A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

У Београду је боравио Душан Зарић, бармен и миксолог који се нашао „Форбсовој” листи 50 најутицајнијих стваралаца добрих укуса.

Добра кафа, добро пиво, вино, добар коктел, укусно јело и колач. Данашњи гости ресторана било где у свету очекују врхунску понуду и неће се вратити ако једна од тих ставки недостаје. Претње од тероризма, победе политичких опција које нису свима потаман, економска (не)стабилност, нису промениле традиционални однос бармена и госта.

– И даље свако ко уђе у локал и седне за шанк очекује да, уз капљицу и залогај, и ћаскање са барменом „отупи бол” свакодневице – каже за „Политику” Душан Зарић, бармен, миксолог и власник „Employees only”, једног од најбољих коктел барова у свету, који је ових дана боравио у родном Београду.

Glumac Svetozar Cvetković dobio nagradu kritike za najboljeg glumca na 50. filmskom festivalu Vorldfest (Worldfest) u Hjustonu.

Cvetković je priznanje dobio za ulogu u filmu "You Go To My Head", koji je režirao belgijski producent i reditelj Dimitri De Klerk, saopštila je produkcijska kuća Testament films.

- Ovo je lepa vest. Pogotovo što priznanje dolazi od ljudi koji vas ne poznaju, ili vas čak možda nisu nikad ni gledali - rekao je tim povodom Cvetković koji nije bio u mogućnosti da prisustvuje dodeli nagrada.

Фотомонографија Милована Матића представљена у једином америчком граду у коме се званично празнује 9/10. јул, дан рођења генијалног научника и изумитеља.

У америчком граду Филаделфија, држава Пенсилванија, представљена је фото-монографија „Тесла” Милована Матића, познатог, приљежног истраживача живота генијалног научника и изумитеља, чије дело и наслеђе, већ треће столеће, плене пажњу стручне и најшире јавности.

Представљање књиге и разговор с аутором уприличени су у два наврата протеклог викенда у Институту за уметност, смештеном уз Национални историјски парк САД, у коме се налази Хол независности, познато здање под заштитом Унеска, у коме је 4. јула 1776. године потписана америчка Декларација о независности.

Čačanski fotograf Damir Buzurović osvojio je bronzanu medalju na Međunarodnom salonu fotografije u "Njujork - Menhetn 2017"

Ova prestižna manifestacija održava se pod patronatom Svetske federacije umetnickih fotografa (FIAP) i Foto Saveza Amerike (PSA). U konkurenciji je bilo 11.000 fotografija iz 30 zemalja sveta, a u uži izbor je užlo sedam fotografija Damira Buzurovića.

Njegova fotografija “The story about family happiness” osvojila je treću nagradu salona.

By Sandi Radoja

[This article originally appeared in the American Srbobran, April 5, 2017]

LOUISVILLE, KY – On an unseasonably hot February day, Tom Jurich welcomed us to his third floor office on the campus of the University of Louisville. We were 2-1/2 hours early, but his door swung open wide despite our inability to jump time zones correctly.

Born and raised in Southern California, Tom Jurich of SNF Lodge #95-Lovcen-Los Angeles, was apologetic for the heat as if it was his fault. “We don’t turn the air conditioning on this early,” he said, an explanation we already heard from his receptionist who called her desktop fan her “new BFF.” We were immediately at ease, and the friendliness of the entire office far outweighed the heat.

It was Mercia Martich of Northridge, California, who sent us in the direction of the Tom Jurich story initially. She said he was a SNF member and someone to hoot about, adding, “He is not only successful, but a fine gentleman and a family man, too.”

To Preserve Serbian Cultural Heritage & to Enrich and Promote Greater Pittsburgh’s Cultural Diversity

Friday, March 17th to Saturday March 18th, 2017
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning
Room 232
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

FREE ADMISSION – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Кратки играни филм „Маестро“ Немање Младеновића, студента четврте године телевизијске режије Академије уметности у Београду, освојио је Награду признања на Међународном филмском фестивалу у Холивуду.

Маестро, који говори о заборављеним уметницима и вредностима, величанственој прошлости и незавидној садашњости, испитни је филм Немање Младеновића на катедри за Телевизијску режију у класи проф. Драгана Елчића. Главну улогу тумачи драмски уметник Милан Цаци Михаиловић.

New Yorker Milica Paranosic, originally from Belgrade, Serbia, is one of the most hardworking and appreciated composers in America. She graduated at the Music Academy in Belgrade as a composer, and after that she got her master’s degree at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, where she now teaches the technology of music. Devoted to art, music and composing, Paranosic had a very successful concert at Carnegie Hall, the most prestigious concert stage in the United States, a few years ago. She is the founder of many art projects. One of them is a festival dedicated to the electronic music called “Beyond the Machine” at Juilliard. Also, a few years ago she started an even greater multimedia project — a musical center in Harlem called Paracademia in Harlem.

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Bishop Irinej (Dobrijević)

(2016–)

On 25 May 2016 the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church elected by acclamation Bishop Irinej of Australia and New Zealand to the Throne of Bishops of Eastern America following the election of Bishop Mitrophan of Eastern America to the Throne of Bishops of Canada.

He was born in 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, to his father Djuro and mother Milica (nee Svilar). His elementary and secondary education was completed in Cleveland, Ohio. After attending the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1973–1975, he attended St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania from 1975–1979, where he graduated with a Licentiate in Theology with the academic distinction maxima cum laude. In 1980 he enrolled in St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York and graduated in 1982 with a Master of Divinity degree with Honorable Mention for his master’s thesis Bishop Nicholai Velimirovich: A 1921 Mission to America. Following which, he entertained studies at the Athens Centre in 2000 and 2003 receiving levels I and II certificates in contemporary Greek language.

He spent most of his career in the field of education. He lectured as visiting fellow at Loyola University in Chicago and visiting fellow at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade. For many years he was the co-editor of The Path of Orthodoxy, the official publication of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada.

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Serbian Americans: History—Culture—Press

by Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, translated from Serbian by Milina Jovanović

Learned, lucid, and deeply perceptive, SERBIAN AMERICANS is an immensely rewarding and readable book, which will give historians invaluable new insights, and general readers exciting new ways to approach the history​ of Serbian printed media. Serbian immigration to the U.S. started dates from the first few decades of 19th c. The first papers were published in San Francisco starting in 1893. During the years of the most intense politicization of the Serbian American community, the Serbian printed media developed quickly with a growing number of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications. Newspapers were published in Serbian print shops, while the development of printing presses was a precondition for the growth of publishing in general. Among them were various kinds of books: classical Serbian literature, folksong collections, political pamphlets, works of the earliest Serbian American writers in America (poetry, prose and plays), first translations from English to Serbian, books about Serb immigrants, dictionaries, textbooks, primers, etc.

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