TEXT: ALICE BY What to drink: the most popular cocktail Miari with soju on pomelo (430 rubles), “Keiju sour” (350 rubles), or better yet, try them all - there are seven of them Who goes: friends of the owners of Crabs Are Coming, Koreans and people who are partial to good drinks How it differs from Crabs Are Coming: size (smaller than “Crabs”), menu (they serve Korean ssams - pork or duck wrapped in lettuce).

An undertaking that stands out for its thorough approach even among the meticulous Moscow publishing houses: Amicables cassettes and records are packaged in hand-sewn bags, appliques are made, the releases themselves are painted with multi-colored paints - in general, they strive to make each copy (with an average circulation of 30 copies - the gold standard for modern DIY labels) unique.

What to drink: classics reworked in a new way - “York Sour” (500 rub.), “Story Colada” (500 rub.) Who goes: the same people as in “Ugolek” - a difficult-to-describe mixture of a wealthy audience, those who go to all the fashionable places, and unexpected characters. They say that former DPR Prime Minister Alexander Boroday was seen here .

restaurants On Neglinnaya Street, not far from the luxurious Tsvetnoy Boulevard, a cheburek restaurant “Chir-chir” opened. It would seem - so what? And the fact that no other new project so clearly reflects the feeling of the end of an era and the imminent collapse in the capital’s restaurant industry.

Time travel with Ethan Hawke movie In this world you can move between the past and the future. This is what a special agent does to bring justice. His latest task is to recruit his past self and apprehend a mysterious criminal who is always one step ahead. Australian sci-fi explores the well-worn phenomenon of a member of the judiciary's time travel, but offers something to replace it.

TEXT: PAVEL THE GROZNY Varvara Gornostaeva, editor-in-chief of the Corpus publishing house: “I heard about Donna Tartt when almost all of us today’s team were still at the Inostranka publishing house,” this was probably in 2005. We were thinking about the publication of Tartt’s first book, “The Secret History,” which, immediately after its appearance (in 1992 - editor’s note), entered American literature as a great novel.

“In the USSR there was a shortage of visual images: the stools were the same for everyone, the table was just like this, no more” — When did you start collecting your collection? What was the first thing? — First of all, I’ll make a reservation that I’m not a collector: I mostly borrow things from people only for the duration of the exhibition. I found the first object at the end of 1994 - my friend and I went to remove things from his dacha for the winter.

Age: 36 years old Made: high chair Why: to avoid getting sick “This is a workplace where the main principle is not to get tired while working at the computer, but to change your posture. Constantly sitting on a chair is harmful to the body and generally unnatural for a person. But it just so happens that we sit a lot. As a result, every fifth person develops back diseases and other ailments. In addition, my chair helps with communication.

“You can simply and quickly make something from mass production. I created an automatic ax sharpener, I got a new idea" leave. This is not good - if it didn’t work out for you, it doesn’t mean that everything is not true. I have seen instructions in Russian in the form of articles where the procedure is described completely incorrectly, so, in fact, it will not be possible to repeat it. Based on these considerations, I published the video.

INTERVIEW: NIKITA VELICHKO — Why did you decide to publish an expanded version of “Electroshock” and not write a separate sequel? — “Electroshock” has been translated into several languages, but the book has not yet been published in English. I decided to publish it myself in the UK.

What to drink: Bird on a Wire based on thyme alcohol - 600 rubles, Chinese Market Martini with gin and Chinese barberry syrup - 550 rubles, Old Fashioned - 500 rubles. Who goes: a variety of people, but always wealthy - from expats to businessmen and fashionistas How it differs from Lucky Noodles: Created as a secret bar under the guise of a cheap noodle shop.

BOOKS There is an unspoken quota for high literature on the Big Book shortlist. It is very good if the text was originally published in a thick magazine of liberal orientation, represents the view of emigration and is imbued with deep disgust for the Soviet period of history. Makushinsky’s novel ideally meets all the requirements: the author’s German registration, the Znamya magazine, the phrase “I’m used to shooting at the red stars with a gun”; try to beat him with a prize.

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Let’s do it this way, not another way.” And he answered: “You don’t need to focus only on the arrangement, it’s just a wrapper. We need to look at the root. There is the main thing, but how we present it is secondary.” Therefore, here you can do whatever you want - although they tell me that I have an interesting way of reading. And English speakers think that I have a unique style of texts, which is not entirely standard for them - but at the same time catchy.

Love in Hard Times movie A complex story about the problems of family life. They are a married couple who live in New York. He owns a restaurant, she wants to go back to college. Everything doesn’t go as in fairy tales, but we have to try. “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” is the result of an experimental approach to cinema by the young director Ned Benson, who first made two films about the same story, from the perspective of a man and a woman, and then edited it all into one film.