Month: May 2014

  • Tehran Got a Makover

    These days  when you’re walking or driving through Tehran, you could clearly see that the mega city has a thrive to show that it can be beautiful too. The Murals created by Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo brought a new look to a mega town that usually suffocates from polluted air made by  more than a…

  • "Fancy" the No. 1 Song on Billboard Charts

    Iggy Azalea’s song “Fancy”,  is the number one song on the music charts. The video already got close to 60 million viewers and counting. The electro-rap track, featuring Charli XCX, has everything that a hit song needs, from the savvy media presentation to mischievous beat and an undertone hip-hop chants… It says nothing in particular…

  • New Survey On Why Couples Divorce

    New Survey On Why Couples Divorce

    A new survey by a British family law firm asked 1,000 divorcees about their separation and came up with top ten reasons why the couples pulled the trigger and separated from their supposed eternal togetherness.   http://www.slatergordon.co.uk/family-and-personal-matters/slater-and-gordons-guide-to-family-law-family-law-made-simple/

  • Why British Couples Divorce

    Why British Couples Divorce

          A new survey by a British family law firm asked 1,000 divorcees about their separation and came up with top ten reasons why the couples pulled the trigger and separated from their supposed eternal togetherness.

  • Anthology of Short Story by Iranian Diaspora

    Published as an e-book, Incubus, ( بختك-“Bakhtak“in Farsi) is a collection of fifty seven horror, at times blunt, stories written in Farsi by different Iranian writers, living inside and outside Iran. According to his forward to the book, Mehdi Ganjavi, who along with Mehrnaz Mansoori and Naser FarzinFar, oversaw the project from start to finish,…

  • Persian Epic Dance

    “Sohrab and Gordafarid” is inspired by the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), a masterly rendition of Iran’s national history in verse by Ferdowsi. Sohrab is born of a night of love between the great Persian hero Rostam and Princess Tahmineh, the daughter of the king of Samangan. Seeking his father, Sohrab goes to Persia. Although still…

  • Endless Love

    Romantic ideology still has its allure, but the idea that passion can last a lifetime has lost credence in modern times. One argument against enduring intensity comes from thinking rooted in the work of the great 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza: emotions occur when we perceive a significant change in our situation. Change cannot last…

  • Fiddler on the Roof & Iranian Jewish Wedding

    To see a truly happy gathering of Iranian Jewish community and a charming Iranian Jewish man that suddenly comes in a wedding like Fiddler on the Roof and dances an Iranian hit song is heartwarming. Post by Ali Sadeghi.

  • Zahra Fakhraee’s Cartoons

    Zahra Fakhraee’s Cartoons

  • An Entire Relationship In Just 5 Minutes

  • Famous Photographer of the Front Page

    Famous Photographer of the Front Page

    “I’m more interested in being good than being famous,” the photographer Annie Leibovitz has said. But by elevating celebrity portraiture to an art, she has become as renowned as many of her subjects. Her first Experience as a professional photographer was in her college years when the Rolling Stone, hired her to take a portrait…

  • Unforgettable Love Sentence in Iranian TV series

    “I fell in love at exactly fifteen minutes to three, on a hot summer afternoon”, narrates Saeed, the main character of the Dayee Jaan Napoleon (Uncle Napoleon) TV series. As he is looking at the old clock, showing 2:45, Saeed, gradually, takes us through a journey of becoming of age. And what follows, is a…

  • Iran Among World’s 20 Drunkest Countries

    Iran Among World’s 20 Drunkest Countries

    In one account, Belarus, Moldova and Russia are the biggest drinkers in the world but those figures only tell part of the story. Not everyone drinks and if you exclude non drinkers, the ranking will change. By this measure, France drinks a lot, but because it has one of the lowest rate of abstainers at…

  • Wondering more about the Coen Brothers’ latest film

    The Coen Brothers are no help and never will be. Go ahead and ask them. Fresh Air’s Terry Gross recently tried. She asked them how they write their films. “It’s mostly napping,” Ethan Coen answered. The Coen Brothers have been evading answers for about 30 years now, since Blood Simple came out in 1984. Asked…

  • Tehran, City of Lies

    Tehran, City of Lies

      Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian writer and journalist. She works as a reporter for Channel 4’s foreign affairs series Unreported World. Her investigative journalism from the countries that struggle through crises such as Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Egypt, El Salvador and specially Syria brought her an Emmy award. While working as Tehran correspondent for THE TIMES…

  • Live Video Stream of Earth From Sky

    One of the latest missions from the ISS is kind of amazing. The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment consists of four cameras that have been attached outside of the ISS. Though temperature is controlled, the cameras are exposed to the radiation from the sun, which will allow astronauts to understand how radiation affects the…

  • Iranian Artist's Self Portrait

    Photography and Styling by Pedram Penhan Hair by F.D.Z hair and makeup ©Penhan / پنهان  

  • the Art of Sleeping Alone

    Sophie Fontanel is the best selling French author of L’envie, (desire), a book on her account of more than ten years of celibacy, that just came out in the US under the title: “the Art of Sleeping Alone”. Sophie tells the provocative story of her decision to stop having sex at the age of twenty…

  • Dig Me in Hip hop Cemetery

    Dig Me in Hip hop Cemetery

    They have got everything, well almost, they couldn’t bring the girls bu the big old engine  Chevrolet, tattoos, ear rings, oversize tee-shirts, graffiti, skate boarding and the attitudes are much like the old time Block party rap. When for the first time in 1979, The Sugarhill Gang  cast a phrase: “I said a hip, hop…

  • Frightening Cartoonist

    Zlatkovsky is an artist of grand visions, creator of visual worlds, even visual universes. Creative visions, existential, sometimes frightening, sometimes beautiful. Visualization of thoughts, values, love, life and sex, political concepts, portrayal of intellectual models… He was growing in Russian family with its traditions, but had an opportunity to taste European artistic culture, to better…

  • Erotic Republic

    Erotic Republic

    When someone mentions Iran, what images leap into your mind? Ayatollahs, religious fanaticism, veiled women? How about sexual revolution? That’s right. Over the last 30 years, as the mainstream Western media has been preoccupied with the radical policies of the Islamic Republic, the country has undergone a fundamental social and cultural transformation. While not necessarily…

  • Hatsune Miku, the Virtual Singer

    Hatsune Miku, the Virtual Singer

    Hatsune Miku, whose name means, “first sound of the future,” is a singing voice synthesizer with a humanoid persona, created by Crypton Future Media, Inc. and featured in over 100,000 songs released worldwide. In Japan, Hatsune Miku is a major phenomenon that grew out of fan-created songs. She has appeared in numerous popular video games…

  • Are Men Always Like That

    ٍُThere are many scientific  researches and reports that try to articulate men and their sexual behaviors including monumental studies left from Alfred Kinsey but are men always like the one we see in this funny video clip?  

  • More Obese in the World Than Suffering From Hunger

    The new book published by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations explained the fact that there are more obese in the world than suffering from hunger. based on the research presented in the book, Barbara Burlingame one of the agency’s principle officer said that for 925 million critically hungry people, there are…

  • Modern Logic and Buddhist philosophy

    Western philosophers have not, on the whole, regarded Buddhist thought with much enthusiasm. As a colleague once said to me: ‘It’s all just mysticism.’ This attitude is due, in part, to ignorance. But it is also due to incomprehension. When Western philosophers look East, they find things they do not understand – not least the…

  • Bizzare Vintage Advertisment

    Nowadays we can’t even pace the changes that happen in the values and manners on daily bases therefore these ads are defiantly bizarre. Ad that shows newborn drinking 7up or ad that tries to sell cigaret by making fun of women.

  • Mysterious Auction

    Mysterious Auction

      Medical student under the pseudonym Elizabeth Raine who put her virginity on auction since spring of the last year closed her Bidding auction on May 7. Highest Bid for Elizabeth Raine’s Virginity Is $801,000. Instead of all the hype she decided not to have sex for now and instead focus on her medical studies.…

  • Cartonist Who Didn’t like Politicians

    Cartonist Who Didn’t like Politicians

    One of the most famous caricaturist of the world David Levin who has an archive of more than 4,000 published works, didn’t like the politicians. As a left wing artist, he did his best to show the real face of the politicians in America and all around the world. His well known dislike of Kissinger…

  • The 10 Strang Facts About Men's Private Part

    Men sexual organ not only helps to creates life but also is one of the biggest cause of war and the same time art and culture. The drive to repeat our characteristics and identity indeed is a form of immortality that nature allowed us to practice. Nature also went through million years of trial and…

  • If You Live Near A Park, You're More Likely To Be Happy

    If you want to be happy, living near a park could be a good idea. More and more research shows a relationship between green space and higher levels of mental health. The latest comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researchers looked at 2009 survey data that asked 2,500 residents about depression, anxiety, and stress. They…

  • ‘Anaface,’ A Website That Tells You’re Ugly Or Not

    ‘Anaface,’ A Website That Tells You’re Ugly Or Not

    This is the newest and simplest App that can basically define attractiveness via automation. So no matter how sophisticated, content or confident you are, the programmer of this device already counted on the human egoistic tendency and forever love of  ‘self’. Go ahead and test out the tech and decide for yourself here.

  • You Want Ice Cream? Come on Get It

    You Want Ice Cream? Come on Get It

    One of  our  magazine’s contributor Shahin Eghanian and his wife Elnaz  while  honeymooning in Turkey, send us a pretty video that shows an ice cream parlor in Istanbul plus a craftsmanship that comes with it. photos and video: Shahin Eghanian

  • Portrait of a Girl – 0 to 14 years in 4 min

    Days, weeks, months and years are flying by. We use to observe and even contemplate on that fact once in a blue moon but thanks to accessible technology and social networks, we can remind our self that how short and fast life goes by.

  • Lotfi Master of Persian Music

    Lotfi Master of Persian Music

                  Mohammadreza Lotfi (January 7, 1947 – May 2, 2014) spend all his life preserving and celebrating Persian classical music. He created numerous recordings with master such as, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Shahram Nazeri, Hossein Alizadeh, and Parviz Meshkatian. Lotfi was one of the best contemporary masters of the Tar…

  • The Iron Sheik of America is an Iranian

    The professional wrestler and truly an American icon “Iron Sheik” who took advantage of the conflict between Iran and America in the past few decades and made a legendary status for himself is in fact an Iranian. In 2005, the Iron Sheik was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his old rival, Sgt.…

  • Iranian Casablanca

    Iranian Casablanca

    The return of Amir’s ex girlfriend, Nazli, now married to a Deutsch citizen, makes things more complicated, stirring up long withheld emotions, desires and memories. A bridge, between old and new, the past and the future, the tradition and the contemporary, values and desires, staying and leaving, keeping and letting go. A bridge to cross…

  • Be Visible

    Part of Western culture’s  success and it’s ability to be heard and seen is coming from accenting on the presentation. As Woody Allen put it: