The Red Star Café is our virtual coffee house, serving up java and magic theatre to the elusive Moscow Art Club - a gaggle of weekend beatniks who show up with goatees, sandals and bongos, clutching their dog-eared copies of Howl.

The Red Star Café blog is devoted to our fascination with art, literature, Luddite technology and leftist bohemian tree hugger conspiracies. These are best enjoyed in a subterranean hideaway with dark espresso brewing, subversive jazz smoking in the background, and steppenwolves dozing at our feet.