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Pre 22 godine iy Nisa sam dobila na poklon stihove pesme...in Kazandžijsko sokače (Coppersmith's Alley)
Najbolja jagnjetina u gradu, uz Bovinovu tamjaniku -...in Mali podrum (English explanation or translation: Small Basement)
Totalni neprofesionalizam,već drugi put ,iako sam...in Оrač (English explanation or translation: The Plowman)
Pa jel ima salata il nema?! Samo dunja i kisela?in Kod Šipe-Kamenički vis (At Šipa's-Kamenički vis Resort)
Haaahhha. I'm not too bright today. Great post!in Оrač (English explanation or translation: The Plowman)
Interesting facts
The Bermuda Triangle
"The Bermuda Triangle" in Belgrade consisted of the kafanas "Šumatovac", "Pod lipom" (in English "Under the Lime Treee") and "Grmeč" and got its name after the real "Bermuda Triangle" since the journalists and the writers who...
Literature
When Cafes Were Nowhere in Sight
In the 19th century, Kragujevac's kafanas were meeting places of social life where theatre plays were played, newspapers started, literary circles formed and people politically agitated. Old kafanas, their names to be more precise, are a special landmark in space, but also in time and history...
How Niš's Bohemian, Avda Zekić, Saved Tito
How Niš's Bohemian, Avda Zekić, Saved Tito
In the city where Bata Živojinovič, Boris Dvornik, Radmila Savićević, Đorđe Vukotić and many others studied acting or tried very hard to become highly accomplished on the stage of Niš's National Theatre (Mira Stupica, Padmila Savićević, Eugen Veber who was also the manager of the theatre)-hence, in a city like that having fun was pretty normal. Avda Zekić was frequently to be found sitting on the stairs of the National Theatre's, a Gypsy (which is dated) or a Romani man (which is trendy now), a famous 'Spanish Actor' who used to narrate his ' personal saga' from the war for a handful of pumpkin seeds or cigarettes given to him by the Gymnasium pupils playing hooky from the local Gymnasium:
- I say at Tito in that Spain- you're nice man, mister, you wear hat-whatchu doin' in war? Let us heroes go to war, you deal with politic, man can't be for everything... (speaking in Niš's dialect, a slang, grammatically incorrect)
Avda used to tell the biggest fabrications ever heard in Niš, he was often listened to by the officer on duty, 'a duster', who would intervene when Avda started mentioning the names of the Yugoslav politicians of that time (the way they used to chase broads and similar):
- ААААvdaaaa!!
And Avda would change the subject.
Avda loved to drink and, being a house painter, his walls used to stay semi-painted. Avda once painted a house and got drunk; then, being bored, he headed home- just like that. He said to the lady of the house:
- Ma'am, give me my money so I could leave.
- Wait here till I check what you did.
The lady entered, glanced at the wall, and saw that the upper line, the one that goes below the attic, is as curved as a sea wave.
The woman cried out:
- What's this Avda?
- THAT? Nothing ma'am. Make a bit draught, and when it dries- it'll be as straight as an arrow.
