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Bourgas sand sculpture festival again a major tourist drawcard

August 6, 2013August 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas

The latest year of the sand sculpture festival at a site near the north beach of the Black Sea city

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What’s on: Sofia Breathes

August 2, 2013August 1, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

For a fourth year running, residents and visitors of Sofia are invited to shake off the torpor of the hot

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Film review: The Heat

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Since May, Melissa McCarthy has appeared in three films. All of them have been terrible and full of the cheapest

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Film review: Blue Jasmine

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Blue Jasmine differs in two important ways from most of Woody Allen’s other recent films. The first difference is that

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New Hungarian airline ‘will be Malév-plus, without the problems’

July 30, 2013July 30, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

“We did not ask for help from the state, we didn’t even show them our business plan because we didn’t

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Film review: The Conjuring

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The horror genre changed irrevocably the day Stanley Kubrick picked up Stephen King’s The Shining. Although not known for being

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Film review: Violet & Daisy

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Violet & Daisy is a story about two young girls who spend their days donning costumes resembling pajamas, each tagged

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Film review: White House Down

July 19, 2013July 18, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The latest film by blockbuster director Roland Emmerich is not bad at all. In it, the White House is invaded

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Film review: Behind the Candelabra

July 19, 2013July 18, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Was there ever anybody quite as stereotypically gay as Liberace? The man with the tiny poodles, the sometimes purple wig,

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