BMG A quality guide to the passions of intelligent musicians from the popular duo Death in Vegas in the late nineties: confident stylizations of psychedelic rock, folk, old-fashioned break beat and other antiques. Some of the songs—especially “Diving Horses” with Dot Allison on vocals—are downright beautiful.

“Artistic enamels in traditional China” until the end of January “New Year’s Ikebana” Sogenu School. December 27-29

“Russian project: Traditions of estate architecture” Photographs of Russian estates. until January 13

203 68 03, M. Bronnaya, 27/14 ⑧ Mayakovskaya, Mon-Sun 11.00-21.30 The store is located opposite the “Window to Paris”. Unlike its neighbor, “Details” are more popular with women who are fond of minimalism. “Accents” are sold here for them. You put one of these in a room and all other things turn into bourgeois spillikins.

And then I got to the center, because this is always the case for me: when I look for the Kremlin, I invariably end up at Kursky Station. Actually, I should have gone to the Kursky station, and not to the center, but I always went to the center to look at the Kremlin at least once: anyway, I think I won’t see any Kremlin, but will go straight to the Kursky station. VENEDIKT EROFEEV Moscow - Petushki

Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha, USA, 2002 (dubbed) A rock-toothed squirrel cracks a nut on the Arctic ice, and a total cold snap sets in. The animals flee to the south, but the mammoth, sloth, Chukchi and tiger go in the opposite direction. For the little ones. Cinema Center (Small Hall), Luxor Mon December 23 – Sun January 5; Kinoplex on Leninsky, Entuziast Fri 27 December – Thu 2 January; 5 stars Sun 5 January

On December 28, the School of Modern Play theater will host the premiere of the play “Bad Advice” based on Grigory Oster. It's called "Folk-Rock-Rap-Pop Fantasy for Growing Up Kids" - it sounds scary, but in fact it's just an ordinary rocker. To the accompaniment of a live ensemble, the artists will sing in chorus and sing and dance. It’s worth the risk: “Bad advice” is good in itself, and all sorts of songs and dances can hardly spoil them.

Jacques Fader, UK,

François Ozon, France, 2002 Starring Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant (dubbed) On Christmas Eve, the patriarch of the family is stabbed in the back with a knife in his own bedroom. One of the eight women who ended up in the villa on the occasion of the holiday is a murderer. In a house covered in snow, with a jammed gate, a stalled car engine and a cut telephone wire, cut off from the world, they begin their own investigation.

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Galla Abdel Fattah Painting from Egypt. until January 10

dy around the Christmas tree on the summer veranda, dancing, vodka and champagne without restrictions. A place at a table is 170 USD. (price includes refreshments). 23.00 Vermeule “Adventures of Electronics”; at the end of the concert there is dancing. The concert starts at 2.00, a place at a table is 2500 rubles. (by reservation only, the price includes champagne, fruits, sweets), entrance after 1.00 – 500 p., 23.00 Woodstock WK?, “Friday” (Ukraine).

Pavel Lungin, France-Russia, 2002 Starring Vladimir Mashkov, Maria Mironova, Andrei Krasko From a researcher in a rabbit hat, Platon Makovsky turns into a Russian oligarch - with all the attendant circumstances: with enemies from the authorities, with villas in France, with killers on the roofs and with elephants at birthday parties. Lungin makes an attempt to talk about the oligarchs not as enemies of the people, but as interesting people with an interesting fate.

April 5 – premiere of “Candid Polaroids”. Even the usherettes like the performance with a scene of a dead homosexual masturbating

“Arkhangelskoye Estate: History and Art Collections” Western European and Russian painting, graphics, art porcelain, bronze, furniture, books, historical relics originating from the collections of the owners of the Arkhangelskoye estate in the 18th – early 20th centuries, princes Golitsyn and Yusupov. Office wing, until the end of January Vladimir Gorislavtsev “Canals and bridges of St. Petersburg.” Ceramics.