram.com.ua

Don Giovanni (Pantomime); Plastic Drama Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 50
www.ktpd.ho.com.ua

The Seagull (Romantic drama); House of Actors, 7 p.m., Hr 50-70
actorhall.com.ua

The tavernkeeper (Comedy); Kyiv Academic Drama Theater in Podil, 7 p.m., Hr 60.
www.theatreonpodol.com

A quartet for two (Comedy); Molodoy Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 40 – 80
www.molody.kiev.ua


Shows

The Best World Magicians’ Show; (see our review here) Palats Ukraina, 7:30 p.m, Hr 50–1,200

npmu.com.ua

The Crazy Horse (see our review here) (French cabaret); Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta, 3:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 8:30 p.m., Hr 300-1,600
operacomua.colocall.com


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.



Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Going Out Guide: Saturday, Feb. 11 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122165/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:54:37 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

The Kyiv Post is bringing you a new lifestyle feature that will allow you to sift through your entertainment options for the day more easily, read reviews of the best this week has to offer, and find out how much it costs and where to find it.

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The Great Poet in Music, a tribute to Alexander Pushkin (romances, fragments of operas); National Philharmonic of Ukraine, 7 p.m., Hr 30-80
www.filarmonia.com.ua/en

Organ music of Cesar Frank; House of Organ Music, 7:30 p.m., Hr 20-50
www.organhall.kiev.ua


Movies

“My week with Marilyn” (see our review here) (in Ukrainian), Biographical Drama; Zhovten and others, 6 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Hr 15-60
www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua

Love Films Night (see our review here) (in Ukrainian); Kinopanorama, 11 p.m., Hr 50-100
kinopanorama.com.ua


Live Music

Mad Heads & More Huana (rock); Docker Pub, 10 p.m., Hr 75
www.docker.com.ua

Strong Time & Karnavalnaya Zhara; Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., Hr 75
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Jean Tonic; Porter Pub, 10 p.m., 9.30 p.m., free admission
www.porter.com.ua

Mj Project (cover band); Art Club 44, 10 p.m., Hr 50
www.club44.com.ua


Clubs

Dyadya Zhora DJ set; Saxon Club, 11 p.m., Hr 30- 50 for females, Hr 40-60 for males
www.saxonclub.com.ua

Dance Heroes; Seven Music Club, 10 p.m., Hr 30
www.se7en.com.ua

Desperados Party (Mexico style); Dorothy Pub, 9 p.m., free admission
www.pubdorothy.com.ua


Theater

Bremen musicians (musical for children); Franko Ukrainian Drama Theater; 12 a.m., Hr 10-30
ft.org.ua

Too happy a father (Comedy) Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater, 12 a.m., Hr 30-200
www.rusdram.com.ua

Spartacus (Ballet); National Opera Theater of Ukraine; 7 p.m., Hr 20-180

operacomua.colocall.com

Lettice and Lavindzh (Fun with ghosts); Suzirya Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 80
www.suzirja.org.ua

A human voice (Erotic tragedy); Golden Gates Theater, 7 p.m., Hr 60
zoloti-vorota.kiev.ua


Shows

Stars of San Remo, (the stars of Italian popular music); Palats Ukraina, 7 p.m., Hr 200-3,490
npmu.com.ua

Chris Rea (see our review here) (British rock and blues); Palats Ukraina, Hr 300-1,100
npmu.com.ua

The Crazy Horse (see our review here) (French cabaret); Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta, 3:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 8:30 p.m., Hr 300-1,600
operacomua.colocall.com


Miscellaneous

Kvartal-95 (Comedy show in Russian and Ukrainian); Freedom Hall, Hr 800-2,500
www.freedomhall.com.ua


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.




Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Going Out Guide: Friday, Feb. 10 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/sevendays/spec/detail/122161/ Special Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:12:19 +0200 Editor’s Note: Planning a night out has just got easier.

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Subscription No. 6, “Violin Music,” Ilian Gytnets (violin) of Moldova and Ukraine’s National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, playing Sibelius, Beethoven; National Philharmonic; 7 p.m., Hr 40-110.
www.filarmonia.com.ua/en

Mariya Lipinska (mecco-soprano), Vitaliy Chikirov (baritone), Koshuba on organ performing Caccini, Bach, Handel, Shubert, Frank, Donizetti; House of Organ Music, 7:30 p.m., Hr 20-50.
www.organhall.kiev.ua

“Classics on Fridays,” with Olga Rivniak and her students (violin); Master Klass, 8 p.m., Hr 40.
masterklass.org


Movies

“My week with Marilyn” (see our review here) - (in Ukrainian), Biographical Drama; Zhovten and others, 6 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Hr 15-60
www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua


Live Music

Motor’rolla & Red Rocks (rock); Docker Pub, 10 p.m., Hr 75
www.docker.com.ua

Bangladesh Orchestra & Crazy Train (rock covers); Docker’s ABC, 10 p.m., Hr 75
www.abc.docker.com.ua

Crazy Train; Porter Pub, 8 p.m., free Without Limits (pop-rock); Art Club 44, 10 p.m., Hr 50
www.porter.com.ua


Clubs

Crazy Cabaret with Burlesque Show Girls; Bionica club, 10 p.m., Hr 30-50 for females, Hr 50-70 for males
www.bionicaclub.com.ua

RU.Music party; Seven Music Club, 10 p.m., Hr 50 for female, Hr 100 for male
www.se7en.com.ua

DJ Anastacia Dance Show; Party Room, 11 p.m., Hr 50 for females, Hr 100 for males
www.partyroom.com.ua

Myasorubka with DJ Mad Dog (Italy); Cinema Club, 11 p.m., Hr 100
cinemaclub.kiev.ua


Theater

A Wife is a Wife (scenes from Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov); Franko Ukrainian Drama Theater, 7 p.m., Hr.15-170

ft.org.ua

Don Quixote. The year 1938 (drama); Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater; 7 p.m., Hr 35-75
www.rusdram.com.ua

Playing a clavicorn (love story); Koleso Theater; 7 p.m.; Hr 60
www.koleso.teatr.kiev.ua

Dangerous liaisons (drama); Drama & Comedy Theater on the left bank of Dnipro; 7 p.m.; Hr 70
www.drama-comedy.kiev.ua

Sen-Jermen’s mirror (Comedy by Boris Akunin); Kiev Academic Drama Theater on Podol, 7 p.m., Hr 70
www.theatreonpodol.com


Show

The Crazy Horse (see our review here) (French cabaret); Kyiv National Academic Theater of Operetta, 3:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 8:30 p.m., Hr 300-1,600
operacomua.colocall.com


For tickets online, please visit
kvytky.ua, parter.ua, freedomhall.com.ua,
bilethouse.com.ua, karabas.com, or biletik.ua.





Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome – you can write to the lifestyle team at ls@kyivpost.com.]]> Microsoft Ukraine asks ex.ua delete pirate copies of its products http://www.kyivpost.com/news/guide/guidenews/detail/122148/ News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:40 +0200
"Numerous statements of ex.ua about cooperation with rights holders made us think that the Web site would fight against violations of the legislation on its servers by itself," reads the statement.

According to Microsoft Ukraine, the service's management must take measures to prevent the uploading of illegal content to its servers.

On Jan. 31, police shut down the ex.ua site for violations of intellectual property rights. The site's domain was blocked for two days.

The investigation into the criminal case is now underway.

On Feb. 3, ex.ua resumed work, but some information previously on it is not yet available.

The Interior Ministry of Ukraine stated that Microsoft Ukraine was one of the companies that initiated the opening of the criminal case against ex.ua.

Later Microsoft Ukraine said that it has nothing to do with the opening of the criminal case.]]>