In Search of Šmakovka: a Latvian Region’s Four Moonshine Museums
Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apartContinue Reading →
Lysergic Blues: Vilis Kasims' Dreamlike Visions of Latvia
"That’s the duality of being kids in a village, almost all the time playing with rocks in the street – and you then go home and you have MTV, you…Continue Reading →
Disco Alliance: The Latvian Synthesiser Soundtrack to a New Soviet Documentary
"All of this gave the feeling that finally in the Soviet music shops there was a Western album available"Continue Reading →
What I Saw Walking the Baltic Way Thirty Years On
"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"Continue Reading →
Baltic Partisans on Screen: Room for Improvement
"I think that in all three programmes much too little use is made of the genuine role of women in the partisan war"Continue Reading →