Marking the Season with BIPO and the Salzburg Bach Choir
The Borusan Philharmonic is one of the most popular of orchestras in Turkey. They take the stage every month or so at the Lütfi...
Review: Akram Zaatari @ SALT Beyoğlu
SALT Beyoğlu is an impressive space, with six stories of beautiful facilities (I'm personally partial to the free and clean public restroom on the...
Blues from the Delta and Chicago Meet in Turkey: Istanbul Blues...
The blues came to Istanbul on Saturday (12/12/2015), but instead of being a melancholic affair with musicians pouring their hearts out about love lost,...
Review: Red Axes Midnight Session @ Babylon Bomonti
For those who were at Bomontiada on St. Patrick's Day, you'll know it was a sloppy, high-energy affair for nearly everyone present. The holiday...
IKSV 4th Istanbul Design Biennial: Doubt and Learning in a School...
The IKSV 4th Istanbul Design Biennial: A School of Schools opened its doors on Saturday 22 September to an eagerly awaiting public. Under the...
Exploring “This Is Not Us, This Is What Remained From Us”...
Freaky Fringe Fascinated Fearsome Fabricated Forgotten Foretelling FINGERS
THIS IS NOT US,
THIS IS WHAT REMAINED FROM US
A Mixer Exhibition by
Ali Şentürk
(5 September – 12 October)
This...
Weekend Getaway: Bozcaada
Where can you feel like being on a Greek island without leaving Turkey? Look no further than the beautiful Aegean island of Bozcaada (known...
The Top 5 Yeşilçam Films
Yeşilçam, which translates to “Green Pine”, is a shorthand for Turkey's old film industry. The name comes from Yeşilçam Street, an area of Beyoğlu...
Buchbinder takes Süreyya by Storm on Seven Moonlit Nights
Suggested as pre-requisite for reading this article: Visit buchbinder.net, set Buchbinder and his Beethoven in the background, and proceed on...
This year has been a...
The Fusion Jazz of Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke
On Tuesday night, the Haliç Congress Centre came alive with the sounds of fusion jazz as Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke took to the...
Review: IKSV 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial
At its core, the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, titled The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, encourages you to think and rethink...
Turkey’s Rise on the International Fashion Scene
This week Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Istanbul (MBFWI) was set to show why more and more Turkish stylists are inching their way up the ladder...
For all the barefoot dancers: Patti Smith in Istanbul
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive...
Bizim Hikaye: ‘Shameless,’ Minus the Shame
It can be revealing, if moot, to compare an original series to an adaption, especially in terms of culture.
But what stands out immediately upon...
Dreaming the Future: The Russian Avant-Garde Exhibition
Visiting the Sakıp Sabancı museum has been on my mind since I got to Istanbul, more because of its aesthetics than anything else. The...
“Longing for Istanbul”: An Expat’s Love Letter to the City of...
Longing for Istanbul doubles as a sociological reflection on modernization processes in Turkish culture and a personal memoir that articulates what it means to...
Garden Sale, A Review of the Festivities
By Tas Anjarwalla
Imagine a summer block party in Williamsburg, New York -- people selling artsy knick-knacks and gourmet junk food, musicians jamming out unusual...
Witty Thriller: Borusan Goes A Capella with Soli-Tutti
The terms “Soli-Tutti,” “A Capella” and “Borusan” seemed interesting enough of a trilogy to entice me to attend an evening of musical discovery on...
It’s All Fun and Games with the Harlem Globetrotters
Even though I do enjoy an occasional soccer match or basketball game, I am not a big sports fan. However, I was miffed three...
ColoNie: Karaköy’s New Gem
One day I went a-wandering. I set out for an entire day of tourism, hitting some of Istanbul's must see hot-spots. I had planned...
Review: Mashrou’ Leila @ Bronx Pi Sahne
On Friday, Nov. 28, a group of friends and I were getting pumped for a concert in Istanbul that we had all been looking forward...
Review: Iron & Wine @ Babylon Bomonti
The southern United States is quite a distance from Istanbul, but that didn’t prevent Sam Beam, better known by his stage name “Iron &...
3rd Istanbul Design Biennial: An Evening at Galata Greek School
Are we human? That is the main question surrounding the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial which debuted on Saturday 22 October.
“The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial...
Visiting “Istanbul’s Seaside Leisure” at Pera Museum
This is my first visit to a Turkish museum, in Istanbul or elsewhere. When I went online to learn more on Istanbul’s museum scene,...