Internet and virtual worlds (defined both as communication tools – email, messenger, chat rooms, electronic libraries, electronic audio-visual libraries – and artistic media of expression) represent the trademark of the contemporary times, molding implicitly the cultural and social practices as we speak. Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not […]
Lessons on Joy from Carnival
La Plata, Argentina — On a crisp and cloudless, pre-autumnal night in the beginning of March, a little less than a week after Ash Wednesday and the close of Carnival, we stroll under stars that poke through the orange haze of the cities’ light pollution and the towering Eucalyptus trees lining the walkways of El […]
…and the times they are a changin: A Eurosceptic accepting the Euro
Major economic reforms have been taking place in Greece since the early 1990s and one of the strongest catalysts for these changes has been the Euro. In November 2001, the price of a return ticket from Pireaus to the island of Crete cost ten thousand drachmas. One year later, after the EU had officially converted […]
Soccer Fanatics
La Plata, Argentina — It is difficult to overstate the importance of soccer in Argentina. In Castellano, the dialect of Spainish specific to the River Platte and greater Buenos Aires province, you are not a supporter of your favorite soccer team, you are from that team. “I have been from Estudiantes before I […]
Theatrical and Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics in Romania Today
Miruna Runcan Theatrical and anti-theatrical stage aesthetics in Romania today If one wants to really understand the contemporary substance (general horizon, phenomena and/or directions) of the Romanian theatre stage today, a short historical approach is inevitable. As in many other Central and Eastern European cultural spaces, the modern Romanian theatre was dominated […]
MICHAEL JACKSON:
On the 19th of December, 2006, we celebrated one of the greatest achievements of all times: 25 years of an unbeaten record, 25 years of buying, listening and dancing to the exceptional muisc of the Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album (still the greatest selling album in the history of music). Michael Jackson has been in our […]