The long-suffering, dilapidated and rather bizarre Dom Narkomfina is one of the last surviving classics of constructivist architecture. element explored the building in the run-up to an exhibition at the Shchusev Architecture Museum. Read full story
Despite Russia’s demographic crisis, baby food fever is sweeping the capital. element wasted a lot of time and money trying to find out why. Read full story
You don’t have to go to a tropical island to escape winter. Europe has its own slice of sunshine in Valencia, where the tapas is cheap and the living is easy. Read full story
There aren’t a whole lot of Kurdish electronic musicians touring Moscow. Especially musicians as freakily hip as Namosh, who blows away 16 Tons on March 14. Read full story
You see the weirdest things in Moscow shopping malls these days. Like decent gourmet restaurants. Chic Italian eatery Spettacolo helps Vremena Goda on Kutuzovsky Prospekt consolidate its reputation as the mall to beat all malls. Read full story
Chef Garde really cares about our readers. Which is why he’s making sure they get lots of healthy vitamins in this vege-packed chicken dish. Read full story
Not even a caveman could take “10,000 B.C.” seriously. This prehistoric piece of beard-and-dreadlock schlock may be one of the best comedies of 2008, as long as you’re as stoned as Fred Flintstone. Otherwise, prepare for a mammoth disappointment. The latest picture from blockbuster king Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day,” “Stargate”) attempts to spit further back into the mists of time than both “Apocalypto” and “300,” to an age when men were men and mastodons were lunch. The hero of the piece is D’Leh (pronounced “delay”), who has dreadlocks, a neatly coiffed goatee and a body straight out of an ab-roller infomercial. Read full story
The three most important factors for any business, so I’m told, are “location, location and location.” If this is true, panoramic Kalina Bar on the 21st floor of the Lotte PLaza has all three covered admirably. If it’s not, Kalina Bar has serious problems. Read full story
