Not content to remain in the shadow of Europe fashion-wise, cosmopolitan Moscow’s Fashion Week each year makes a bigger splash on the world scene. From March 29 to April 7, the homeland’s finest Fall-Winter 2006/2007 collections debut. Read full story
Dahling, nothing’s ever as good as it used to be. The city has slim pickings for the vintage vulture, but element points you in the right direction. Read full story
Paris, the tourist destination par excellence, has shopping, breathtaking architecture and the occasional lunatic. With a beret on your head, a baguette in your hand and a “Bonsoir” on your tongue, the city opens up as a native frere. Read full story
Authors of a song that stuck in your head through the late nineties, Chumbawamba are anarchists without the agro, and are spreading the good word at Apelsin. Read full story
Don’t talk about fashion, but they’ve got that, too. Rather, fish is the first word at Bouillabaisse, Khram Drakona’s new sister on Leninsky Prospekt. Seafood lovers indulge their sins and their souls as Chef Terrion pursues piscean perfection. Read full story
Chef Dominico D’Imperio will be guest-starring at Moscow’s posh art-cafe Galereya from April 4 through 7. If you don’t have time to drop by, or perhaps get feised at the door, you can still try one of the Italian chef’s creations. D’Imperio shares with element readers a world-class recipe for risotto. Read full story
A single-minded Scrat, the comedy relief squirrel, chases around his acorn as a watery Armageddon threatens the Ice Age. The UK release can quack about its marvelous “Kiss Your Nuts Goodbye” tagline, but everyone everywhere else will have to do with losing their “Ice.” Read full story
The ghosts of Soviet statues come out to play on the Krimskaya Naberezhnaya’s floating Bebe Bar, a perfect venue for melancholy alcoholism. Go out for a ride on the drunken boat, if you’ll promise not to pitch yourself over the side. Read full story
