Attendees feel scammed over absence of promised star writer (and last-minute substitution of imposter) There are around 200 participants in attendance at the Kyiv Writers’ Conference who thought it worth…

The backstory of the lead-up to the axing Zoe, the news industry is changing so fast – PR Boss Bo Lard, CEO of the Kyiv Poster, is telling the paper’s…

Thusly, the firing news is broken Note to readers: There’s nothing funny about this; it’s a damn serious moment Says Boss Lard to Bret Boner: You couldn’t even come up…

Another French film week in Kyiv, a long time ago Yeah, it was a while ago; know what I mean? Something like Saturday, April 20, 2013, and the only thing…

What was “Mobius” about? Even raft of film reviews couldn’t say I mean, I saw the film, and I read the reviews – the first five or six that popped…

It’s New Jersey, 1984, and a fat-calved kid wearing dark short pants and a striped propeller cap, is playing in the park. His father, who’s just convinced him that he…

Enter, two naked demons, pointed tails and horns, black fur So you come in and it’s pretty nice, this place, Boris, the one with the wild boar’s head, starts saying…

Knock, knock… Who is it? Smith. Let him in. A lean taut man with dark-blond hair in his early thirties enters. He’s wearing a fedora and a light gray suit.…

The Journal of Manny Face, Installment 5 As seen at Tango Camp in Crimea during the May holidays, 2013 There are moments in Time when Time is suspended. We die…

And so it ends; or begins… “Milongueros” might have been a feature film – and as it opened, panning the dreary dusk hanging over a bleak Buenos Aires waterfront, Manny…