Business Review

A new Venera Arapu store opened in Bucharest , in the Piata Floreasca area of Bucharest. It is the Romanian designer’s first store opening in three years. The location currently accommodates the designer’s 2011-2012 collection, and creations of young designers promoted in the Vitrina.

Gaming competition DreamHack is organizing for the first time this year a Balkan chapter where teams coming from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary will compete. The event, which is organized by Computer Games and Professional Gamers League (PGL) will take place on November 5 and 6 in Constanta, at Forte Games.

Five paintings by Romanian artist Nicolae Grigorescu will be on sale at the Artmark art auction set to take place on October 20. The high number of paintings by the artist in one sale is a first for the Romanian market. The starting price for the prices is approximately 10 percent of the sale price of similar works at recent art auctions.

Like bank robbers, hit men belong to that breed of cinematic criminal that is always a bit charming, rather than the scum they are likely to be in real life. In Bruges, Wild Target and Red have mined the friendly-hit-men-on-one-last-job genre for blackly comic material in recent years.

Debbie Stowe

The European Parliament has added works by Romanian and Bulgarian contemporary artists to its art collection comprising items from EU member states. The works were bought in 2011 for a combined total amount of EUR 99,100.

The month of November looks like a busy one for concerts organizers who have managed to bring to Bucharest top music names. A list and details on the venues bellow.

A bride trudges through a sodden golf course. Dead birds fall from the sky. A boy carves a piece of wood. And an enormous planet crashes into Earth, shattering it.

Debbie Stowe

Levantin at Hanul Lui Manuc, Lipscani
Michael Barclay
You really cannot argue against my premise that Romanian restaurateurs and their respective investors are the most shortsighted and unimaginative entrepreneurs in the entire restaurant world!

After being shown at several international film festivals, among which the Locarno one, Crulic- the path to beyond (Crulic- drumul spre dincolo), the first Romanian animation film in the past 20 years, will be shown in local cinemas starting October 21.

The 15th edition of the French Film festival, set to take place between October 21-28, will see actress Carole Bouquet returning to Bucharest. The festival selection includes 22 films, nine premiers, and six Cannes movies.