Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Turbo folk evolves

So you thought that this music genre can’t get any more ridiculous? Boy, were you wrong about that. Behold the incredible mashup of ancient oriental rhytme, robot dance, traditional Serbian style accordian, house-disco-tech-breakbeat elements, incredible post post post modernist scenery that even Spielberg wouldn’t be ashamed of, Bladerunner / Godfather

In the Beginning there was Kryptonite

If there’s something common to all the people around the world, it’s probably that cute eagerness to come up with the most hilarious excuses and alibis when facing their own responsibility for their misery is dangerously close to the point where they have to question their own good nature and

Solidarity

Today, on the official website of B92 a video appeared which is motivated from the recent assasination attempt on the Serbian journalist Dejan Anastasijevic. Interestingly, the attempt was made after Anastasijevic among others has published an article in the weekly Vreme about the profile of the recently arrested in Germany

Pro-Marijuana March in Belgrade

Also known as Global Ganja March, this manifestation is sort of traditional peacefull protest held in many cities around the globe aimed at legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana use. Even though i can’t find many arguments against decriminalization of hemp in Serbia, i would have to say that i can’t see

Serbs don’t need the broadband internet

At least that’s what we can conclude out from the press conference given by Dragana Curcic of Ministry for capital investments couple of days ago. (via Radionica, English short news here). According to her, we are ahead of Albania when it comes to broadband internet, but behind, well, everybody else

We love competition

Days of Belgrade have just started and one of the features is a new website covering Belgrade – Belgrade Blog. Since Belgrade 2.0 is also known in some places as Belgrade Blog i’m sure there’s going to be some confusion at first, but every competition is good, right. So far

In support of Dejan Anastasijevic – updated

Update: Five-minute protest took place today when few hundred people blocked the traffic in Belgrades’s busiest street Kneza Milosa for five minutes in protest against the attack on Dejan Anastasijevic. Protest happened simultaneously in 165 towns in Serbia and was organized by LDP. Update: One good article by Jasmina Tesanovic

Handke and Serbia

The Austrian author Peter Handke a highly contraversial personality in the european cultural scene, but mostly criticized for his appearance on the funeral of the former yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is also known for his positive attitude for the Serbs. Nowadays, it mostly very “modern” and “rational” to condemn Serbia

Why do “Only Fools And Horses” work so well in ex-Yu?

If one of the reasons behind the success of Alan Ford comic book was that it depicted fight against the corrupted system, than the reason for the cult status of Brithis sitcom Only Fools And Horses is of similar nature – just like Ian said in a comment to the

Blog Open: the first blogger festival in Serbia

The idea came, like all great ideas come, accidentally, when Marko and Pedja invited several Serbian bloggers to a small informal get-together in a cafe in Pancevo. The gathering failed because most of the invited bloggers, including myself couldn’t make it due to the Easter holidays. So the meeting had


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