GO! Issue 12: December 2, 2004 - February 10, 2005

   Zakuski

Designer Yolki Tired of Christmas trees draped with cliched tinsel and mass-produced decorations? To see how much more creatively glossy magazines’ art directors can decorate a yolka, head to Moscow State University’s Aptekarsky Botanical Gardens.

On a Roll Moscow’s first monorail rolled into action in late November, running along a track stretching 5 kilometers between metro stations VDNKh and Timiryazevskaya.

Royal Wines Some rare wines with royal pedigree will be up for grabs on Dec. 3, when Sotheby’s auction house holds a sale of “Massandra Collection” bottles from the cellars of the tsars.

Five-star Sandwiches Proving that for all his posh restaurants he’s still a man of the people, prolific restaurateur Arkady Novikov has opened a sandwich bar, Pyat Zvyozd, that is to be the first in a chain.

Snowboarding High The All-Russian Exhibition Center is soon to see the construction of a nine-story-high snowboard ramp. The ramp is to be completed by Near Year’s to host a round of the International Ski Federation Snowboard World Cup on Jan.

Zakuski Russkiye Vechera in the Big Apple The third “Russkiye Vechera” festival of Russian arts was held this autumn at 20 venues in New York City, with more than 150 participants in theater, cinema, animation, literature, poetry and other creative arts.

   Feature

Give It to Me, Baby Gift-shopping spots that put some fun in the giving.

   Streetwise

Ulitsa 1905 Goda: Rochdelskaya Ulitsa to the Moscow River

   Drinking & Dancing

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ZEPPELIN: Bagrationovsky Most, Dec. 18 One of the most successful players on Moscow’s nightlife market, the Zeppelin promotion group, celebrates its fifth birthday on Dec.

OPENING OF PENTHOUSE NO. 1: Dec. 17 With Zeppelin’s closure and Leto’s relocation and much-delayed rebirth as Osen, glamorous clubbers have been at a loose end, consoling themselves with private parties, the odd star DJ’s set and the unfriendly First club.