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The road less travelled in the Rhodope

July 5, 2013May 10, 2024 Gabriel Hershman archaeology

Fleeing an unseasonably cool and wet July day in Sofia, we headed south to Kurdjali on an organised tour* –

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Film review: Prince Avalanche

July 5, 2013July 5, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Prince Avalanche, which is being screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), marks a triumphant return for David

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Film review: World War Z

July 5, 2013July 10, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

The opening credits of World War Z are ominous, to say the least. Actual news footage, in which news presenters

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Britain urges holidaymakers to be cautious on balconies

June 28, 2013July 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches, tourism

Britain’s foreign and commonwealth office (FCO) issued a travel advisory to British holidaymakers to “take care on balconies in popular

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Film review: Monsters University

June 28, 2013June 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Monsters University is having a hard time fitting in. Director Dan Scanlon’s first picture for Pixar Animation Studios simply does

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Film review: The Bling Ring

June 28, 2013June 27, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Three of Sofia Coppola’s five films have been about teenagers. The Virgin Suicides, her début feature, was a poetic period

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Exhibition in Plovdiv marking 60th anniversary of East German uprising

June 21, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

An exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the June 1953 uprising in East Germany is to open in Bulgaria’s second

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Film review: Trance

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

One couldn’t imagine a more appropriate title than this one. Danny Boyle, who last directed James Franco in the cinematic

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Film review: Man of Steel

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

Guns blazing, fireballs glaring, smoke rising, people dying. Such is the first 20 minutes of Man of Steel, the latest

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