A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

У Београду је боравио Душан Зарић, бармен и миксолог који се нашао „Форбсовој” листи 50 најутицајнијих стваралаца добрих укуса.

Добра кафа, добро пиво, вино, добар коктел, укусно јело и колач. Данашњи гости ресторана било где у свету очекују врхунску понуду и неће се вратити ако једна од тих ставки недостаје. Претње од тероризма, победе политичких опција које нису свима потаман, економска (не)стабилност, нису промениле традиционални однос бармена и госта.

– И даље свако ко уђе у локал и седне за шанк очекује да, уз капљицу и залогај, и ћаскање са барменом „отупи бол” свакодневице – каже за „Политику” Душан Зарић, бармен, миксолог и власник „Employees only”, једног од најбољих коктел барова у свету, који је ових дана боравио у родном Београду.

Glumac Svetozar Cvetković dobio nagradu kritike za najboljeg glumca na 50. filmskom festivalu Vorldfest (Worldfest) u Hjustonu.

Cvetković je priznanje dobio za ulogu u filmu "You Go To My Head", koji je režirao belgijski producent i reditelj Dimitri De Klerk, saopštila je produkcijska kuća Testament films.

- Ovo je lepa vest. Pogotovo što priznanje dolazi od ljudi koji vas ne poznaju, ili vas čak možda nisu nikad ni gledali - rekao je tim povodom Cvetković koji nije bio u mogućnosti da prisustvuje dodeli nagrada.

Фотомонографија Милована Матића представљена у једином америчком граду у коме се званично празнује 9/10. јул, дан рођења генијалног научника и изумитеља.

У америчком граду Филаделфија, држава Пенсилванија, представљена је фото-монографија „Тесла” Милована Матића, познатог, приљежног истраживача живота генијалног научника и изумитеља, чије дело и наслеђе, већ треће столеће, плене пажњу стручне и најшире јавности.

Представљање књиге и разговор с аутором уприличени су у два наврата протеклог викенда у Институту за уметност, смештеном уз Национални историјски парк САД, у коме се налази Хол независности, познато здање под заштитом Унеска, у коме је 4. јула 1776. године потписана америчка Декларација о независности.

Čačanski fotograf Damir Buzurović osvojio je bronzanu medalju na Međunarodnom salonu fotografije u "Njujork - Menhetn 2017"

Ova prestižna manifestacija održava se pod patronatom Svetske federacije umetnickih fotografa (FIAP) i Foto Saveza Amerike (PSA). U konkurenciji je bilo 11.000 fotografija iz 30 zemalja sveta, a u uži izbor je užlo sedam fotografija Damira Buzurovića.

Njegova fotografija “The story about family happiness” osvojila je treću nagradu salona.

By Sandi Radoja

[This article originally appeared in the American Srbobran, April 5, 2017]

LOUISVILLE, KY – On an unseasonably hot February day, Tom Jurich welcomed us to his third floor office on the campus of the University of Louisville. We were 2-1/2 hours early, but his door swung open wide despite our inability to jump time zones correctly.

Born and raised in Southern California, Tom Jurich of SNF Lodge #95-Lovcen-Los Angeles, was apologetic for the heat as if it was his fault. “We don’t turn the air conditioning on this early,” he said, an explanation we already heard from his receptionist who called her desktop fan her “new BFF.” We were immediately at ease, and the friendliness of the entire office far outweighed the heat.

It was Mercia Martich of Northridge, California, who sent us in the direction of the Tom Jurich story initially. She said he was a SNF member and someone to hoot about, adding, “He is not only successful, but a fine gentleman and a family man, too.”

To Preserve Serbian Cultural Heritage & to Enrich and Promote Greater Pittsburgh’s Cultural Diversity

Friday, March 17th to Saturday March 18th, 2017
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning
Room 232
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

FREE ADMISSION – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Кратки играни филм „Маестро“ Немање Младеновића, студента четврте године телевизијске режије Академије уметности у Београду, освојио је Награду признања на Међународном филмском фестивалу у Холивуду.

Маестро, који говори о заборављеним уметницима и вредностима, величанственој прошлости и незавидној садашњости, испитни је филм Немање Младеновића на катедри за Телевизијску режију у класи проф. Драгана Елчића. Главну улогу тумачи драмски уметник Милан Цаци Михаиловић.

New Yorker Milica Paranosic, originally from Belgrade, Serbia, is one of the most hardworking and appreciated composers in America. She graduated at the Music Academy in Belgrade as a composer, and after that she got her master’s degree at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, where she now teaches the technology of music. Devoted to art, music and composing, Paranosic had a very successful concert at Carnegie Hall, the most prestigious concert stage in the United States, a few years ago. She is the founder of many art projects. One of them is a festival dedicated to the electronic music called “Beyond the Machine” at Juilliard. Also, a few years ago she started an even greater multimedia project — a musical center in Harlem called Paracademia in Harlem.

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Richard Milanovich

Birth: Dec. 4, 1942, Banning, Riverside County, California, USA
Death: Mar. 12, 2012, Rancho Mirage, Riverside County, California, USA

Born to an Indian mother and Serbian father, Richard M. Milanovich grew up in poverty in Palm Springs, living in a shack and receiving government handouts of surplus food. He served as in infantryman in the United States Army from 1960-1963, and later returned to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Reservation to engage in tribal politics. Eventually he was elected Chairman of the Band in 1984, and became a major figure in the development of casino operations on Indian land in the region and California. Through his vision and leadership, the Agua Caliente Band became the most prosperous group of Indians in the United States, and were able to make major contributions to the economy of the Palm Springs area. As Chairman, he was invited to the White House to consult with the President and other political officials. California Governor Jerry Brown, Congresswoman Mary Bono-Mack, Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet, and Tribal Chairpersons from throughout California all eulogized Chairman Milanovich at the memorial service held in his honor held at the Palm Springs Convention Center. He was buried in a service attended by family and close friends.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0