Balkans, Belgrade, Best of Belgrade, Guide to Belgrade, The Belgradist, Travel

Karafindl: The Nutshell Times Good Kafana Guide

Given that the culinary scene in Serbia not only expanded, but changed sufficiently to attract the interest of Michelin guides, a few friends and I lamented the receding prominence of good Serbian kafanas on the culinary landscape. Yes, this is probably overly nostalgic and curmudgeonly, however once one hits a certain age, has had the chance to taste enough varied dishes and has been overcharged … Continue reading Karafindl: The Nutshell Times Good Kafana Guide

Srdjan GarcevicNovember 5, 2021November 8, 2021Leave a comment

Culture, Politics, Serbia

Culture War, Yugoslav style: Remembering 1971 Congress of Cultural Action

In this year of many big anniversaries – 80 years since the beginning of WWII in Serbia, 60 years since Ivo Andrić received the Nobel Prize for „The Bridge over the Drina“ – there is a strange silence about one of the most interesting event in Serbian culture which now celebrates its 50th anniversary: the 1971 Congress of Cultural Action n Kragujevac. The Congress … Continue reading Culture War, Yugoslav style: Remembering 1971 Congress of Cultural Action

Srdjan GarcevicNovember 2, 2021November 2, 2021Leave a comment

Hidden Belgrade, Politics, Serbia, The Belgradist

Occupation in 2-6 Pictures (2): Strahinja Janjić – a traitor’s traitor

On July 28th 1942, 36 year old Strahinja Janjić was taken to the infamous Banjica camp, on the charge of planning to assassinate Milan Nedić, the head of the puppet government that was helping the Germans control “German occupied territory of Serbia”. Banjica, ran in tandem by the Gestapo and Nedić’s government, claimed more than 3,800 lives and was the place where anti-fascist Serbs, Jews … Continue reading Occupation in 2-6 Pictures (2): Strahinja Janjić – a traitor’s traitor

Srdjan GarcevicOctober 18, 2021October 18, 2021Leave a comment

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Pokretači #123 Monika Lang o ilustracijama, stvaralačkom putu i stranputicama

Monika Lang je jedna od najboljih ilustratorki u ovom, sve boljem, polju u Srbiji. Pričali smo o njenom stvaralačkom procesu ali i putu koji je sama krčila kao free-lancer do nekih od najboljih grafičkih rešenja u proteklih par decenija kod nas. Beleške Džef u Veneciji, smrt u Benaresu – Džef Dajer Intervjui sa pokretačima Majstora i Margarite i Zaokreta (Monikini više nego zadovljni klijenti!) Suveniri … Continue reading Pokretači #123 Monika Lang o ilustracijama, stvaralačkom putu i stranputicama

Srdjan GarcevicOctober 14, 2021Leave a comment

Balkans, Travel

Vrnjačka Banja: Remembrance of Things Past

Driving down to Vrnjačka Banja, on a hot July day without a working AC in my car, like we did in our Lada in 1990s, was my Madeleine moment. I was there only once before – with my maternal grandparents in May 1990 – when they decided to christen me on the sly to avoid my atheist father’s protestations, which made that trip have an … Continue reading Vrnjačka Banja: Remembrance of Things Past

Srdjan GarcevicAugust 2, 2021August 2, 20214 Comments

Pokretači, The Nutshell Media, Uncategorized

Pokretači #121 Stefan Tošović o akcijanju i akciji u sportu i medijima

Stefan Tošović je čovek iza Akcijanja u akciji, jednog od najboljih novih medijskih projekata koji približavaju sport, fitnes ali i druge discipline gledaocima. Stefan, inače bivši urednik Men’s Healtha Srbija, je podelio i svoje uvide u svet fitnesa i medija, dve industrije koje su se ozbiljno promenile u protekloj deceniji. Beleške: Stefanov osvrt na sport tokom pandemije Intervju sa Stefanom Kneževićem Stol kod Bora Pratite … Continue reading Pokretači #121 Stefan Tošović o akcijanju i akciji u sportu i medijima

Srdjan GarcevicAugust 2, 2021Leave a comment

Best of Belgrade, The Belgradist

Hidden Belgrade (64): Community spaces

I only noticed Romansa, a Dorćol institution, when a friend of mine casually said it is where her mum likes hanging out with her neighbours. I probably ran and cycled past it hundreds of times – my wannabe yuppie fitness fervour very much at odds with the languor of its patrons, who, no matter the time of day, hung out in its pleasant tiny overgrown … Continue reading Hidden Belgrade (64): Community spaces

Srdjan GarcevicJuly 26, 2021July 26, 2021Leave a comment

Balkans, Travel

From biosphere reserves to industrial boom towns: Where to go in Serbia in 2021

Although travel destination listicles are traditionally made at the start of the year, I do thing differently… and these times are different, as at the start of the year we had little idea of how much we could go around at all. So here it is, the ultimate list of places you have to see in Serbia this… or else… Kragujevac Modern Serbia’s second capital … Continue reading From biosphere reserves to industrial boom towns: Where to go in Serbia in 2021

Srdjan GarcevicJuly 20, 2021July 20, 2021Leave a comment

Hidden Belgrade, Serbia

Homosexuality in Serbia through the Ages

One of my first encounters with the concept of other sexualities was when, as kid visiting my grandmother`s tiny summer house in Montenegro I was walking around the yard and pointed to a far-away house on a land neighbouring ours and asked who lived there. „That was cousin M.`s house…“ she said, somewhat darkly, unlike her eager explanations of who else lived in the 20km … Continue reading Homosexuality in Serbia through the Ages

Srdjan GarcevicJune 30, 2021August 3, 20211 Comment

Culture, Politics, Serbia

RETVRN: Remembering the Serbian Middle Ages

One of the most commonly heard, yet, as it often happens, misattributed, Churchill quotes about the Balkans is that its nations „produce more history than they can consume“, always irritated me for both of its condescending and exoticizing attitude. What is that makes Balkan history so indigestible? Isn’t it the case that it is hardly only the Balkan people’s who shaped this region’s history (and … Continue reading RETVRN: Remembering the Serbian Middle Ages

Srdjan GarcevicJune 29, 2021June 29, 2021Leave a comment

Balkanska posla

Идентитетска економија

Свако ко бира да своје ограничено време на Земљи проводи пратећи дискусије у традиционалним и друштвеним медијима о култури и политици у Србији и суседству, а поготово на Западу, није могао да избегне пораст у броју, али и жару дискусија о идентитетима – етничким, полним, сексуалним – то јест о ”политикама идентитета” (Identity politics). Плодне за изношење најразличитијих ставова јер сви имамо по нешто да … Continue reading Идентитетска економија

Srdjan GarcevicJune 22, 2021Leave a comment

Pokretači, The Nutshell Media

Pokretači #116 To Ginfinity and beyond

Tijana i Boris Faćol iz Subotice su jedni od prvih proizvođača zanatskog džina na sve “uzavrelijem” srpskom tržištu. Pričali smo o njihovom putu od rakije do džina, nagradama koje su osvojili sa svojim sjajnim kreacijama kao i o Subotici, vrlo jedinstvenom i divnom gradu, koji je sve više na preduzetničkoj mapi. Beleške:Ginifinity sajt (ginfinity.rs/) i instagram (www.instagram.com/gin_finity/)O Subotici: thenutshelltimes.com/2020/03/03/whe…erbia-in-2020/Još jedan Subotičanin pokretač : thenutshelltimes.com/2018/10/30/pok…grad-subotica/O Rakiji: thenutshelltimes.com/2020/11/09/pok…anom-radomanom Pratite Pokretače … Continue reading Pokretači #116 To Ginfinity and beyond

Srdjan GarcevicJune 10, 2021Leave a comment

Culture

They don’t (re)make them like they used to: Yugoslav covers of foreign hits through the ages

Although the now globally ubiquitous charges of “cultural appropriation”, have been a staple of inter-ethnic relations in the Balkans since times immemorial (especially when nations insist on their protochronism), they have never stopped the willingness of local musicians to draw from foreign music to create local hits which became treated as local folk songs. This phenomenon was best described in a 2003 Bulgarian documentary, “Whose … Continue reading They don’t (re)make them like they used to: Yugoslav covers of foreign hits through the ages

Srdjan GarcevicMay 28, 2021May 28, 2021Leave a comment

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Build Better: How a Belgrade Firm Built the World

Energoprojekt, the most famous firm based in Belgrade, is celebrating 70 years this year, and thanks to the great people of BINA (Belgrade International Architecture Week) I got acquainted a bit further with both its amazing HQ in New Belgrade as well as its accomplishments around the world. The frim, founded in 1951, initially focused on major energy projects in Yugoslavia, building its coal and … Continue reading Build Better: How a Belgrade Firm Built the World

Srdjan GarcevicMay 13, 2021May 13, 2021Leave a comment

Hidden Belgrade, The Belgradist

Hidden Belgrade (63): Finding Vračar and Belgrade’s holiest mound

On May 10 1594, the Ottoman rulers of Belgrade decided to make sure to make the point to their Serbian subjects that any resistance to their rule is futile. The reason was the first massive uprising against the Ottoman rule in Banat, which erupted in the spring of that year, motivated by the victories of Habsburg forces against the Ottoman army, which 73 years before … Continue reading Hidden Belgrade (63): Finding Vračar and Belgrade’s holiest mound

Srdjan GarcevicMay 11, 2021May 11, 2021Leave a comment

Best of Belgrade, Guide to Belgrade, The Belgradist

Fast food: Indulging during Lent in Belgrade

Serbia enjoys a bit of a reputation for heavy feasting, especially involving copious amounts of grilled mince meat, and piglets and lambs roasting on spits. There, however, is another, deeply traditional side to our food, which, although somewhat unfashionable for a few generations, is coming back with the global rise of veganism and fasting and rediscovery of religious fervour in the country. Traditional Orthodox fasts … Continue reading Fast food: Indulging during Lent in Belgrade

Srdjan GarcevicApril 8, 20211 Comment

Hidden Belgrade, The Belgradist

Occupation in 2-6 Pictures: Beginning

On this day 80 years ago, 6 April 1941, my great-grandparents’s flat in Vuka Karadžića street in Belgrade was torn in two by the Nazi bombs. On the same day, their relative, who was a child at the time was almost killed in the debris the Stukas made of an air-raid shelter by the Ascension church. A few days later, as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia … Continue reading Occupation in 2-6 Pictures: Beginning

Srdjan GarcevicApril 6, 2021Leave a comment

Hidden Belgrade, The Belgradist

Belgrade Erotic Epic

Given it is Spring and the birds and bees and slowly appearing, here are a few (in)famous places in Belgrade, which shaped the sex life of the city. Oriental allure One of the best books about the life of sex workers in early to mid 19th century Belgrade is undoubtedly “Kata Nesiba i komentari” by Ivan Janković. Janković, a famous Belgrade activist and legal scholar … Continue reading Belgrade Erotic Epic

Srdjan GarcevicMarch 18, 2021Leave a comment

Balkans, Guide to Belgrade, The Belgradist, Travel

Belgrade, Peasantville

As Kingdom of Serbia was late to industrialise, modern Belgrade was a city built in large part with the money of proud peasants and cattle (esp. pig) merchants, more than happy to celebrate their rural heritage and especially the ornate dresses of Serbian villagers – this was especially popular as Orientalist and Romantic art, as well as Art Nouveau started looking for something to break … Continue reading Belgrade, Peasantville

Srdjan GarcevicDecember 30, 2020December 30, 2020Leave a comment

Hidden Belgrade, The Belgradist

Hidden Zemun

A vibrant city for itself for much of its history, Zemun is chock-full of history and quirky places, from its underground tunnels to a rather eerie stairway made of gravestones. Although settled since pre-history, it first entered recorded history as Taurunum when it was founded by the same Celtic tribe which founded Belgrade, Scordisci in 2nd BC. It was settled due to its great strategic … Continue reading Hidden Zemun

Srdjan GarcevicDecember 23, 20204 Comments

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