All Kolyada THEATER For the entire second half of January, the sign of the Na Strastnoy theater center can be replaced with the Kolyada Theater logo. Every day, performances by the most authentic Russian theater, which regularly glorifies the Ural theater in Europe, will be played here, new plays by Nikolai Kolyada and his students will be read, and a documentary film about this phenomenon will be shown.

The magnum opus of one of Detroit's smartest electronic musicians is two-plus hours of unfocused house and semi-improvisational techno. The music here is wrapped in ingenious spirals; You're unlikely to dance to these ten-minute suites, but watching Parrish shamanize with dry rhythms, scraps of singing phrases and scraps of old disco, hinting at the ambivalent state of American society, is terribly interesting.

A Zen exhibition, ideally in keeping with the spirit of the times EXHIBITIONS A clearly articulated statement in Gut’s style: “Away from the dust.” This is the name of the exhibition opening in 2015, which, it seems, will be much harder for all residents of Russia than 2014. But the artist calls not to lose heart, but to seek peace in Zen reflections.

Hangover sweets during the New Year holidays CITY The Sweets Festival at VDNKh is held annually and is actually a trade union congress - here Russian and sometimes foreign manufacturers present their cakes, chocolate, pastries, marshmallows, sweets and any other goodies that can come to mind. All this can be tried, compared and bought.

From Thu 29/01 Hackers and other movie heroes of our time After a four-year break, Michael Mann returns to the world of adrenaline-fuelled thrillers. US and Chinese intelligence agencies are working together to capture an elusive group of cyber criminals. The only one who can help them is imprisoned hacker Nicholas, who exchanges his sentence for a deadly pursuit of villains around the world. The computer worm is played by Chris Hemsworth, incredibly handsome for the role, but that’s all Mann.

5 quotes from 2014 films that will sound inappropriate at the New Year's table “What are you thinking about? How do you feel? What have we done to each other? ("Gone Girl") “And now I’m going to die in the company of the biggest idiots in the Galaxy” (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) 3. “We have enough TVs and airplanes. We don't have enough food" (Interstellar) “I’ll always die now!” (“Bitter! 2”)

INTERVIEW: DANIEL TRABUN — You still have to explain why the phone needs a second screen using E Ink. For beautiful wallpapers and weather clocks? — For us, the second screen is not just a whim. I believe that the future lies in devices whose screens can be always on. Not only for our phone, but in general for all devices. Because the logic is simple: technologies and gadgets should make our lives more convenient and efficient.

Fainting Australian post-punk with a new album CONCERTS It’s not very often that Australian musicians come to Moscow - and even more so to Russia: in addition to Powerhouse, the group will play their anemic post-punk in both Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg, and all this a couple of weeks before the release of their new album. Their place of origin, Brisbane, cannot but put pressure on the chosen style of music - the great but little-noticed group The Go-Betweens came from there.

5 best spoilers of 2014 1. Frank Underwood threw Zoe Barnes under a train and became president Amy faked her disappearance to frame her husband for her murder. Joffie Lannister poisoned himself, Prince Oberyn and Gregor Clegane killed each other, Tyrion killed his father and escaped 5. Squirrel framed Thomas, he ends up behind bars The killer is a gardener, Carcosa does not exist

About the delights of life with a low IQ MOVIE The iconic comedy of the Farrelly brothers with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels has finally received a canonical sequel. 20 years later, a very aged couple of dunces sets off on a new adventure in search of love, family and a “pure laugh.” The past era has not in any way affected the mental abilities of the heroes - they still break reality with their intellect, despite new signs of the times, be it smartphones or the Internet.

Tue 30/12 – Tue 20/01 Cat in modern Russian art EXHIBITIONS It has been a long time since Moscow has seen more frivolous exhibitions, the essence of which is admiration and tenderness. Perhaps it would be even better if cats were simply placed in the Manege, who would paint exquisite abstract canvases in front of the public.

Alena Doletskaya, editor-in-chief of Interview: Can I have some vodka? Because I can't drink anything else, sorry. Sergei Shnurov, leader of the Leningrad group: I’ll drink fifty dollars. Doletskaya: Fifty dollars is half a liter? Shnurov: No, 50 grams. Doletskaya: What if it’s more? So you won't be able to do anything later? Shnurov: No, then I can do everything. Doletskaya: This is the part I would like to achieve, by the way. To have everything. This, by the way, is an important point.

Mon 12/01 – Thu 29/01 Creative courses for those who have not lost faith in the prospects of the CITY At the British Higher School of Design, winter intensive courses in creative specialties will be held throughout January. Each course is designed for seven days (plus one day off), and classes will last as a whole working day - from 11 am to 8 pm.

author: Cambridge professor, psychologist, historian of psychoanalysis, philologist and cultural scientist, who methodically publishes, if not bestsellers, then very resonant works, where well-known events of Russian history are wittily interpreted or little-known ones are brought to light (and also interpreted no less wittily): “Eros of the Impossible”, “Whiplash”, “Sodom and Psyche”.

A 700-page fundamental description of D-Day - the battle of the Allies with the Germans in the summer of 1944, the largest landing operation in world history and the key (for Western historians: otherwise the Red Army would have reached Normandy) event of the Second World War. From the author of “The Fall of Berlin” and “Stalingrad”, a meticulous historian and a very good storyteller - the kind of person who would be a guide on Poklonnaya Hill.