1956 Hungarian Revolution Film Maker Dies: Joseph Miko, 87

One hero falls. RIP, Joseph Miko

Joseph Miko, 87; filmed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, then had to flee
Los Angeles Times
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Joseph S. Miko, a former cameraman whose extensive footage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was smuggled out of Budapest and is considered a significant piece of the documentary record of the historic national uprising against Soviet oppression, has died. He was 87.

see: http://hungarianbookstore.com/Hungary-1956.htm

Miko died of blood cancer April 28 at UCLA Medical Center, said his son, Joe.

A retired owner of camera and electronics stores in Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach, Miko was forced to flee Hungary with his family after capturing the short-lived revolution on film.

see: Imre Nagy's Daughter Dies: Died, Child of Hungary's 1956 revolution prime minister

Some of the footage that Miko shot of the massive crowds of demonstrators and fighting in the streets of Budapest was shown on "The 20th Century," a CBS documentary series narrated by Walter Cronkite. More than four decades later, Miko and his footage were featured in a segment of the four-part History Channel special "Caught on Film."

Miko's footage, which he stored in his garage for decades before donating 177 minutes' worth to the Hungarian National Film Archive in 1993, has also been used in the recent documentaries"Freedom's Fury" and "Torn From the Flag."

Biggest book to be published in Hungary

World's biggest book to be prepared in Hungary

Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county (NE) daily Eszak-Magyarorszag says a big, big book is on the way.

How big? 3.5x4 metres. That 3.5 times bigger than a ping-pong table.

Where? In a factory hall in Arnot, a north Hungarian village

Who? Gabor Varga, chief engineer of the Paper Mill of Diosgyor.

What's it made of? One tonne, 3.7-metre wide roll of paper

How many pages? Only 320.

What's it about? The Gomor-Torna karst region along the Hungarian-Slovak border. Beautiful pictures of the area.

Title? Fragile Nature

When? Late 2008.

What's the current Guinness record? 2.7x3-metre book, made in Denver, USA.

Need a smaller sized book about Hungary, or in Hungarian? Try one the places below.

Simmering Anti-Semitism Mars a Vibrant Hungary

Bigots are hurting Hungary.

Simmering Anti-Semitism Mars a Vibrant Hungary
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07anti.html
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: May 7, 2008
BUDAPEST — Ostensibly, a rock concert sparked it, reminding us that culture is not the exclusive province of liberals, certainly not here in Europe. A young woman (who knows whether she was just intending to make trouble) walked into a ticket office in the traditionally Jewish 13th District in this Hungarian capital several weeks ago and asked about Hungarica, an obscure extremist far-right band.

The woman said the ticket agents called her a fascist and threw her out. The agents said that she spouted anti-Semitic abuse when told the office didn’t handle that event. A little later somebody tossed a Molotov cocktail outside the office. Then a blogger, Tamas Polgar

Got Gulyás? Hungarian T-shirt

Got Gulyás?

Goulash is the way English speakers spell it.

Spell it the way all of Hungary spells it.

Find it on bibs, t-shirts, for men, women and babies!
http://www.cafepress.com/gulyas

International Book Festival opens in Budapest

International Book Festival opens in Budapest
Xinhua
BUDAPEST, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian Cultural Minister Istvan Hiller opened the 15th International Book Festival in Budapest on Thursday. The Book Festival this year offers over 50000 volumes by 600 Hungarian and foreign publishers.

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HUNGARY: Left Turn by Right Brings Upheaval

Makes all the challenges in the US Presidential Election look simple.

HUNGARY: Left Turn by Right Brings Upheaval
IPS
By Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST, Apr 23 (IPS) - Hungary's governing coalition has announced it is splitting up, leaving the socialists in a minority government, and so prolonging the biggest crisis of the left since state socialism collapsed in 1989.

Hungary's Hotties to Race in High Heels

Hungary's Hotties to Race in High Heels
Pestiside
By Zoltán Csipke The most famous race annually held in Hungary is when the Formula 1 racing circuit comes over and the Hungarian Gran Prix is held at the Hungaroring in Your Peanut Mogyoród, which is invariably described as pretty damn boring. Racing enthusiasts and readers of Obscure Sports Quarterly should then be glad to know that a new kind of race will be held on Budapest's Erzsébet tér on May 10, reports stop.hu. The race itself will be a 100 meter dash to be completed in 3 inch heels, which from another source we discovered will be imaginatively called the Glamour Stiletto Run Budapest 2008. Who says our races are boring now?

So far, named participants are Zita Debreczeni, Eszter Valkó, Krisztina Bodri and Vanda Dombovári, who are probably somewhere in the photo above. As opposed to these gag events raising money for some good cause, the reported aim of this event is to show that "fashion-conscious trendy women can also have a passion for running." Umm, well, that sure beats helping out a charity or raising awareness for some disease...

Queen Latifah, Jamie Oliver, Denise Richards

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Denise Richards eltüntette a Charlie Sheen-tetkóját

Hírek: Hortoné lesz a Húsvét

Harrison Fordék Jamie Olivert akarják az esküvői menühöz

Fellángolt a polgárháború Srí Lankán

Újabb rendbontók képeit közölte a rendőrség

Milner AirCar: autó, ami repül

Budapest - az ápolt villamosok városa

Budapest - az ápolt villamosok városa

Újabb BKV-sztrájk készül

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Alternatív javaslatok a BKV járatcsökkentése helyett

Arthur C. Clarke, Mars, Hubble

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Szabad szemmel is látszó gammakitörés hét és fél milliárd fényév távolságból!

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A hét csillagászati képe - A távolodó Mars

Hungary's highest mountains snow-covered

Hungary's highest mountains snow-covered

MTI
Budapest, March 22 (MTI) - Ten centimetres of snow was reported on Saturday by the meteorologist on call at Hungary's highest peak, Kekesteto, in the northeast. It has been snowing in the Matra mountains since two in the morning, Erno Zvara told

Budapest, Hungary - A European Bargain

London most expensive, dirty city in Europe: survey

AFP

Prague was elected the best bargain city, followed by Budapest and Lisbon. Despite the weak dollar, half of the Americans surveyed said they planned to visit Europe this year, the same number as last year.

Juliet: A Dialogue About Love - Hungarian-themed play opens, tours US

Hungarian-themed play opens, tours US

Juliet: A Dialogue About Love

An Eastern European Juliet set during the times of darkest dictatorship and without a Romeo: this, in a single sentence, is the essence of András Visky's drama, a "dialogue" in which the Transylvanian writer has documented the true story of his parents. In 1939, his father fled from Romania to Hungary, where he was to meet his future wife.

After World War II they decided to return to Transylvania, by then a part of Romania again, because, as he said, a servant of God must always choose the hard way. His father was sentenced to 22 years in prison; his mother remained alone with the seven children without even a knowledge of the language. They were deported to the Romanian Gulag a thousand kilometres from their home. But Juliet was not ready to give up her freedom and deny her love, and instead she decided to find a way out. Although Juliet is performed by just one actress, it brings alive a multitude of stories, objects, places and situations, with even God stepping onto the scene as the main protagonist in Juliet's escape. Juliet has been on the programme of the Thália Theatre in Budapest for three seasons, playing to full houses. Visky is working on the screenplay of Juliet for the company Eurofilm.

http://www.juliet-tour.com/calendar.html

CITA Conference, Huntington University, February 23rd.

Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, March 22nd

New Life Lakeview, Chicago, IL, March 30 and 31

Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Lansing, IL, April 11 and 12.

Moody Bible Institute, June 16thDoor Creek Church, Madison, WI - July 22, 2007

Lafayette Forum Theater, Wicker Park (Chicago), IL

October 4th, Thursday at 7:30 and 9:30 at the Prop Shop on the campus of Spring Arbor University

Lyon Hall, in the Chapel/Fine Arts building on the campus of Oklahoma Wesleyan University

The John Waldron Arts Center
http://artlives.org/december.html

Hungarian leaders mourn US Congressman Tom Lantos

Hungarian leaders mourn US Congressman Tom Lantos

MTI (Subscription)

Budapest, February 11 (MTI) - Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom will express his condolences over the death of US Congressman Tom Lantos in a private letter addressed to the family, the president's press chief Ferenc Weber told MTI on Monday.

5-minutes with Hungarian Aniko Kalovics

5-minutes with Hungarian Aniko Kalovics
European Athletics
Currently the Hungarian record holder in 5km, 10km and the Marathon, this 30-year-old consistent high performing runner, is gearing up to make the transition to become a full blown Marathon runner with her eyes set firmly on London 2012!

To read what the keeper of this blog is running, see The Runner's Dilemma

In Hungary, Roma Get Art Show, Not a Hug (NYT)

In Hungary, Roma Get Art Show, Not a Hug

New York Times
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: February 6, 2008
BUDAPEST — A show of contemporary Romany art just closed on Sunday here at the National Gallery, Hungary’s grandest museum. The exhibition was the latest nod to Europe’s most despised, and this country’s largest, minority. It came and went uneventfully, which itself was an event, considering the rise this autumn of the Hungarian Guard, a right-wing extremist group, which has made much news dressing up in paramilitary outfits recalling the Nazi era, ranting about “safeguarding national culture and traditions” and marching on a village against what it said was Romany crime there. Nobody is quite sure how extensive the group is or whether it is just good at grabbing headlines.

But the Roma were perfectly sure what “safeguarding national culture” meant.

Around the same time that the guard held everyone’s attention, a Slovak-Hungarian artist named Ilona Nemeth decided to put up bright yellow signs along a stretch of Kiraly Street in a traditionally Jewish but now ethnically mixed part of the city. In the languages of the local residents she posted questions based on the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, which measures the willingness of people to engage in social contacts: passersby were asked (to ask themselves, in effect) whether they would welcome so-and-so, from a different ethnic group, as a tourist, a colleague, a spouse, a fellow citizen. more