My Love Affair with Marriage
July 11, 2022
As an entertainment journalist in the Hollywood Foreign Press, it was my pleasure to interview Signe Baumane, an artist from Latvia, writer/director of the animated feature My Love Affair with Marriage, that premiered June 11 ...
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Russia’s Cultural Stunner: St. Petersburg
April 22, 2020
I miss the Soviet hammer and sickle. When I first visited Russia – then called the Soviet Union – the symbol was everywhere, along with those treacly-romantic billboards of Vladimir Lenin reading to children: the patriarch ...
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How a popular children’s cartoon-show set in Siberia illustrates the diversity of perspective
March 11, 2020
The fifth-most watched YouTube video in the world of all time is an episode of a Russian cartoon for little children. The formidable title of being the “most viewed non-music video” belongs to it as ...
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