He's humming to Eight these days. Almost at Gornji trg Osem, in the Osem bakery, with Eight types of fragrant bread. Andrej Gerželj is the one who gave the number eight a completely new look. With immense determination and an inspiring vision, he turned his burning passion for creating sophisticated bread works of art into the first authentic boutique bakery in our country, which brings endless warmth of irresistibly sinful flavors every day.
Armand Assante, an American actor with Irish-Italian roots, will visit Slovenia in June, where he was invited by his friend Branko Djurić as a member of the honorary committee of the Bled Film Festival. With the star of the movie King Mambo, the TV movie Gotti, the TV series Napoleon and Josephine, in which he impressed as Napoleon, we talked about the movie, his great love, music, art, inspiration...
A "specialty" cafe has opened in the center of Ljubljana on the renovated Cankarjeva street in the Moderna galerija. Moderna is not an ordinary cafe. It is a cafe with its own roastery, which ensures always freshly roasted coffee and the highest quality coffee drink.
I met Booka Shade, a cute duo synonymous with tech house and techno at the turn of the millennium, right before their performance at the InMusic festival in Zagreb. Although they claim that they are not "Berlin", I personally find it difficult to place them anywhere else than in the bubbling cauldron of the ever-faster growing and popular Berlin techno scene, where only the best are born. I talked to them about the new Galvany Street album, on which they deviated from their classic sound, but they did not impress me any less.
To cap off the long hot summer, Tobačna will welcome the third Slovenia Urban Culture Festival. The framework of the Saturday gathering will be Sladica with guests, which will prepare the ground for the Norwegian hit maker Röyksopp (So Easy, Eple, Poor Leno, Remind Me, Percent, What Else Is There, Only This Moment, Sordid Affair...). On Friday, the abandoned factory yard will host a "bloc party" with the Pure Oldies Goldies team from Ljubljana's Cvetličarna, and the always excellent David Morales will provide the authentic beat of New York house parties. After moving to Bologna, the Grammy-winner started a new label, Diridim, and entered the summer with the song Away From The Storm, new music is coming with Janice Robinson (There Must Be Love, I Make You Gaga), and apparently there will be no shortage of new music, as we intercepted him while working in a New York studio.
Dušan Tomić - Dule is a stand-up comedian, improviser, animator, interpreter, mime and theater technician. He is a multi-tasker who makes us laugh to tears. For several years in a row, he has performed at Panč, the stand-up festival, and at performances throughout Slovenia. He skilfully shows us a mirror of the current state of society, makes us laugh and makes us think. His jokes are not on the first ball and it is the latter that gives him his own stamp of originality.
A young team from Velenj, led by Elvis Halilović, won the American Kickstarter with the Ondu Pinhole project. The first edition of Pinhole Cameras in 2013 raised over fifty thousand US dollars in just seven days, which was five times more than the desired funds. Two years later, Slovenian wooden cameras with even more sophisticated "wooden technology" wrote a new success story on Kickstarter.
The pop-up festival Kurzschluss is coming to Ljubljana on April 14. The first guest of this year's edition will be Luciano, a global megastar, festival star and long-awaited winner of five Best DJ Awards.
What is influencer marketing? A phrase that is currently one of the hottest in marketing. We spoke with two partners in a new type of agency specializing in influencer marketing, namely "influencer marketing", Jan Macarol, editor and creator of various media platforms, and Filip Kržišnik, who earns his living in the field of influencer marketing at home and abroad.
Laura Unuk is anything but an ordinary 22-year-old. In addition to studying biochemistry, a large part of her time is taken up by her great love – chess. Navigating between the obligations of studying and all the chess competitions is certainly not easy, but it is much easier to manage since Laura has two assistants with her - a smartphone Huawei P50 Pro and a smart watch Huawei Watch GT 3 Pro.
The first weekend of April at Krvavac will be spent in the spirit of the best fun at the end of the ski season, which will be even more unforgettable than usual on the anniversary. Tradicionalna Luža - a unique event in which adrenaline-seeking skiers and surfers perform acrobatic tricks and spectacular jumps on a "puddle" in the middle of the ski resort - will take place this year for the tenth year in a row on the beach in Krávaška, and with a rich program, everyone who doesn't want to get really excited say goodbye to winter joys.
LMBRJK is a design studio located in Antwerp, Belgium, founded by American Jon Kleinhample and Slovenian Maša Lončarič Kleinhample. They developed the brand in the spirit of love for wood, and in their creation they use an interesting design process that combines modern digital processes of three-dimensional modeling with traditional analog processes of material processing.