New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Ak Bars of the KHL, somewhat to the disappointment of their fans, signed the Islanders’ jettisoned backup.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kazan, Central Russia, Russian Federation We were dropped outside the Yekaterinburg station and after some confusion, figured out the system and found ourselves standing beside the red "Ural" train bound for Moscow. The train was more basic than the Baikal train, there was certainly no DVD, but it was comfortable enough. Importantly, our provodnista was a...
Adrants (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Imagine if Ghost Writer got a little slicker and made friends with Cirque de Soleil, then they went on a Russian tour with hula hoops, tennis racquets and Day-Glo underpants.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
A decision to this effect was taken by the Executive Committee of the International University Sports Federation on Saturday on the base of comparative assessment between Kazan, Gwang Ju (South Korea)...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
KAZAN, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - Vatican Cardinal Walter Casper begins an unofficial visit to Kazan on Tuesday. Alexander Pavlov, press secretary of the Kazan bishopric, has told Itar-Tass, "The high-ranki...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kazan, Central Russia, Russian Federation just staying in the train, passing through Kazan
Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The first three Russian Mi-17-B5 Hip H medium assault/transport helicopters were delivered to Indonesia on Thursday. Russia signed a contract with Indonesia in 2005 to supply six helicopters made by the Kazan helicopter plant. "Three helicopters were delivered to the Indonesian ground forces base in the city of Surabaya this morning. Their assembly will start Friday," Andrei Mironov, who will...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Chekhov's The Seagull is back on Broadway, this time with indie movie hipster god Peter Sarsgaard as Trigorin, pretty Brit actress Kristin Scott Thomas as Arkadina and Zoe Kazan (featured in the forthcoming film August ) as Masha. Pretty great casting, especially considering Ms. Thomas' Olivier award for best actress for the last time she performed The Seagull . But how will Mr. Sarsgaard do...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Wade Dubielewicz, the Islanders’ backup goalie, has signed with Ak Bars Kazan, a top club in the Russian league K.H.L.
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Panic in the Streets Directed by Elia Kazan. With Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes. A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with bubonic plague. Spellbinding Click below on "Continue" to view the movie -- I won't run it on the main page. It slows down Atlas ..... and nothing will slow me down baby.
Gilmore Girls News (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
On May 21, Scott Cohen attended the theatrical exhibition "Ex-Lovers" at the Westside Theatre in New York City. The night presented 8 short plays about "ex lovers" presented, written and read by the New York Playwrights Lab. Scott posed there with Israel Horovitz and Zoe Kazan (that photo after the jump). Image: used with permission by [...]
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
AMERICA AMERICA By Ethan Canin Random House, 458 pages, $27 AMERICA AMERICA . TERRIBLE TITLE, right? Grandiose and sentimental. (And Elia Kazan got there first.) That’s what I thought, too—but it’s grown on me, and now I see that it’s suitably ambitious for a novel about ambition, suitably redundant for a novel that takes as its twinned themes American capitalism and American politics, and...
International Security Network (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... that Bout's Air Cess had chartered planes owned by the Aerostan air transport firm registered in Kazan in central Russia, Interfax reported.Global embarrassmentWhile Washington was congratulating itself on Bout's detention in Bangkok, there were many clues about his activities scattered across the US, too.The 2002 Interpol warrant described Bout's power of attorney over Delaware's Vial company...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... and Arthur Kennedy, with a few great character roles going to Frank Craven, Anthony Quinn and Elia Kazan. Yeah, that Elia Kazan.While this flick is in the Warner Bros Gangsters Box Set, there is only one scene of gangsters doing gangstery things, which was a surprise to me. I was pretty shocked to find Cagney playing a big-hearted boxer so in love with his “goil”, an aspiring dancer...
Dispatches from Zembla (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
I saw Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd yesterday, a terrific film in every respect. There is absolutely no reason why it should remain unheralded as a genuine American classic, it is every bit as a good as On the Waterfront, in fact in some respect even better as the subject matter - the nexus between politics and pop culture entertainment and the inbuilt potentiality of culture industry for...
