Tel Aviv Fever

Pianist Yuja Wang plays in The Hangar and Smolarz Auditorium

Frits — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:59:01 +0000

Chineze pianist Yuja Wang (1987) will play Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no.3 and Symphonic Dances on Tuesday, February 14th (20:30) at The Hangar, and Saturday 18th (20:30) and Friday 24th (14:00) at the Smolarz Auditorium.

The Scorpions coming to Nokia Hall Tel Aviv

Frits — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:06:46 +0000

German rockband from Hannover (1965) The Scorpions will give a show, in Nokia Hall, on May 7th. They will blow a ‘Wind of Change’ in Nokia and they will probably ‘Rock You Like a Hurricane’!

See the art, meet the artists, buy the art work

Frits — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:27:25 +0000

From February the 12th until February the 16th (11:00-19:00) the Accessible Art Fair will be held at the Old Jaffa Antiquities Museum (10, Mifratz Shlomo Street, Jaffa). The Art Fair brings you a great selection of contemporary art from all over the world with established artists like: Yonathan Levy, Sigal Yaar, Michel Levi, Abba Richmann, Jonathan Kil Lev, Rachel Yedid, Caroline Avoth, Anna Laura Millaci, Nadia Schoenzwytt, Clemens Briels, Dirk Wagemans and many, many more…

Telavivi comic book shop Comics N’ Vegetables wins international award

Ed — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:55:15 +0000

Comic book store Comics N’ Vegetables (CNV), did win the prestigious 2011 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, the third ever store outside North America since 1993. The award is granted to a store that has “done an outstanding job of supporting the comic art medium in the community and witin the industry at large”. CNV has done this job in Israel with verve since 2001, first with an online retail website and in 2005 started with a store. The criteria for judging include: Support of a wide variety of innovative material. Providing opportunities for creators’ material to reach buyers; stocking a diverse inventory. Knowledge. Working to stay informed on retailing as well as on the comics field. Community activity. Promoting comics to the community; maintaining relationships with schools and libraries; keeping active in social, business, and arts community organizations. Quality of store image. Innovative display approaches; using store design creatively. Adherence to standard ethical business practices. Founders ...

Tel Aviv celebrates being on first place as Best of Gay Cities 2011

Frits — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:52:54 +0000

“We are a free city and everybody can be proud of it”… was the reaction this afternoon of mayor Ron Huldai of Tel Aviv-Yafo, during a trip with a closed bus (the planning was an open top bus, but it kept raining this afternoon in Tel Aviv – unique ;-) ) after the awesome news this morning that in a competition of American Airlines the city of Tel Aviv was declared the Best of Gay Cities 2011.. Mazzal Tov!

Breaking News: Tel Aviv Best of Gay Cities 2011

Frits — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:23:48 +0000

An competition by American Airlines did put Tel Aviv, a few hours ago, on the top spot as Best of Gay Cities 2011. The winning margin for Tel Aviv was enormous: Tel Aviv: 43%, New-York City: 14 % and Toronto: 7%. Tel Aviv: Congrats!!! :-D Gay Pride Tel Aviv

Even more bike lanes for Tel Aviv

Frits — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:13:46 +0000

The Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo will spent another NIS150 million (30 million euro) in the next five years on building 150 km of new bike-lanes in the city. Fourteen years ago, Tel Aviv did not have even one bicycle path. As for today the city has more then 100 kilometers of paths, trails and lanes. According to a 2010 municipal poll, 38 percent of Tel Aviv residents own a bicycle. The now familair green bikes in the city (the rental program Tel-O-Fan began last spring) have logged more then 280.000 (!) seperate rides. In the light of this enormous success (and therefore high demand) Tel-O-Fan will install 50 additional stations (with 500 more bicycles) around the city this year. Another great effort by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, because everybody, who is walking the streets of Tel Aviv this days, knows that more bike-lanes are needed asap. [find every article on bikes on ...

Bossa nova evening in Cafe Yaffo

Frits — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:46:14 +0000

Israeli/Brazilian singer Elisete Retter, will give a swinging hommage to the bossa nova, accompanied by guitarest Ben Ravitz on February 4th. (21:00) at Cafe Yaffo (Olei Zion Street 1, Jaffa). Elisete, who immigrated 20 years ago to Israel, will sing Brazilian classic tunes from the bossa nova masters Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Morais and songs from her albums: ‘Luar e Cafe, Longings and My Colors’.

Premiere documentary The End at Cinematheque Tel Aviv

Frits — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:43:05 +0000

On last Monday evening, December the 19th, the premiere took place of the documentary Sof LeSipur (The End), directed by Barak Heymann in the beautiful new wing (opened 3 weeks ago) of the Cinematheque Tel Aviv. In the documentary Barak follows three divorce stories in Tel Aviv, each at a different stage of the process. The documentary will be screened in 5 episodes (each 30 minutes) on Yesdoco (Israeli tv); the 1st. episode will be screened on Wednesday, January 11th. at 21:00. The theme song The End is performed by Itamar Rotschild and Shirley Kunis.

Neo-Romantic building in the Ha-Hasmal Street beautiful restored

Frits — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:13:34 +0000

The Neo-Romantic building, designed in 1924, in the Ha-Hasmalstreet no.10 is a real beauty again after 18 month of restoration-work. The now colorful facade is shining: a great job is done here!!