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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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Tel Aviv Fashion Week: first one after 30 years

November 23rd, 2011 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, the first Tel Aviv Fashion Week (after 30 years) opened with dozens of shows, events and a special guest: the famous Italian designer Roberto Cavalli. The Fashion Week is taking place at the beautifully restored Tachana compound (the old Jaffa trainstation) between Jaffa and Neve-Tsedek. Let’s bring Tel Aviv back to the fashion capital of the Middle-East! … 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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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 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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CBS’ 60 Minutes explores Tel Aviv

June 1st, 2011 | Comments Off

CBS famous news magazine 60 Minutes, one of the most watched investigate television programs in the U.S., is expected to air a 12-minute report on our city: Tel Aviv. The veteran correspondent Bob Simon did visit Tel Aviv at the beginning of May and he and his crew stayed for near 4 weeks in the city!). They called Tel Aviv: “vibrant, liberal and attractive.” We keep you informed! … Read entire article »

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TEL O FUN, rent a green bike in Tel Aviv has started

May 22nd, 2011 | 3 Comments

Since this month (May 2011) you can rent a bike in Tel Aviv, based on the famous Dutch “Witte Fietsen Plan” (White Bike Plan) (see our article before). The Tel Aviv Municipality invested NIS 100 million ($25 million) in the so called: Tel O Fun rent a bike. More then 2.000 green bikes you will find at the so called ‘docking stations’ around Tel Aviv. The system works with credit cards (the Amsterdam bike … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv named hot summer party spot by hotelscombined.com

May 11th, 2011 | Comments Off

Tel Aviv has been named one of the top 10 hottest summer party spots for 2011 by ‘HotelsCombined.com’, a leading hotel price comparison search-engine. Tel Aviv ranked number nine on the list and is described as: “home to some of the hottest nightclubs in the Middle-East…”. Tel Aviv: Keep on Rocking!!! … Read entire article »

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Troubles, troubles, troubles in paradise… and in- and around Habima Theater

April 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

We wrote many times on Tel Aviv Fever about the ‘strange’ restoration project of the Habima Theater done by architect Ram Karmi. But now also the designer of the new plaza near Habima: the sculptor Dani Karavan joined the chorus of complaining about the whole project and the two top ” artists ” are blaming each other! In this article by Noam Dvir in the Haaretz Magazine: “Squaring off in Tel Aviv”, Dani Karavan has … Read entire article »

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