Thanks to key influencers such as best selling author Robert D. Kaplan and star traveler Rick Steves, Romania was in the spotlight in 2016.
Two foreigners who set the spotlight on Romania in 2016
Text/image web log in English.
The pictured guide of Munich for the casual soccer and rock’n roll fan
Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is a great place to visit for soccer + rock’n roll fans like myself.
Teo Milea sells out Toronto. What next?
It was a sold out performance last night for Teo Milea at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto: a fitting gift for celebrating one year since landing to Canada.
Teo Milea live in Toronto – Saturday 22 October 2016
North West Jazz Festival: Baia Mare, Romania, 9-11 September 2016
One of the things I enjoyed most behind the Iron Curtain at the famous Sibiu Jazz Festival during the 1980’s was … regionalism.
A compelling 30-year travelogue about Romania for the English language booklover: In Europe’s shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
It is not every day that an essential, easy to read book about Romania is published in English.
Romanian FM jocks Mihai Morar & Daniel Buzdugan unleash outright racist rant on air at Radio Zu
Romania’s soccer team drew 1-1 to DR Congo last week in a friendly game in preparation for the EURO 2016 France.
The weak performance against Congo (rated 52 by FIFA) drew the ire of two of the most popular FM radio disc jockeys in Romania, Morar & Buzdugan, the morning show hosts at Radio Zu (a privately own station with national coverage).
And they channeled that ire into an outright racist rant against DR Congo’s players. More, they dropped insults to France’s national soccer team (Romania’s opponent in the opening game at EURO 2016) and used a famous Disney song as a racist joke.
Buzdugan (first left) and Morar (second right) offering apologies to Congolese diplomats in Bucharest – source: RadioZu.ro
Rare Romanian finds at Toronto Library
It takes only two little steps to uncover a couple of digital treasures of Romanian origin in the publicly available digital archive at the Toronto Public Library.
They are free children books published in … 1896.
Here is how to get them.
Fast Track – solo bass by Mihai Zaharia
Romanian photographer Silviu Ghetie – fabulous stills for award winning movie Aferim! by Radu Jude
I was lucky to be around when multiple award winning, Romanian photographer Silviu Ghetie begun his career.
It was early 1990s, in our Transylvanian hometown Baia Mare, when I befriended Silviu, and occasionally served as a model during his shoots. I loved the cinematic quality coming out of his portraits, including mine. Have a look…
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