The Botany of Desire is a new documentary that explores the history and evolution of some most common plants today: apple, potato, tulip and cannabis. Michael Pollan, the director, tells the story from the plant’s point of view and explores how we, humans, helped these plants to evolve and succeed. This exceptionally well done documentary presents some interesting facts from the plant’s history and science. The author connects these most popular plants with our drives and desires and assigns each one to a specific plant which managed to dominate it.    more »

Oksana, Olinda and Cassy performed their belly dances at the South San Francisco Retirement Center on Father's Day June 20, 2010 as part of Arabesque Belly Dance Troupe. This is a second year, the Retirement Center invites this troupe to perform. Here are the videos from two of the dances.   more »

I recently found an excellent all organic bread in Trader Joe's. It reminds me of the Ukrainian Gray Bread (seryj hleb). It's got a thick crust and a grayish softer middle. It tastes great and has only 3 ingredients: Organic Whole Wheat Flour, Filtered Water, Sea Salt.   more »

San Francisco night club called "1015", named by its address on Folsom street, has a new light technician with noticably new lighting skills. This video snippet was captured during Dubfire's May 22, 2010 performance. See for yourself.    more »

Amidst budget cuts and lay offs, arts programs are usually the first ones to go, but not at South San Francisco High School. They managed to keep their Ballet Folklorico Alma de Mexico alive and thriving for almost 20 years, performing, educating, earning awards and engaging teens in the community with something more than fun.   more »

On April 9, 2010 during the annual Arts on Fire Festival, Arabesque Belly Dance Troupe gave another fiery belly dance performance. Here are the video snippets of some dances.   more »

Some serious dancing went on in Ruby Skye last night [Feb 19th, 2010]. Cosmic Gate was responsible for the music, everybody else for something hard to describe in words..   more »

It is about 4pm at the Civic Center Bart Station and there is a long snaky line of people moving two steps at the time, climbing up from the Bart station, screaming in excitement. The Grove Street is lined up with people on both sides, waiting to meet up with friends, texting, calling, puking.   more »

Oksana welcomes everyone to Ukraine where National Geographic, among other American channels, is broadcasted with Russian translation.
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Believe it or not, this is the term Ukrainians use to refer to their modern country. Some believe that the Orange Revolution of 2004 when presidential elections were falsified to proclaim victory of an ex-convict and then "made right" by proclaiming current president Yuschencko, has all been a set up by American political forces.   more »

Burning Man 2009 - Evolution (Burning Man time lapses) video By Ben Wiggins.   more »

In the continuing tradition of bringing party into your home, NOR DJS from Chicago just released a new song. It is available for your downloading pleasure, free of charge.   more »