That's been a big story around the world -- from the Iberian peninsula to the islands of Indonesia.
I'm actually a fourth-generation Chicagoan if you go down some family lines. But I'm mostly of Lithuanian background (some of my relatives spoke only Lithuanian at some family holiday functions as I was growing up). I was hoping to go to Lithuania this year -- as 2009 is the year Vilnius is the Cultural Center of Europe and, I believe, Lithuania celebrates its 1,000th anniversary.
Doing anything for that?
Cultural Center of Europe at one time few moths back, there where talks of canceling it and giving it to another city, thank god there werent much time for the to do this

The persons in charge of it arent very bright, they totaly ignored marketing for this event, i mean no advertising at all

Now they have few wallpapers by the bus stops, but thats it. Add the crisis, and you get a very deducted budget. At first there were supposed to be few good big events. But they were canceled and now its left with a lot smaller events. So if you have a program and know where you want to go, i think you can have a great time
As for 1,000th anniversary well we got our own sailboat went around the world for that
Cultural Center of Europe opening is september first, so theres still time, you can make it

And if you come here, be sure to visit our country side, its fvking awesome, i have been around europe a lot, but havent seen anything like we have here.