Reviews

Ibrahim Maalouf recently paid a visit to Volkswagen Arena to promote his album "Red & Black Light" as part of Positive Live's Looking Forward event...

Saturday night belonged to the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. The thought of a brass ensemble generally conjures up, at least for me, an image of...

Everybody knows that Istanbul is full of history and culture, so what better way to experience it than by tasting your way through both?...

Confession: I don’t know how this happened, but somehow I’ve been hanging around Istanbul for about six months now, and never stepped inside Babylon....

This review is for the true Harry Potter fans. I am not here to decide who fits into that category; you know who you...

Authentically exotic, psychedelic folk music group Flower Room’s art is digged! “Along with timbers arising within us against commotion, society and time, we reflect our...

There are times when Istanbul can be too much, at least for a country girl like me. Especially in the summer, as the sticky...

By all accounts, this year's Electric Playground, from Charm Music Turkey and Epifoni, was a huge success. Featuring the talents of headliners Marshmello and...

As to be expected, the past four years I've spent in Istanbul has seen a transition from new restaurants, new neighborhoods and the constant...

It is said that opera is the ultimate manifestation of art, that it is the pinnacle of artistry: it requires ultimate mastery of music...

Nestled in the green folds of the surrounding Maçka, against the backdrop of an Istanbul ripe for summer and buzzing with life in the...

Born in Canada to Russian parents, Michelle Gurevitch, or Chinawoman, is a happy new discovery for me, although I seem to be late to...

I discovered 2CELLOS by chance about a year ago through their cello duet cover of "Smooth Criminal." I usually do not like Michael Jackson...

Music festivals are essential to the very fabric of a quality Istanbul summer -- a yearly reminder of the city's appeal to international artists,...

The years between 1900 and 1940 were more than a little eventful for the Turks. The period saw numerous wars fought on many fronts,...

Take the wit, rich imagination and literary genius of Nobel-laureate T.S. Elliott, the musical creativity of Grammy-Tony-Golden Globe-Award winner Andrew Lloyd Weber, and the...

The year is 2019 and everything surrounding us is changing in a heartbeat. I often ask myself where the industry is going with these...

As I walked in to the Elgiz Museum’s event for their latest exhibition, "Trace 14", I immediately regretted my footwear. While throwing on clothes...

The Istanbul Music Festival is always a highlight of the summer. This is the forty-third year of the festival, and the central theme this time...

Just a couple of days after the Berlin Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra, CRR was the host of a very unique evening: they brought together on...

Just when the season looked like it couldn't possibly get any better, the Zorlu Center went above and beyond by featuring the crème de...

A twenty-nine year old artist from Diyarbakır is questioning the demolition of his hometown’s city walls, comparing his past with today’s Istanbul at his...

As any socially-inclined Istanbullu might agree, one of the greatest aspects of living in this city is the dynamism in the entertainment scene. Despite...

Tricky in Istanbul was not great. Nor was he great in Athens, according to friends who saw him there two days later on the...