February 2009

Studio Martin & SMS Sp*m

by Craig Turp February 20, 2009 Media

 We got an SMS just now, from Club Martin, telling us that Studio Martin has some German DJs playing tonight and tomorrow. The content of the message is irrelevant: this is spam. We have never signed up to any Studio Martin mailing list. Coming from a club owned and run by some fairly western-looking people [...]

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Fluff: the lifestyle mag for those with fluffy lifestyles

by Craig Turp February 20, 2009 Bucharest

 Recession? These people can’t even spell the word. Despite all considered wisdom, that which would have us believe there’s a crisis on, some wealthy people with far more money than business acumen have chosen now – of all times – to launch a fluffy lifestyle magazine. Called, simply, Fluff, the magazine will be distributed for [...]

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Nicolae Ceausescu: Victory from beyond the grave*

by Craig Turp February 19, 2009 Romania

 There’s some utterly depressing reading on Hot News today. Apparently, the European Union intends outlawing bog standard, incandescent light bulbs (yes, light bulbs) by the end of 2012. Instead, we will be forced to use expensive, ‘eco-friendly’ halogen alternatives. It is depressing enough to read this full stop. It is even more depressing reading it [...]

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SAR Annual Forecast 2009

by Craig Turp February 19, 2009 Business

 In the somewhat troubling presence of Prime Minister Little Emil Boc, the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) this week launched its eighth annual forecast report. Amongst other things, it sees unemployment remaining below the European average, and warns that the global financial criss should not be used as an excuse to postpone reform. The full report [...]

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English Language Press Update

by Craig Turp February 17, 2009 Media

 We were wrong (we know, we know. We promise, it will not happen again). Bucharest Business Week might be almost entirely in Romanian, but it does have an English page or two. We just picked up a copy in a hotel. And speaking of publications with zero advertising, what happened to Time Out Bucharest? Does [...]

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Nimbyism , Bucharest style

by Craig Turp February 17, 2009 Bucharest

 People! Not profit! My question for these muppets would be: what do they want to see built instead of the Dambovita Centre? Or would they rather the site remain as it is now? I think we should be told.

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And then there were none

by Craig Turp February 16, 2009 Media

 English-language weeklies, that is. At one stage, you couldn’t move in a Bucharest expat pub for decent weekly newspapers. Well, for a long time at least there were two (Sean Hillen’s Bucharest Business Week, and Bill Avery’s Business Review, and, if memory serves, for a while, when the excellent but short lived New Bucharest Express [...]

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