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Afisha by Kyiv Post is the most established and wide-ranging publication on Kyiv market so far. Its parent English-language Kyiv Post has its own weekly Guide section in English. Both magazine and paper are for sale or offered for free at many coffee shops and restaurants around town.

10 Days is comparatively new magazine (one year old) and has very navigable webpage.

TimeOut just started its bi-weekly on Kyiv! Let’s see what it brings us.

Other lesser cultural guide magazines are Zefir, What’s On (the latter is also in English), section in Kommersant newspaper, etc.

Parmesan restaurant on Andriyivsky descent is the latest arrival in Italian fair of Kyiv.  The decor is gorgeous, especially in the restroom.  The sommelier is a cute chubby man. As for food - the second time we were there most our selections wished for the better.   Andriyivsky needs more places at any point of the price range to draw pedestrian public there by night after the art bazaar wraps up. Else, it’s dead there after the dark, apart from rare gallery goers or packs of kids hiking up and down to Podil.

Parmesan
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This fall walking advertisements grabbed everyone’s attention in Kyiv. The young people in quirky company colored and styled garb walk around the city, sometimes handing fliers. Flower hats, stripy scarves, kinky policemen outfits - even segways are common means of commanding attention. Cheap labor by poor college students probably provides great savings to companies’ advertisement budget, billboards go at world-class rates in these parts. In addition it gives a new face to the streets of Kyiv. In the future I’d like to put out a set of pics featuring these laborers in action

The Santa Clauses on this pic were many in number, walked briskly carrying flags, chanting the new promotion deal for the paying telephone company.

The author offered interesting compositions in odd color and distortion.  A concept note was not awailable at hand. The evet was part of kievFotoCom fesival.  The author shoots film and developes it himself. Via TimeOut Kyiv.