The Ferret, wearing a peaked Tyrolean hat replete with feather sticking out of the band, tight green britches, flannel suspenders, a little vest and dark sunglasses, is sitting late night…

The Journal of Manny Face, Installment 2 So this is how I saw Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” last week at the Kyiv Cinema, off of Lva Tolstogo Square. I’m an…

A heavy metal door bangs open into the night. Fast footsteps slap the pavement in escape… Splashing through a puddle, scaring a stray cat, he keeps running, if not fast,…

Movie review, continued from Installment 2 In the 1960 “La Dolce Vita,” Rome, a generation after the most horrific war in human history, is a timeless hedonistic Arcadia and we…

Or, how a photo turns dream into nightmare (but that’s in Part 2) A photographer flits from table to table at a high-profile Valentine’s Day dinner event in Kyiv. Look…

The place and time: Rico Soiree’s penthouse above the Silver School of English in Kyiv, just after midnight Soiree, dressed in a black smoking jacket with a padded pink lapel,…

Zippy Zamazda gets that job with Rico Soiree’s School of English. Plans takeover After being offered a job by Soiree, teaching English to upwardly rising and globally minded Ukrainians at…

Along a wooded trail not far from a McDonald’s on the outskirts of Kyiv, an expatriate writer and a wife half his size find themselves hopelessly lost. Wife: Jim, are…

The shit really flies, with lawsuits and countersuits between Soiree and Zamazda Meanwhile, What If magazine sticks to its editorial guns After a week, Soiree fires Zamazda from his English-language…

Bret Boner, chief editor of Ukraine’s leading English-language weekly, lies chained to the huge Rodina Mat (Motherland) statue overlooking the Dnieper River in Kyiv. Boner: Woe is me – wretched…