New performance "Snufflery" Youth drove us. Director Konstantin Bogomolov is looking for hidden meanings in Soviet shrines In the Tretyakov Gallery in the hall of Soviet painting there is a strange picture. Called "the ball flew." The author is the artist Lucishkin. Written in 1926. In the picture there is a desert yard, clamped by two houses crawling upwards, a lonely girl in the center of the courtyard and a red balloon soaring in an indifferent gray sky.

“Recently, I have re -read a lot - familiar texts suddenly turned out to be almost unfamiliar,” says the poet, prose writer, essayist Linor Goralik The beauty of the re-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald (like some other authors of his generation) lies in the fact that the “acute reliability”, which once was such an important component of their texts, melted and exhausted, remained only echoes.

Not about love. “Do not believe this bitch from the apartment 23” - a breakthrough in “Female” series. It seems that women are tired of making themselves from themselves that they want to be free and “score” on a reputation See the modern Holly Golitley - the dream of the fan of "breakfast at Tiffany." This, of course, is not about fake Holly from the cinema, but about the real one, from the book.

Rock in DNA. The most interesting rock music is developing where it is embedded in national culture All the time somehow it turns out that the most interesting rock scene is in England, around it and in America. In Scotland and Ireland, she is with a tangible national color. Here is such a Scottish girl Shirley Menson. She worked in the Angelfish group, powerfully, but briefly lived.

Dictators in life and on the screen. The next film project of the inadvertent British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen, the film “Dictator”, reached out much more serious paintings on the same topic: dictators and riot, the arbitrariness of the upper reaches and the protest of the lower classes.