Lars von Trier’s latest film, Nymphomaniac, confirms his dual role as one of contemporary cinema’s leading auteur/provocateurs.

We had been warned about choosing the right airport taxi.

The monastery at Rila is a two-hour bus ride south of Sofia.

The new chapbook from the Writers' Exchange promises to reveal its contributors' (elementary school kids) greatest dreams.

The Bulgarian Film Archive houses an amazing collection of communist-era films and ephemera.

Women have always shared their stories in the privacy of bedrooms, bathrooms, changerooms, or anywhere else that they find, and, with much hilarity and not a little anger and sadness, they did it again on the stage of the Firehall Theatre.

A day spent in Veliko Tarnovo with giant monuments, underemployed graduates and old woodworkers.

One more week left in Sofia.

Thirteen-year-old girls form punk rock band in 1982 Sweden

0GMS is an artist collective that has been working in Sofia for the past four years.

In 1989, a Bulgarian artist, Nedko Solakov, installed a telescope on top of the building that housed the Union of Bulgarian Artists.

Our exhibition is getting more and more complicated.

On May 24, the Day of Bulgarian Education, Culture and Cyrillic Alphabet, the Bulgarians celebrate the Cyrillic alphabet.

The Suitcase taverna sits on the edge of central Sofia and the surrounding suburban area.

The time after an opening is a kind of lost time. For months leading up to the show you spend all your time and energy putting it together and then, suddenly, it’s over.

We went to see The Heartbeat of Russia, a Russian state-sponsored contemporary art exhibition of performance art, needlepoint, illustration, photography and other art forms.

Our exhibition Public Address opened tonight and, according to the participating Bulgarian artists, it was a success.

The sign outside of Checkpoint Charly restaurant advertises “American Jazz-z-z.”

The Bulgarian Military Press is a mysterious organization that operates a tiny storefront set inside a huge building in downtown Sofia.

Storytelling meets improv comedy.

I decided to come to Bulgaria after listening to Scot’s stories about his visit to the town of Plovdiv in 2000.

Playing House: Two thought-provoking photo projects involving two women with similar names and two male mannequins whose names begin with "C." Weird and/or wonderful?

A cartoon for an adult audience: a Brazilian boy takes a kaleidoscopic voyage into the modern world

The real story of the Brooklyn bank robber from "Dog Day Afternoon."

Jordan Turner wins the Geist Newsletter Photo Contest.

In Everything Will Be (directed by Julia Kwan), the story flips between the old and the new of Vancouver's fast-changing Chinatown, with the focus on the rich community of characters that live and work there.

The film Walking Under Water (directed by Eliza Kubarska) centers around two members of the Badjao tribe of sea nomads in the Sulu and Celebes sea.