I love Broadway. I’ve lived within a few steps of it for the past twenty years and nearly always smile when my foot touches it. However, after spending some time on Kreshatik, the “Broadway of Kiev,” several differences jumped out at me. Here is a list: 1. On Kreshatik, Kievans…
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My dear friend Andy Selsberg has come out with a new book, You Are Good at Things: A Checklist. I’ve known Andy since college, and have always admired his writing and his existentially quirky observations about life and the universe. Anyone who had the good fortune to witness his amazing performances as “Citizen Truth” in the 1990s at Todo Con Nada…
I just finished watching the film Dersu Uzala on the 100th anniversary of the death of the protagonist. It’s one of my favorites, and I’ve tried to watch it every few years ever since I first stumbled upon it in 1990. It tells the story of a Russian explorer who surveys the wilderness north of Vladivostok in the years between…
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Background First metro was in London, 1863, then Paris (1900), and Budapest (1902). There were several attempts under the tsars to build a metro to relieve congestion, but to no avail. Only in the 1930s did the country give the project serious thought. It is said that citizens joined on…
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One of hundreds of great stories my father has shared with me… ——– Change Your Point of View by Joe Gracia You’ve probably heard of Stephen Covey, author of “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” He uses the word paradigm a lot, which simply means a belief, or a point of…
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One of my favorite songs is Дождь (Rain), and so to pass the time one night (and because I had just finished reading an extraordinary book on translation), I tried my hand at bringing it into English. It’s by the 1980s Russian rock group DDT. The group was an underground music sensation…
