by Guest Author | May 15, 2020 | Locals, Society+Culture
By Hana LaRock When we look at countries around the globe who have been successful at flattening the curve and decreasing coronavirus cases, we hear about South Korea, New Zealand, Canada, and Iceland. But, one country that has not made headlines as much as her...
by Misho Zguladze | May 13, 2020 | Locals, Society+Culture
Once upon a time, there was a man, Who had tons and tons of oil wells. He drilled and killed as much he willed, Forging, gilding all his deeds. Futile were his hordes of sins, Veiling all of pogrom yields. With stygian gold he used to preach, And got himself some...
by Salome Berdzenishvili | May 12, 2020 | Locals, Society+Culture
– Do you ever wonder that the melodies that are stuck in our heads are actually rooted in our memory and connected to certain places, events, or meetings that we wish to erase or can’t forget? Strangely enough, these exact places carry the memory of...
by Guest Author | Apr 9, 2020 | Locals, Society+Culture
By Filmmaker Giorgi Tavartkiladze Tbilisi – the city I was born and raised, is stuck in my earliest memory as a post-civil-war, ruined, poor and grey space. But in spite of this, I still fell in love with her. Today, some people in Georgia say...
by Guest Author | Apr 7, 2020 | See+Do
A lot of interesting statues from both Soviet and Modern times are scattered across Tbilisi neighborhoods. Let’s take a closer look at where to find some of the most recognized statues in Georgia’s capital. ✱ Photographer Melissa Maples. Shota Rustaveli...
by Guest Author | Apr 5, 2020 | Interviews, People+Stories
By Liza Tsitsishvili I’m going to introduce to you about a young woman, Georgian film director Anuna Bukia, who had to leave her home with her parents in the 90s, during the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia. She has been living in Tbilisi, far away from her home,...
by Guest Author | Mar 24, 2020 | Interviews, People+Stories
Five Questions For Expats By Stan Gaivoronsky Assa, where did you come from and why? I moved here from Moscow because I fell in love with a Georgian guy named Gabriel. I’ve been visiting Tbilisi very frequently since last year and dreamed of making it my home...
by Guest Author | Mar 23, 2020 | Interviews, People+Stories
One of my favorite things to do is to get lost in any city and find street art, somewhere off the beaten path. While wandering in Tbilisi, I realized that I am specifically drawn to the works of TAm OOnz. I had no idea who she was. But I sensed that it was a female...
by Guest Author | Mar 22, 2020 | Business, Digital Nomads
Mila Di Bella Our three months in Bulgaria were coming to an end. It was November, and while we were looking for our next country to visit and stay for the winter, I read that there was this post-soviet country in the pursuit of opening to the world, actively...
by Guest Author | Mar 16, 2020 | Eat+Drink
Tbilisi may have more access to nature than any other major capital in the region, but we don’t spend all of our time hiking, biking, climbing rocks, and admiring the beauty around us. We live in a drinking town – with secret cocktail bars up the narrow streets,...
