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Telavivi comic book shop Comics N’ Vegetables wins international award

January 17th, 2012 | Comments Off

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 … Read entire article »

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

January 11th, 2012 | Comments Off

“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 … Read entire article »

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Breaking News: Tel Aviv Best of Gay Cities 2011

January 11th, 2012 | Comments Off

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 … Read entire article »

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Even more bike lanes for Tel Aviv

January 7th, 2012 | Comments Off

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 … Read entire article »

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

December 21st, 2011 | Comments Off

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!! … Read entire article »

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Bauhaus building as set for new Israeli movie

November 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

A Bauhaus-building in the Dov-Hoz Street no. 8 was used a few weeks ago as set for a new Israeli feature: Snails in the Rain, directed by Yariv Mozer, produced by Hila Aviram and based on a short story by Yossi Avni Levy. It is the first feature of Yariv Mozer, who made different award’s winning documentaries. Yossi Avni Levy is a famous Israeli writer and diplomat, today you will find him in Belgrade. In … Read entire article »

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‘Life in Stills’ wins its first international award!

October 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Last evening, the touching documentary: Life in Stills,directed by Tamar Tal and produced by Barak Heymann, did win its first international award: the Talent Dove of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig at the 54th. International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Life in Stills is the story about Miriam Weissenstein and her grandson Ben to keep their famous shop Photo House Pri-Or at the spot it was since 1940: at Allenbey-street no. 30. Miriam, … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv to roll out free public WiFi

October 16th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Another great move by the Tel Aviv Municipality: they announced this week that it plans to roll out free wireless internet in parks, boulevards, commercial districts and beaches throughout the city in 2012. Among many others, free wireless Internet (wifi) service is planned to strech along the length of Dizengoff, Ben-Yehuda and Ibn Gvirol Streets, and Ben Gurion, Nordau, Rothschild and Yerusalayim Boulevards, along the beach, starting from Jaffa/Yafo. Ron: You did it again!! … Read entire article »

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Documentary The Flat wins an Ophir Award 2011

September 25th, 2011 | Comments Off

Last Thursday-evening 98 minutes documentary The Flat, directed by Arnon Goldfinger received the Award for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards 2011 (the ‘Israeli Oscars’). It is the story about the grandparents of Arnon, who were living on the 3rd. floor of a Bauhaus building at 31, Gordon Street in Tel Aviv. Arnon says about his documentary: “…My grandparents lived on the 3rd. floor since 1935, when they immigrated to Palestine. The flat was furnished with … Read entire article »

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The first Slideluck Potshow in Tel Aviv

September 20th, 2011 | Comments Off

After New-York, London, Sao Paulo, L.A., Barcelona, Nairobi,Chicago, Mexico-City, Copenhagen, Toronto, Sevillia, Rome, Bogota, San Francisco, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Bucharest, Berlin, Panama-City, Montreal and New Orleans… The first Telavivi Slideluck Potshow took yesterday-evening (September 19th.) place in Tel Aviv at the old town-hall (Beit Ha-Ir, Bialik Square). The Slideluck Potshow is a New-York based, non-profit arts organization, that provides an opportunity for artists and art-appreciaters to gather around food, friends and artwork. The event, which began in … Read entire article »

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The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina

July 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

Last Saturday afternoon I did visit an afternoon-party at the Shampina Bar on Rothschild Boulevard 32. The place was crowded and swinging with the ‘to be seen folks’ of Tel Aviv. You will find the Shampina in the once Ben Nahum Hotel, the beautiful building with this special roof-top on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, designed in 1921 by Judah Magidovitch, Tel Aviv’s first city engineer. Last September restoration works started on the … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv boutique hotel Center Chic reopened

July 10th, 2011 | Comments Off

The Atlas boutique hotel chain has opened the Center Chic Hotel (former Center hotel) following a renovation of around $2.7 million/€ 1,8 million. The hotel situated on Dizengoff Square (entrance: Zamenhoff Street no. 2) includes 54 rooms and an intimate lobby with books, albums and historic films about Tel Aviv. The original Bauhaus building was designed in 1948 by Haim Meshulam and housed the Gazit Hotel. … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Laila Lavan – White Night – coming weekend

June 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

On June the 30th 2011 another Laila Lavan, ‘White Night’, will take place all over the city of Tel Aviv in celebration of the declaration by UNESCO (June 2003) that the inner-city of Tel Aviv will be a ‘World Heritage’ site. Like every year (all night) museums will be open (free of charge), there will be yoga lessons at the ‘Chandra Yoga Center’, lots of music (classic, jazz and rock ), free theater, etc…etc. For a full … Read entire article »

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