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Interview by Dessislava Berndt with record producer, songwriter and actor Simon Britton Simon Britton is an Emmy and British Television Awards winner. He has sold more than 50 million singles as musician, producer and songwriter worldwide. He is one half of the Red Rhythm remix, production and writing team having worked with artists like Ashanti, […]

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Lauren Sophie Kearney Photo: epSos.de The purpose of the SAAM campaign is to increase awareness about sexual violence and to educate the public on how to prevent the matter. Sexual assault is a critical issue that affects a high percentage of women and girls on a daily basis; most of them unaware they’re being assaulted. […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Bulgarian Artists in America It is Spring already and it’s time to meet up again for our next ART DATE in New York City on Thursday, April 26th 7:30-10pm. Spring brings new ideas, new spirit and new beginning. Come to share your creative ideas, meet up with creatives, get inspired, network, collaborate or just come […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Interview with the singer, actress and producer Dessy Tenekedjieva by Dessislava Berndt Translation by Polina Georgieva DessyTenekedjieva, Photo: Elena Spasova Dessy, what is music to you? Music is one of the first arts that touches a human’s soul in the most emotional, inmost and pure way possible. A song can make you happy, but a […]

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Donal Mahoney Photo: ruresolitude In 1948 Booger McNulty’s coal yard stirred constant gossip among the citizens who lived in little bungalows on narrow blocks in my far corner of Chicago. That was more than 60 years ago, a time when families took Sunday walks and went back home in time to hear Jack Benny on […]

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Simeon Gasparov Photo: Loop_oh The scrawny sun in the crisp tenderness of telegraph wires has tripped while chasing its newborn inspiration. And remained there, hanging as a shining ball, until the end of Indian summer. After the first rain of October quietly Rolled back on our last, dusty, southern, lost highway… …One homeless dream barked […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

by Jonathan C. Beck Photo: Jonathan C. Beck What does one do when internet isn’t available? I know what I used to do. I would read books, hang out with friends, color, draw, watch TV and movies. I could still draw, but those other things aren’t readily available to me at the moment. I will […]

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Roman Kissiov Photo: (cc) Chadica “…You must have surely understood by then what Ithacas mean” C. Cavafy I am Odysseus, too, but unknown. No one ever heard of me, nobody knew about my shrewdness… Because I never left Ithaca. Never in my life did I meet Cyclopes, Laistrygones and Sirens. I did not build a […]