R. Nuriev 12-01-2016 * * * * I'm almost out of the spoon game competition Read my resume There's nothing about me in it I'm screaming around midnight Something unclear But convincingly Not afraid to think about yourself What am I supposed to be, an element of the British rock invasion?

It is difficult to approach Victor Pelevin's latest books as novels. There is a certain genre shift in them that makes critics bored, colleagues indignant, and ordinary readers immersed with interest in the same fictional world as last fall.

Mikhail Pozharsky talks about experiments that reveal the wonderful properties of the arithmetic mean . "In 1907, an article by Francis Galton entitled “Vox Populi” was published in the scientific journal NATURE. It was about a curious experiment in which participants (about 800 people in total) were asked to guess the weight of a bull. This happened by secret ballot, where everyone wrote their guess on a card. Among the participants were butchers and farmers.

Beautiful nerd ... and the soul was formless and empty, - reached for the lamp to use the verb “to light” flashed through my mind and illuminated my notebook, and opened the notebook so that speech arose, and said, “Lord,” so He could begin. Vladimir Gandelsman His poems over the four decades of their writing, collected in a solid volume of selected “The Mind of Words” (M.: Vremya, 2015), are a history of self-education and reflection. And very personal poetry.

- Oh my friend, Arkady Nikolaich! - exclaimed Bazarov, - I ask you one thing: don’t speak beautifully. Turgenev. Fathers and sons We live in special times. They probably always said that, every time was special. And yet. As Spengler wrote about the “decline of Europe,” Fukuyama about the “end of history,” and Stravinsky about the “end of classical harmony,” so today we can say, if not the end, then at least a pause in the history of serious democratic music.

The client tells a story. Can we settle on the idea that the meaning of a story is the story itself? Can we think that the client is enough of himself? Is it true that the recipient of the story is its witness, and not its co-author? No. The story is created by the listener, and the storyteller observes it. By telling a story, the client creates a collection of signs that point to each other and lead nowhere.

Three steps down When you read Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” once again, you are perplexed: how? and just? This is the book that, by the fact of its publication, became a literary and not only event, a breakthrough in the mid-sixties of the last century? Can't be!

Vlad Gagin about the book of poems by Mikhail Aizenberg “Certificates and Dances”.

Is opera still alive? It's like she's alive. There are many opera houses, old operas are staged, even new ones are composed. However, let’s take a “cynically impartial” look at the current life of opera. Imagine an adult attending an opera production for the first time (including in a cinema). For example, something super famous, Carmen, La Traviata or The Queen of Spades.

Curator of the additional education program “Graphic Design. Basic course" Arseny Sergeev - about how classes are held, about the success of his students and about the secrets of professional growth. — Tell us about your students? — These are quite successful, accomplished people, as a rule, office employees who want to change their profession.

On January 19, the Stanislavsky Electrotheater will host a presentation of the new issue of the Blue Sofa magazine - about violence in modern culture. Excerpts from some of the articles in the issue will be published on Sigma. The first text is the foreword by the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Elena Petrovskaya. The modern world is full of violence.