Images and Videos from Latvia’s Late ’80s Dance Revolution
Latvia is regarded as the first republic of the Soviet Union where techno music and DJ culture really took holdContinue Reading →
The Unbuilt Soviet Metro System that Haunts Latvia’s Capital: Traces
“Every day you going down in subway, because you got no better place to go”Continue Reading →
Twenty Speakers, But Three Poets: Writing in Livonian
Two books of poetry originally written in the Livonian language, spoken by just twenty people, have recently appeared in English translationContinue Reading →
The Unbuilt Soviet Metro System that Haunts Latvia's Capital: Struggle
“In total, these 172 letters were signed by 1,965 people. There were 1,964 votes against the construction of the metro."Continue Reading →
The Unbuilt Soviet Metro System that Haunts Latvia's Capital: Beginnings
Riga was down for a metro – a formally and conceptually adventurous system that would have been the most expensive ever built in the Soviet UnionContinue Reading →