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Sun Is Shining In Banatski Sokolac

July 17, 2008

This just in: Avram brings the news of Bob Marley monument to be put up in Banatski Sokolac, a town in north east Serbia. The monument will be uncovered on August 23rd during the music festival Rock Village.
The monument, which is supposed to be the first monument to this musician on European soil, is not [...]

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Yippee-ki-yay…

January 18, 2008

Very much aware of the danger that lurks everytime Kusturica is mentioned on this blog, and in any kafana politics conversation, for that matter, this recent case of Kusta’s insanity is too much for me to let it go by unnoticed:
„God forgive Bruce Willis for all his earthy sins that he commited on and off [...]

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Are you ready for BlogOpen?

October 14, 2007

Because if you are, more than a half spots available have already been reserved, so you better hurry up and apply – November 10th, Novi Sad.

What? You don’t know what BlogOpen is? I presume you have been living under a rock lately, in which case you might know the whereabouts of Mladic, and reading this [...]

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Festivals on steroids

August 24, 2007

Is it just me or the festivals in Serbia are getting seriously big last couple of years? You can read it in the papers – every year a new ‘people who were there’ record is broken and every year it feels like it’s getting crazier and wilder? Let’s start from the beggining.
1. Exit 2007 – [...]

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Stadium Arcadium

June 28, 2007

From Wikipedia: ”...the [RHCP] album is written mostly about people coming together because of music, which the title track sums up, while several songs focus directly on love.”
In theory, that is.
In theory, the organizers of the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, city of Indjija, Exit Team and Live nation announced that the organization of [...]

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Blog Open: the first blogger festival in Serbia

April 12, 2007

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 to be postponed, and in [...]

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Belgrade rock concerts: recent history and near future

March 16, 2007

Since the Japanese reenactors mystery is resolved, let’s get to merrier subjects.
Ok, so the Iron Maiden concert was talk of the town these days: Dragan says he had a great time, despite the sound at Sajam and the organization of the concert was awful. Dinke had a good time but also complains about the [...]

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Belgrade Film Festival recap – FEST 2007

March 5, 2007

Another Belgrade FEST came to an end, so i think it’s time to post impressions here.
I managed to see a lot of movies this year, most of them in Sava Centar. This was maybe a mistake because the movies that played in other cinemas, Dvorana kulturnog centra, Dom sindikata and Kinoteka were smaller movies that [...]

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Heard it through the grapevine

February 11, 2007

(updated – scroll to bottom)
Rumor has it that several great bands will visit Serbia this summer, even if we exclude Exit festival out of the equation.
First there is this ‘Road Fest’ in Zrenjanin, with following line up:
Foo Fighters, The Prodigy, Jamiroquai, Tricky, Motorhead, Joe Cocker, The Cult and Underworld. They already started selling ticket even [...]

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Chinese movie “Summer Palace” banned in Serbia

November 30, 2006

Just minutes before the movie Summer Palace (Serbian: Letnja Palata) that was supposed to open Novi festival autorskog filma in Dvorana Kulturnog Centra cinema rolled, Serbian authories came to the rescue and pulled the movie off the Festival because apparently China threatened to freeze all diplomatic activities with Serbia if the movie is shown. Infact, [...]

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The 46th Guca trumpet festival

August 30, 2006

Guca recap can be found here. Beth Kampschror gives her impressions here (via YG)
Most will have heard of the Guca Festival by now. It earns its place here at the Belgrade blog on account of its increasing popularity with foreign tourists and its branding potential.

Recorded in Guca last year by Sini Vlaisavljevic
The Guca Festival is [...]

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Serbian summer news – hot or not?

August 26, 2006

Serbian summer news – hot or not?
It is often said that the summer is bad season for some major happenings, breaking news and other similar stuff that would interest a keen news reader in any way. That seemed like a nice period to take some time off from blogging and relax, prefferably away from home, [...]

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The Beer Festival report

August 22, 2006

The Fourth Belgrade Beer Festival ended on Sunday. Organisers are yet to announce the figures (will be posted here later) but this year the blazing sunshine ensured that punters were keener than ever to get their hands on a pint.
Apart from savouring 30 different types of beer, activities included the treasure hunt – crates of [...]

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Belgrade Beer Festival

July 24, 2006

Organisers have announced that this years Belgrade Beer Festival will take place from the 16th August to the 20th August. All the ‘usual’ beers will be in attendance but this year the selection will be more varied (hooray) and for the first time fruit flavoured beers will also be on sale. Prices will be cheap [...]

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Tesla celebrations

July 20, 2006

Something that we sadly haven’t had time to cover here at the Belgrade blog is Nikolai Tesla’s 150th anniversary celebration so this is our attempt to make up for this.
Internationally, that is outside Serbia, monuments and statues have been unveiled such as the one within a stones throw of Niagara Falls in the United States [...]

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More foreign tourists in Serbia

July 19, 2006

Today while surfing on the net, I found one article that really brought me joy. It is from B92, so enjoy:
More and more tourists in Serbia
19 July 2006 | 10:48 | Source: B92
BELGRADE—Compared to the same time last year, this year there has been an increase of three percent in tourists from abroad in Serbia.
Also, [...]

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An Exit festival recap

July 11, 2006

By popular demand from La Lara, here come my impressions of this year’s Exit festival.
Ticket price was a bit higher this year, and the line up was very poor in my opinion, so i was afraid that it wasn’t going to be as fun as the last years. Was it due to better organization, due [...]

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Serbia’s time capsule from the nineties part one: Air max Serbia

July 6, 2006

Every country has had its symbols of an era. And i’m not talking about the presidents that ruled at one time or another, nor the events that made history. It’s the little things that stick in your mind and come back to you when you think of some decade for example. Some show on the [...]

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Belgrade Sun

June 17, 2006

When people ask what time of year is best to visit Belgrade the answer is that there are events going on all year round. The peak of Summer is not always the most pleasant time to be in any city and the same is true of Belgrade although Belgrade does have a great advantage in [...]

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