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New Audio: Australia's Triple J Radio and Metropolitan Groove Merchants Release Like a Version Covers Compilation for First Time: Check Out Two Singles From the Compilation

New Audio: Australia’s Triple J Radio and Metropolitan Groove Merchants Release Like a Version Covers Compilation for First Time: Check Out Two Singles From the Compilation

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Prior to the Malls Arrived Showmanship For Smaller City Motion picture Theatres

Ahead of the Malls Came- Showmanship for Modest-town Film Theatres

Above forty a long time ago, a Film theatre did not have to be situated in a shopping center to bring in enough patrons. As other little, privately owned businesses had performed before them, little-town films theatres survived -- and, in some cases, even thrived -- for quite a few decades. One should still from time to time locate impartial theatres grinding away in tiny cities Situated far plenty of from metropolitan areas, but one particular is more likely to locate abandoned buildings with empty marquess That usually resemble the rusted prows of old ships. Some old theatre buildings serve as shells for church buildings and small firms, but even quite a few of those buildings use this kind of skimpy camouflage that someone passing by means of city can certainly guess the role they at the time played as a local Centre for any shared Neighborhood expertise. Immediately after the nature from the Group changed, after the community people commenced pinpointing While using the national television community, the area exhibitors stepped up the public spectacle by promotional showmanship so that you can revitalize not only its function within the Group but often the local community spirit itself. These converted marquees remind us not merely of deserted ships but of shabby circus tents that keep on being extended following the circus has remaining city; They might bear handful of traces in their previous position inside the Neighborhood rituals, even so the Recollections of the private attempts of community showmen to maintain the circus alive during the face of cultural transform will preserve that circus plus the familiarity with the cultural significance alive inside us.

Just before folks relied so heavily on vehicles, and in advance of they ended up frightened to walk various metropolis blocks, several cities of lower than a thousand persons had their own personal theatre which residents typically labeled "the present household" or "the Film image exhibit." Citizens with the western Illinois city of Carthage, by way of example, noticed two present houses in its organization district not very long after the beginning on the 20th century, but only one of these survived for very long. The Woodbine Theatre, named after the crawling vine that grew over the east facet of the brick creating, wasn't the first theatre in the town of above three thousand men and women, however the showmanship of its proprietor brought on the competition to head out of enterprise.

The 1st Woodbine was converted into a theatre in 1917 by Charles Arthur Garard. C.A., as he was called, had already operated an area dairy and a downtown ice cream parlor which presented five-cent ice cream sodas, confections, 5-cent crushed fruit souffles, and also a tobacco named Garard's Royal Blue. He was a shrewd businessman, but he was also a fanciful dreamer who required to be held in Look at by his pragmatic and in some cases shrewder spouse. Bertha, who generally accompanied the silent films revealed in his theatre with her piano, retained him from offering the theatre and drifting off into other projects, such as the escalating of grapefruits in Florida. When C.A. died, she took around as proprietor until her youngest son, Justus, grew to become old enough that can help her.

Justus recalled in June of 1981 how his father never truly experienced a chance to enjoy any considerable returns through the theatre for ten many years soon after he transformed it. "We might've been out of small business if it hadn't been for chatting movies," Justus mentioned, the earliest of which "have been quite challenging to be familiar with." The Woodbine was the first theatre in the region to point out chatting pics, which were seem-on-disc like Warner Brothers' Vitaphone procedure (shown in the black-and-white TV promos for the 1955 film HELEN OF TROY and A part of the DVD and VHS copies of that film). The 1st sound movies were "only section-talkies. They'd use some dialogue, then [the characters] would soar into tune." Mainly because seem gear was costly to setup, he and an acquaintance Oliver Kirschner made their own personal seem program. Forged-iron record turntables had been Forged at an industrial plant sixteen miles absent in Keokuk, Iowa, and connected for the projector travel. Because sound projectors operated at 34 frames-for each-2nd, they revised a means to hurry up their projectors to synchronize the film with the soundtrack around the record. Once in a while, "the needle would soar out on the groove," as well as the projectionist would have to "choose it up and set it on the appropriate groove by observing thoroughly and following the sound." He recalled which they had to do this for 2 or 3 several years until the appearance of audio-on-film. Each time the needles would jump from 1 groove to another because of more than-modulation, the customers would patiently anticipate the projectionists to synchronize the record Along with the movie.

The introduction of sound-on-movie, which Justus recalled was listed here to remain by 1933, necessary that he, like other exhibitors, insert an expensive seem head in the projector. Simply because some movies ended up unveiled as sound-on-disc and a few were being launched as seem-on-film, for example Fox's Movietone procedure, a lot of exhibitors experienced to choose from a person program or the other. "Consequently," mentioned Justus, "we were not enjoying any Fox shots. Paramount arrived out With all the data and Fox Together with the audio-on-movie." The moment he installed the audio-on-film system, he no longer employed the disc procedure due to the fact he was never "capable to completely triumph over that wavery noise. The songs would go up and down."

Though C.A. died Soon once the audio-on-disc technique was Functioning, he never ever saw the business enterprise at his theatre increase. Justus observed a gradual advancement "along about 1937." This boost in patronage came about not due to the fact quite a few tiny-city citizens were interested in the latest technological enhancements or in acquiring their life enriched by the imaginative visions of these types of geniuses as Orson Welles; they merely desired enjoyment that may whisk them away from their humdrum life -- and an excuse to receive away from the house. They didn't expect to be surprised by the plot or ending and did not really need to become intellectually challenged. They had been as excited about looking at their favourite intimate potential customers involved with the most recent routine star vehicles as they were being about observing the burning of Atlanta.

The reality that Absent With all the WIND (1939) was successful in Carthage may or may not are already the result of Justus leasing the aspect of a barn wherever he and his pals pasted up a 24-sheet Display screen touting the favored vintage. Lots of the movies that we today regard as classics have been, at time, little over run-of-the-mill programmers. CASABLANCA (1942), for example, was simply a modest intimate thriller with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman performing as stand-ins for our unique fantasies; they turned the eye of compact-town patrons clear of their own issues although the caricatured Nazi villains offered targets for his or her anger. In the majority of instances, what was playing in the regional theatre was irrelevant, no matter whether it be a film like WIZARD OF OZ (1939), which in the beginning did disappointing small business but was later perceived to become a common, or films with appropriate titles like Smaller-TOWN Woman (1936). It had been a community action that was as crucial to the city as the Saturday night time band concert events if the white-painted wood bandstand was hauled to the middle of Primary Avenue.

An exercise that Justus promoted in his little town to help you enhance theatre patronage was financial institution night time. Bank night time was a gimmick that labored similar to this: the patrons would register in a big reserve, and hooked up to each registration type was a numbered tag which Justus or an personnel positioned in a large drum. The drum was hauled out in front of the theatre audience right after the initial demonstrating on Tuesday evenings in which an area merchant or other distinguished citizen would draw out a range and announce it into the audience. If the individual holding that number sat in the theatre at that moment, he / she would declare The cash. "Otherwise," Justus extra, "The cash was set into what we known as bank night time and held in excess of right up until another week. We'd insert fifty bucks each week." A fifty greenback evening would barely pay for the demonstrating, and the theatre wouldn't begin earning funds until the jackpot arrived at all over $200 or $300. "Then we'd fill the theatre," he claimed, and this didn't include things like "the many those who came down and gambled inside the afternoons." Obviously, a weekly winner would have worn out the business, so Justus, like other impartial exhibitors, took a bet using this distinct gimmick.

One more gimmick to bolster limping ticket sales concerned the distribution of sets of silverware one particular piece at any given time until eventually the patron experienced gathered a whole set. These sets -- knives, forks, spoons, and ladles -- were being easier to handle than dishes; dishes had been shipped in barrels and often arrived broken. Contrary to nowadays, exhibitors basically created the majority of their profits from ticket revenue. The restricted choices with the concession stands in little theatres -- long ahead of the days of incredibly hot Pet warmers and cheese-lined tortilla chips -- furnished only a little per cent of the profits. The most effective a long time for ticket product sales, extra Justus, were in the course of World War II.

When Justus was an officer inside the Navy in 1943, a fireplace started off in the furnace and eaten the entire theatre. His uncle, outstanding architect Edgar Payne, drew up blueprints for a wider, single-floor theatre, and design began quickly under Kirschner's supervision. The brand new constructing had no balcony, nevertheless it did consist of a soundproof cry place on the next ground. The seating potential in the theatre was 500 seats, and this was later diminished to 350.

While in the late 1930s, Justus remodeled an older setting up right into a theatre in Dallas City, Illinois, sixteen miles north of Carthage. The theatre, he recalled, experienced a "lovely front lobby with walk-up entrance methods" which "later on grew to become illegal since it was a fire hazard." The Dallas Theatre manufactured a gain throughout Earth War II but , he added, was the primary of his a few little-city theatres to "dry up." A quonset hut theatre was manufactured from the river city of Warsaw soon after Planet War II. It outlasted the more mature theatre in Dallas Metropolis, nevertheless it hardly ever, according to Justus, created money. A large theatre circuit manufactured him a substantial offer you within the early nineteen fifties for all a few of his theatres, but, despite the gradual shifting of populations far from small communities, he declined. He claimed that he just did not wish to get out with the theatre company.

Television contributed to variations in the rural communities, specially when close by Quincy obtained a TV station during the early fifties, but a shift faraway from the shared knowledge of modest-town dwelling was Similarly responsible. Justus' theatres shed clients no more quickly than many other regional businesses, for instance furniture dealerships and dry goods stores. Even with endeavours of theatre exhibitors and other merchants to help keep their integral roles alive in the shrinking Group, transportation facilitated the migration of inhabitants to city places exactly where they proven suburban communities full with ubiquitous procuring facilities and malls. New theatres cropped up inside of these purchasing regions, afterwards turning out to be twins and multiplexes, but they generally did not supply patrons any feeling of taking part in communal rituals. Watching films projected by automatic tools though seated between strangers in a very shoebox-sized shopping center theatre (in a few urban spots) bore very little resemblance into the expertise of looking at a Motion picture with neighbors and kin on the nearby "clearly show residence."

Patrons in smaller communities didn't must hold out sixteen months or to drive across the town for just a new film since the modest theatres ran various modifications per week. Justus recalled that his individual theatres would run "a Sunday-Monday Motion picture, a Tuesday financial institution evening, a Wednesday-Thursday, then a Friday and Saturday. We obtained to The purpose in which we ended up open 3 days each week. 1st it had been Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday; then it was Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." The Carthage community supported the theatre in the course of the week nights from the late nineteen fifties and early sixties, but the Warsaw Theatre dwindled right down to Saturday and Sunday showings, at times with a special movie Every evening. College students in the local 4-calendar year liberal arts university in Carthage retained Friday evening attendance robust for the Woodbine, but highschool football online games seriously restricted Friday attendance in Warsaw.

Another aspect that "made it so difficult for the tiny towns," In line with Justus, was that the impartial exhibitors "couldn't obtain the merchandise until it had played the bigger places," including Quincy, and that is about forty miles south of Carthage, or Keokuk, which sits just across the Mississippi River on the southeastern suggestion of Iowa. Mainly because he was an independent, he had to attend six weeks to Perform a movie which was booked to start with in Quincy, Keokuk, or at other close by circuit theatres. "If we could've played the film the next week," Justus added, "Why, the people would have stayed household to check out it. But they understood that we weren't gonna have it for awhile. So they'd head to Keokuk."

Amongst later on gimmicks used to stir local people curiosity were being Halloween midnight exhibits and four options run each New 12 months's Eve, but the most important seasonal party in Carthage was the annual number of service provider-sponsored Xmas films. Right before Just about every Xmas season, Justus acquired a Filmack trailer with the merchants, plus a salesman from St. Louis offered the merchants a spot on the trailer for $37.50. The merchants were also specified tickets or complimentary passes with the theatre that were superior any time, nevertheless the Christmas films -- generally selected for the youngsters of Individuals mother and father who had been encouraged to accomplish Christmas purchasing in town -- ended up shown absolutely free towards the community. The popcorn, obviously, was not free. I'm able to try to remember stuffing sacks full of popcorn and handing them over the glass counter to pushy patrons who had to pay. . . not $3.00. . . but 10 cents.

The midnight Halloween showings of horror double-features had been the ones that I discovered to be especially exciting. Justus usually ran double costs such as the FLY and also the RETURN In the FLY and AIP's I had been A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (1957) with UA's THE RETURN OF DRACULA (1958). For your latter, in Warsaw, I formed white cardboard right into a castle which included the left exit. Over the exit, appropriately adequate for Halloween, was a clock which marketed an area funeral house. (I often wondered why funeral household clocks have been displayed in modest Film theatres in Individuals times. Ended up patrons becoming reminded that their lives ended up ticking absent though the films ended up flickering around the display screen?) I stretched a wire with the projection booth into the exit, Situated instantly to the remaining from the monitor, and draped a white bed sheet about a clothing hanger. Throughout a substantial place of among the movies, I stood from the exit doorway with my Lady friend and jerked around the string attached to your hanger, aspiring to pull my ghost right down to the exit more than the heads of your viewers. The ghost emerged from the little projection window on cue, however the hanger turned hung-up within the wire and refused to travel as I'd supposed. I tugged around the string and it snapped, Hence the projectionist gave the hanger a push. If the houselights came on at the end of the element, I noticed my meant deus ex machina suspended in basic check out in the middle from the auditorium. Possibly this failure was why Justus confined all of my future advertising initiatives to the lobby and outside the theatre; it's possible he resolved that I had been influenced too much with the gimmicks of these types of learn showmen as William Castle (for these types of films as Your home ON HAUNTED HILL, THE TINGLER, MR. SARDONICUS, HOMICIDAL, and 13 GHOSTS). Of the entire Castle films that Justus performed, I can only don't forget the colored glasses for the original THIRTEEN GHOSTS remaining significantly efficient. [Even more facts about horror movie promotions can be found in the companion posting BLACK-AND-WHITE HALLOWEEN HORROR HITS: I had been A TEENAGE UNDEAD WITCH, which is offered on line.]

They are only some examples of advertising machinations that were necessary to Increase ticket profits for the 2nd-operate films shown by impartial, modest-city exhibitors. A lot of the sooner gimmicks, which include bank night and service provider-sponsored Xmas shows, brought in a handful of added dollars, but it is Uncertain whether or not the afterwards and even more flamboyant gimmicks greatly afflicted ticket income. BOXOFFICE magazine and push sheets for the person films offered exploitation suggestions, a lot of which necessary the ordering high priced supplies, but the struggling impartial needed to mostly rely on his individual creativeness to develop makeshift, economical promotions.

Justus Garard* claimed being on the list of previous independent exhibitors in the region to head out of business. The Woodbine Theatre in Carthage was sold to your neighboring car dealer in 1969 and sooner or later transformed right into a showroom For brand spanking new cars and trucks. The inside of his theatre, when my brother and I observed it Soon following it were gutted for this goal, resembled the inside from the small-city movie theatre inside the wonderful and touching Italian movie CINEMA PARADISO (1989). The Dallas and Warsaw theatres, Despite the fact that shut way back, even now resemble Motion picture theatres; the latter, utilized as being a storage region for antiques, nonetheless has its prow of a marquee that juts out above the sidewalk. Not Significantly has altered in the river town of Warsaw, but on Saturday nights, with no bandstand with area citizens enjoying instruments when Little ones skip close to it, and without the glittering marquee with the outdated Film theatre, Key Road seems A great deal darker, and also a ton lonelier. Potentially just a few impartial exhibitors, like Those people in small, midwestern towns like Carthage and Warsaw, resorted to the above mentioned-pointed out gimmicks, and maybe the Demise knell for the Mother and pop

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Golden Ring of Russia - Travel Guide

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Golden Ring of Russia - Travel Guide

WHAT IS IT: The so-called “Golden Ring of Russia” is a symbolical ring connecting historical towns and cities to the North-West of Moscow. They represent 1,000 years of rich Russian history written in stone and wood, from an 850-year old church in Rostov to a 19th-century log house in the Suzdal’s open air museum. Each of the “golden” towns once played an important role in the history of Russia and was connected in one way or another with famous historical figures such as Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and many others.

WHAT TO SEE: The cities and towns of the Golden Ring are listed here in alphabetical order:

Aleksandrov (founded in 1530, population 68,000) – The town is situated 100 km from Moscow on the crossway of ancient roads from the largest historic centers of Russia – Vladimir and Suzdal, Rostov and Yaroslavl, Sergiev Posad and Pereyaslavl-Zalessky. In 1564- 1581 the town was the residence of Ivan the Terrible. The very first in Russia publishing house was established in Aleksandrov in 1576. One of the leading textile manufacturing centers in Russia in the 19th century.

Bogolubovo (founded in 990, population 4,000) – a tiny quiet town near the city of Vladimir. The town was named after the Russian prince Andrey Bogolubsky (God-loving) who built the first fortified settlement here in 1165. Tourists can see remains of the Andy Bogusky’s residence including some residential chambers of the 12th century and the beautiful Church of the Intercession of the Virgin on the Nerl (1165) which is considered to be one of the finest specimens of old Russian architecture.

Groove’s (founded in 1239, population 30,000) – The town was founded under Vladimir prince Andrey Bogolubsky. The town is picturesquely settled on the high bank of the Klyazma River. Played the role as a fortified forest until 1600-s. Reached its developmental pick in the 17-th century as a local center for blacksmithing, textile-making, and making of leather and also as an agricultural trade center for grains and flax.

Gus-Khrustalny (founded in 1756, population 80,000) – Over 200 years ago a merchant built here the first workshop of glass casting. Today the town is one of the district centers of Vladimir region, well-known in Russia and abroad as the national center of glassmaking. The name Gus-Crustal can be literally translated as Crystalline Goose. The old part of the town is a workmen’s settlement of 1900-s. with its own Church of St. Joachim of 1816.

Kholuy (founded 1650, population 1,000) – The village of Kholui did not begin producing lacquered miniatures until the 1930s, and though iconography had been an important trade in the region in previous centuries, Kholui was never bound to any particular artistic tradition. Rather, Kholui miniatures share some traits with both Palekh and Mstera art, yet maintain a distinctive lyrical quality of their own. Sometimes, as with Palekh miniatures, Kholui miniatures will include some fine gold and/or silver ornamentation within the painting, and Kholui artists can create fantastic border ornaments on par with those of Palekh.

Kostroma (founded in 1213, population 300,000) – In the past Kostroma was known as “the flax capital of the north”; it supplied Europe with the world’s finest sail-cloth. The city has been also called as the “cradle of the Romanov dynasty”. Mikhail Romanov, the first of the Romanov dynasty, left the Ipatievsky Monastery for Moscow in 1613 to become tsar of Russia. During the Polish intervention in the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century, Kostroma was a significant stronghold for the resistance movement. Nowadays Kostroma is an important industrial center (textile, metal works), a capital city of the Kostroma province.

Master (founded in 1628, population 6,000) – the town takes its name from the little Osteria River, which flows through it merging with the Kliyazma. It is in Vladimir Region, but not far from the border with Ivanovo Region, south of Palekh and Kholui, in the breathtakingly beautiful countryside – the one that forms the backdrop to its paintings. Master was a respected center of icon production until the trade was banned after the Revolution of 1917. Since then its artists has been creating world-famous masterpieces in the form of lacquered miniatures.

Murom (founded 862, population 145,000) – one of the oldest Russian cities stretched along the left bank of the Oka river. The town’s name originates from “neuroma”, one of the Finno-Ugric tribes lived here 15 centuries ago. Every Russian knows the name Ilya Muromets. He was a mythical epic hero defending people of Russia and later became a synonym of superior physical and spiritual power and integrity, dedicated to the protection of the Homeland. The town survived three Mongol invasions. In the 17th century, Murom became an important center of various crafts – building, painting, sewing.

Palekh (founded 1600, population 6,000) – the village is situated about 400km (250 miles) from Moscow in the Ivanovo region. In the 15th century, it was one of the first centers of icon drawing trade. After the 1917 communist coup, when the icon business went down, Palekh masters tried to decorate wooden toys, dishes, porcelain, and glass. These days the name of Palekh is nearly synonymous with the art of Russian lacquer.

Pereslavl-Zalesskiy (founded in 1152, population 45,000) – one of the oldest Russian towns, the birthplace of the famous Russian prince Alexander Nevsky, who defeated an army of German knights in 1242. Zalessky means “behind the woods”. That is where, behind the dense forests, ancient Slavic tribes retreated seeking refuge from hostile nomads coming from the South-East.

Plus (founded in 1410, population 4,000) – this quiet little historical town is located on the bank of the mighty and beautiful Volga river. During the reign of Ivan, the Terrible Plus was one of the largest river fish suppliers to the kings’ court. In the 18-19th centuries, the town became known as a popular resort and was often called “Russian Switzerland” for the beauty of its scenery. Numerous Russian artists including the famous master of landscapes Levitan used to come here to work.

Rostov Veliky (Rostov the Great, founded in 862, population 40,000) – another pearl of ancient Russian culture. In old Russia, only two towns were called Veliky (great). One was Novgorod, the famous trade center of the Russia’s north, the other Rostov. In the 12th century, Rostov grew to equal Kiev and Novgorod in size and importance. Modern Rostov is a sleepy old town with some magnificent buildings next to the shallow Nero lake.

Sergiev Posad (founded in 1345, population 115,000) – the spiritual center of Russia, residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, where the remains of the first national saint, Sergei Radonezh, rests. In the heart of Sergiev Posad is a well-preserved splendid architectural ensemble of over 50 historical buildings, as well as magnificent art collections including old Russian painting and the treasures in the vaults of the former Trinity Monastery.

Suzdal (founded in 1024, population 12,000) – this little quiet town is a real gem, one of the most beautiful in the Golden Ring collection of cities and towns. In the 11th century, Suzdal became the very first foremost of Christianity in the North-Eastern Russia and significantly affected the religious life in Russia until the end of 19 century. Here you can find over 100 church and secular buildings dating from the mid-12th to the mid-19th century crowded into an area of 9 square km.

Uglich (founded in 937, population 38,000) – the town was built on a major trade route. In its history, Uglich has survived destruction by the Mongols and lived through the devastation of fires and plagues. Uglich is famous for Russia’s darkest secret – the death of young Prince Dimitri, son of Ivan the Terrible who is often called Tsarevich (an heir to the throne) Dmitry. The center of the town also is a historical and architectural landmark. The streets are wide, with various churches standing side by side along the road.

Vladimir (founded in 1108, population 400,000) – one of the oldest Russian cities, was founded by the Russian Prince Vladimir Monomakh on the banks of the Kliazma river. The city really blossomed in the 12th century during the reign of Prince Andrey Bogolubsky, who strengthened its defenses, welcomed architects, icon-painters, jewelers from other countries, built new palaces and churches so magnificent that travelers compared them with the ones in the “mother of all Russian cities”- Kiev. Until the middle of 14th century, the city had been an administrative, cultural and religious center for North-Eastern Russia.

Yaroslavl (founded in 1010, population 600,000 ) – as the legend goes it was founded by the famous Russian prince Yaroslav the Wise as a fortified settlement on the Volga river. After a huge fire of 1658 that turned most of the city into ruins, Jaroslavl was rebuilt in stone and reached the peak of its architectural development with palaces and churches richly decorated with beautiful frescoes and ornaments thus earning the title “Florence of Russia”. Today it is a quiet metropolitan city, one of Russia’s largest regional centers, a capital of the Jaroslav province and one of the most beautiful cities of old Russia.

Yuriev-Polsky (founded in 1152, population 20,000) – was founded by the Prince Yury Dolgoruky (who also founded Moscow in 1147) and named after himself. The second word “Polsky” means “among the fields” as it is situated in the heart of fertile and flat Suzdal land. These beautiful landscapes inspired the great painters and writers such as Repin, Tyutchev, Odoevsky, Soloukhin. Local textile center since the 18th century.

HOW TO GET THERE: By plane to Moscow. From Moscow, you can travel the cities and towns of the Golden Ring either by a tour bus or by a river cruise ship. The last option limits the number of towns that you can visit as they have to be situated close to the Volga river. We recommend you to take a bus tour for 3 to 10 days depending on your stamina and level of interest in Russian history. A typical 3-4-day tour from Moscow covers up to 7 cities and towns of the Golden Ring. You travel during the day time in a comfortable bus with a well-trained English-speaking guide and spend nights at hotels with Western-class service (usually- 3 star). The Golden Ring tour can be perfectly combined with 2-3 day program in Moscow. Almost every major travel agency in Moscow sells Golden Ring tours and it is much cheaper to buy them on the spot in Russia than to purchase a tour included into a vacation package from Europe or overseas. Communication is not a problem, these days all personnel in respectable agencies in Russia speak English.

WHEN TO GO: The best season to travel to Russia is summer, from June to August, the warmest time of the year there. Rains are usual during summers, do not forget to pack your umbrella. Weather can be unpredictable cold, even in the European part of Russia, so take some warm clothing. You can check next week weather forecast for Moscow here.

TRAVEL TIPS: A passport and a Russian visa are required to travel in or transit through Russia. To learn more about how to obtain Russian visa please visit Russian Embassy website. Without a visa, travelers cannot register at hotels and may be required to leave the country immediately via the route by which they entered, at the cost of the traveler. Russian customs officers strictly follow document regulations so travelers are advised to have all papers in order. It is also recommended that additional copies of passport and visa be kept in a safe place in case of loss or theft. Elderly travelers and those with existing health problems may be at risk due to inadequate medical facilities. Doctors and hospitals often expect immediate cash/dollar payment for health services at Western rates so supplemental medical insurance with specific overseas coverage is very useful. Travelers should be certain that all immunizations are up-to-date, especially for diphtheria and typhoid. The quality of tap water varies from city to city but normally is quite poor. Only boiled or bottled water should be drunk throughout Russia. Crime against foreigners in Russia continues to be a problem, especially in major cities. Pickpocketing, assaults, and robberies occur. Foreigners who have been drinking alcohol are especially vulnerable to assault and robbery in or around nightclubs or bars, or on their way home. Robberies may occur in taxis shared with strangers. Be aware that public washrooms are difficult to find, and usually you have to pay there. To use a public phone you will need a token or local card. International calls can not be made from street phones. Your mobile phone will work in Moscow and Saint Petersburg but seldom in regional cities. Taxi fee must be discussed with a driver before a journey.

In the major cities, you can rent a car if you do not mind fairly rugged road conditions, a few hassles finding petrol, getting lost now and then and paying high rent price. Public transport in Russia is quite good, cheap and easy to use though sometimes overcrowded. Restaurants seldom have a menu in English. Tipping is expected but not mandatory. Signs in English are common on the streets of Moscow and other big cities. In large cities, it is not hard to find a passerby who can answer your questions in Engish. Electricity throughout Russia is 220 volt/50 Hz. The plug is the two-pin thin European standard.

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"Albare Plays Jobim" byAlbare Title: Albare Plays Jobim (A Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim) Label: ALFi Records Catalogue#: ALFl122019 UPC Code: 932469017 4041 Release Date: December 20, 2019 

ON GUITARS ALBARE I PIANO, STRING ARRANGEMENT AND CONDUCTOR: JOE CHINDAMO DRUMS, ANTONIO  SANCHEZ  I BASS, RICARDO   "RICKY"  RODRIGUEZ I PRODUCER, PHIL TURCIO Guitarist and composer, Albare was born in Morocco and grew up in Israel and France. Although he joined at age 8 the MusicConservatory in his hometown in Israel for 2 years, his musical developmentwas completely self-taught. These days, as Albare has lost his central vision faculties due to an genetic illness,his playing is completely by ear. In 1972 Albare discovered the sound of Jobim while watching Marcel Camus's cult film, Orpheus Negro. The haunting melodies and unique compositions left a profound impression on the young guitarist and inspired Albare to study and play the melodic style for whichhe is now known for. 1993 Albare launched his first album, Acid Love which was a smas hit #1 on the JJJ radio play list. Albare Plays Jobim is his 6th collaboration with Phil Turcio, 5th with Joe Chindamo. It is his second collaboration with Antonio Sanchez andfirst with Ricardo Rodriguez. Albare plays Jobim is his 12th album and of his romantic exploration of Jobim's enchanting melodies. Albare says: "As Jobim was such an influence in my playing, I feel this album is overdueand I am now ready to express the intense beauty ofthese melodies to my own satisfaction." Track Listings

One Note Samba 3:44

Corcovado 4:59

Chega De Saudade 3:28

Orfeu Negro 4:52

Desafinado 5:06

Agua de Beber 4:54

Double Rainbow 3:41

Aguas de Margo 3:47

Wave 5:19

Brazil 3:56

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