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Lisa, Valentin & The White Rabbit
16 June 2016
If you’re looking for the rabbit hole you’ll find it at 3 Pirotska str. White Rabbit Tattoo Studio has been living there for about six months now. If you’re already thinking about the wonderland, stop – the name of the studio comes from the Jefferson Airplane song … which also features Alice and a white rabbit but it’s not the same. The owners of White Rabbit are Lisa and Valentin whom we met and instantly liked. - .
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Three cheers for Jägerhof
16 June 2016
photos Ralitsa Dimitrova
The cold hand of the refrigerator holds at least three reasons to say "Cheers", but this one here is a major one - Bavarian, dreggy and has so fuller taste, that quickens the clock to the end of the work day. After the first sip of the bottled live beer Jägerhof, which came here from Plovdiv, we're going to say just one thing - you always have to have at least one opener on your desk. -
A Ton for Lunch
2 June 2016
This tone is not in the weight, it's in a can. But simply to pull the cover is not enough - to cook tuna you don't need a kitchen, but it takes imagination. Here are two recipes without a single leaf of lettuce. -
The Lord of the Night
2 June 2016
text Violeta Ivanova
"It works in Amsterdam, why don't we apply it here as well?" - there's no way you haven't heard this sentence before. This time, however, we're not talking about the legalisation of forbidden plants and profession - we're focusing on the Netherlands' night scene which now has its own mayor. -
Massive Cleaning
26 May 2016
Join the Let's Clean Bulgaria day on 4 June. -
Draw me a letter
19 May 2016
text Natalia Ivanova
She's about to go to Fonthsmith - a leading type foundry creating fonts, where our girl Krista Radoeva works as a creator of the "simpliest and most effective way to communicate". Her way is a long journey, which starts with the Graphic design and passes through a prize of a young talent and the role of a lecturer at different conferences and worshops in Bulgaria, UK and USA. Now she's coming here as a lecturer of Better Lettering at Typofest MMXVI in Sofia and Plovdiv between between 24th and 26th of May. -
Star Wars: Episode MMXIV
12 May 2016
Our headline is sci-fi but we're talking straight science here. Well, plus a bit of art in colourful ink, as shows the short sleeve of our space hero - Dr. Matt Taylor, astrophysicist. -
Nikolay Pachev: 5-Year Fashion Forecast
5 May 2016
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Sealed in a bottle
5 May 2016
We're singing this variation of Sting's song, while we're getting ready for Spring Wine Tasting in the middle of the month. The singer's name here isn't a coincidence - part of his personal cellar is coming to Bulgaria to say "goodbye" to it's corks in the name of the full glass of wine. -
Come, Fool Us
28 April 2016
When the pavement breaks under your feet, Lego people become soldiers, The Alien hitchikes, probably Leon Keer has passed on the street moments before you - a Dutch with a 3D paintbrush. -
Market Values
21 April 2016
We love bazaars not (only) for the shopping but because they shorten distances - since they exis, we've encountered, touched and tried a huge list of Bulgarian brands that really know what they're doing. At least 50 of them are coming to the green SoBazaar this weekend - we made this shortlist of 8 that we've never talked about before. -
Little London
21 April 2016
If we ever say "goodbye" to Bulgaria, we'll miss a thousand things and at least half of them live in the fridge. The same applies to British people who have exchanged London for Sofia, so, no surprise - there's now a place on Krakra street, where we can pay with lev for products priced in pound. -
Five in the air
21 April 2016
We are about to give them a high five for opening a new skate park in Sofia and excuse them for the trivial name, when we see the inversion. "Five high, because we're on the last floor and it's high", Rumen Gerasimov says, while we're searching for more quiet place in the creative riot around Culture Lab. -
Fear and Craft in Sofia
7 April 2016
Drinking one bottle of Flying Dog beer is never just having a cold beer. It's also a good way to become an art collector. How? Just take the label, made of Ralph Steadman. Yes, the same Steadman, who is Hunter Thompson's right hand. -
Straight to the stars: Mathieu Bitton
31 March 2016
photo Keil Lowres
Photographer, art director, designer with a Grammy nomination, knight of the arts and letters in his country, France. He also works on soundtracks, directs movies, and photographs people from Mick Jagger to Lana del Rey. Today, we write emails with him because of his exposition with Lenny Kravitz - they both will show their photography. For the stories inside, for the best instant click on the streets of New York, and for the harsh, but needed advice from Quincy Jones, we talk through several time zones. -
Breakfasts of champions
2 March 2016
It's Friday, 8:20 in the morning, and the door of G8 Cultural Centre is opening and closing every 30 seconds. We're here not for early cinema, but for the Sofia edition of Creative Mornings - a meeting that's happening around the globe. For the fifth time, in our city as well. -
Every day, yoga
25 February 2016
Where is the place of yoga between the emails, the career and the everyday pulse of the city? Right here, in Santosha studio, so take a deep breath. -
Snowkite: flying in winter
11 February 2016
Written by: Vera Gotseva Photography: Milena Tzoneva
We talk with Atanas Rusev - a kitesurf instructor in summer, a snowkite enthusiast in winter.
Atanas Rusev is one of the bravest men I ever knew – a man with no social mask, who has discovered that the true freedom is to follow yourself and to become one with the nature. Most of the people know him for his efforts to preserve the virginity of the Bulgarian Coral Beach; others have been trained in kitesurfing by him, and third had courage enough to step into unexplored caves on the bottom of the Earth with him.
We will tell these stories some other time, but meanwhile Nasko lifts us up in the air with his snowkite, while the Vitosha plateau is still covered with snow. -
Studio in a backpack: Kalin Nikolov
11 February 2016
He's composing music for theater - he has two Askeer Awards and two Ikar Awards behind his back, and for the last year he's composed for six productions. We meet with him to talk about all that and why his studio is the smallest in the world. -
The drinks from life: Dragomir Ivanov
28 January 2016
For one of our most talented mixologist, the worst would be for us to like every cocktail that's on his mind - because it would mean he's not brave enough in his experimentation. Today, we sit with him and instead of tasting drinks, we have a few fast shots of stories - about his beginning as a barman, about his childhood memories and about a barbeque in Argentina.
