CULTURE

WORD’S WORTH

One of the interesting effects of dacha life is that you begin to lose track of the days of the week. You stop marking the days as Monday or Saturday, and instead think in terms of “the day it rained” or “the scorcher.”

Lost in the haze of days out at ...

DMITRY PRIGOV 1940-2007

MOSCOW — Dmitry Prigov, a prolific and influential Russian poet and artist who at one point was incarcerated in a Soviet psychiatric hospital as punishment ...

EMERALD ISLES

TEHUMARDI, Estonia — While many think of capital city Tallinn when they think of Estonia, the country also has a less well-known asset in its hundreds of coastal islands. Often escaping the effects of Soviet military and industrial intervention, the islands ...

HARRY POTTER’S FINAL ACT

So, here it is at last: The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “symbol of hope” for both the Wizard and Muggle ...

OUT OF AFRICA

Congo // 57 Ulitsa Zhukovskogo. Tel: 275-9954 // Open daily, noon until midnight; Friday and Saturday, noon until 2 a.m. Menu in Russian and English. // Monday through Friday, 20 percent discount from 12 p.m.-4 p.m. // No credit cards. Dinner for two, ...

DISCOVERING SLOWNESS

Discovering Slowness, an exhibition of Dutch video art on show at the National Center of Photography at 35 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa , offers a compendium ...

Horoscope horror

David Fincher’s magnificently obsessive new film, “Zodiac,” tracks the story of the serial killer who left dead bodies up and down California in the 1960s and possibly the ’70s, and that of the men who tried to stop him. Set when the Age of Aquarius disappeared into the black hole of the Manson family ...