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28 octobre 2009

Theatre Night!

Bravo, bravo, city of my heart! White Night at the Theatre! What a fantastic idea. Click here for the programme of what's on where, curtesy of Nine O'Clock. You're pretty much spoiled for choice though I would be pulled between the Comedy Theatre with...

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26 octobre 2009

One thing remained - language.

Dear Everyone, Nothing can tear me away from the texts of Herta Muller. What an incredible writer she is. How very scarred and tortured are her thoughts, how cruel her past and how courageous her determination and drive. The very fact that she is alive...

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25 octobre 2009

The glass walls of a gallery

This from The Diplomat: Something in the air Storm the palace! Raid the prison! Burn down the disco! Revolution is stirring at the Unicredit Pavilion At the time of writing Romania’s streets are not yet packed with striking judges, teachers and doctors...

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23 octobre 2009

Cathedral Plaza - Telenovelo Extraordinarâ

Today in Nine O'Clock: Oprescu calls on “Millenium” to stop building Cathedral Plaza 'Yesterday, the mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, announced that he had summoned the company Millenium Building Development SRL to stop work at the controversial Cathedral...

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18 octobre 2009

The colour of laughter under greyness of communism

On this Sunday morning in my dear Hamden, an excellent article from Spiegel got me hunting for old jokes I remember from Rutzi and Milla of the infamously silly Graf Bobby (Count Bobby in English) and his best friend Baron Rudi, the daft anecdotes so...

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18 octobre 2009

Brasov strikes again

From Nine O'Clock: Musica Coronensis Festival at Brasov The bell of the tower from Piata Sfatului will toll again on Saturday, after over 50 years. The event is part of a music festival organized by the Evangelical Church from Romania, Brasov Parish and...

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14 octobre 2009

Oskar Pastior

Oskar Pastior(1927-2006) was born in Sibiu, Roumania, speaking the out-moded German of his fore-fathers. He said that he had this multilingualism to thank not only for the insights it gave him into the possibilities of writing, but above all the associated...

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14 octobre 2009

another article on Herta Muller

From evz.ro, another marvellous article on Herta Muller.

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11 octobre 2009

Teodor Maries - Day 70 of hunger strike for truth

Dear Everyone, Teodor Maries has kept my thoughts occupied these last few days. I have tried to find as much information about the chairman of 21st December Association, but there is very little in English.The fact that this man, now on his 70th day of...

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11 octobre 2009

Légion d'honneur for Doina Cornea

More great news! Why could Roumania not award Doina Cornea a prestigious prize of their own. What is the highest honour one can bestow on a Roumanian citizen? The cross of the Royal House? How long has that existed and who else has won it? This is somewhat...

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8 octobre 2009

Herta Muller awarded Nobel Prize

What marvellous news! This excellent author, so persecuted under Roumanian communism, heavily censored and spied upon, followed even as far as Germany, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rarely have I heard of anyone who deserves it more...

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4 octobre 2009

Roumanian theatre in Paris

Le Théâtre de l’Orme (www.amsorme.com ) est un petit théâtreparisien niché dans les restes d’un vieil immeuble, lui-même àl’intérieur d’une cour d’un autre immeuble. Ce petit lieu jouit d’uneatmosphère d’exception, grâce d’un côté à sa forme toute à faitoriginale,...

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4 octobre 2009

Bucharest saved...at least for now

Please, please go and see this blog and read the following: It is wonderful, wonderful, wooooonderful that voices can be heard, that there are people who really do care about the future of Bucharest, its scars and its tears. A demonstration (pretty violent)...

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25 septembre 2009

Is E. Europe being dumped?

From the New York Times: Letter from Europe Obama Ends a 'Special Relationship' By JUDY DEMPSEY Published: September 16, 2009 BERLIN — It is easy to miss the turnoff to Redzikowo, a tiny Polish settlement not far from the Baltic coast city of Slupsk....

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15 septembre 2009

Nicu

And so, Nicu has finally closed his eyes for the last time. He died at 16h45 this afternoon following cardiac arrest, with Mandita at his bedside, just as she has always been since he was admitted to hospital four months ago. Roumania has lost many artists...

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9 septembre 2009

The houses that cry...

So, it happened (please click and read article from Le Petit Journal). They killed it. The house at str. Maria Rosetti, 38. The investor that bought it had it ripped down illegally last weekend - no permission to demolish and without the knowledge of...

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8 septembre 2009

From New York Times: Lipscani

How nice to see Bucharest portrayed positively in a foreign newspaper for once! Bravo, NYT....and, by the way, it's true! Lipscani looks great! The roads are slowly but surely being resurfaced and the bars, cafés and restaurants are highly recommended....by...

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4 septembre 2009

Sister-matically Boozy Susie

Alleged 'Drunk' Nun Appears In Court By ANDREW RAMOS wpix.com 1:45 PM EDT, September 4, 2009 HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (WPIX) - A Long Island nun who is accused of polishing off a half bottle of gin and then going for a wild joyride where she nearly killed a group...

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1 septembre 2009

We will remember them...

They shall not grow old, As we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, And in the morning,We will remember them. Lest We Forget.

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31 août 2009

Debate of 70th Anniversary

This from the Guardian, whilst I wait for a certain student to show up for class (Mjo, hurry up!)... The war? Nothing to do with Stalin, says Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev Luke Harding in Moscow guardian.co.uk , Sunday 30 August 2009 20.30 BST Joseph...

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