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Naďa Urbánková marks 80th birthday with gold collection
Czech pop and country music legend Naďa Urbánková is celebrating her 80th birthday with a compilation of her most famous songs spanning decades. Some listeners may know…
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Karlovy Vary film festival gets underway for 54th time
The 54th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicks off in the West Bohemian spa town on Friday evening, with Hollywood actress Julianne Moore set to be…
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New play among events celebrating 100th birthday of art patron Meda Mládková
Meda Mládková is one of those increasingly few people who have experienced the entirety of the past Czech century. She has also managed to leave her imprint on the period…
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Nylon Jail – Olomouc band produces arresting material
Olomouc-based independent band Nylon Jail display their ability to rock out to the full on their latest LP, Irreversible Changes. On the record core members Jiřin Jirák…
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New book offers Czech children growing up abroad picture of home
For the past seven years, Denisa Haubertová Šedivá has been living in Brussels with her husband, Czech ambassador to NATO Jiří Šedivý, and their two children. While…
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Czech photographer Dana Kyndrová on capturing reality, life from an (ironic) distance
Czech documentary photographer and curator Dana Kyndrová is perhaps best known abroad for her project ‘Woman between Inhaling and Exhaling’. Spanning several decades, it…
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Joan Baez’s iconic 1989 concert which featured Václav Havel as a roadie
Many Czechs remember the concert of American folk musician Joan Baez in Bratislava on 10 June 1989 as one of the signs of the approaching fall of communism. During the…
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Sculptor continues with plans for Old Town Sq. column despite lacking permit
For more than 250 years, a large Marian column stood on Prague’s Old Town Square. In 1918, it was torn down by an angry mob which saw it as a symbol of Austrian rule. Now…
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Organisers “over the moon” to secure Julianne Moore for Karlovy Vary
The biggest stars at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival will be Julianne Moore, Casey Affleck and Patricia Clarkson, with Moore’s latest feature After the Wedding set…
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Prague’s Nude Mona Lisa sent to France
A large exhibition is currently being held at France’s Condé Museum in the Domaine de Chantilly depicting the lesser-known yet seminal work of Leonardo da Vinci: the Nude…
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Czech piano legend Petr Malásek celebrates 55th birthday
Czech composer Petr Malásek is celebrating his 55th birthday. The legendary pianist has composed music for nearly 200 movies, TV series and theatre plays. His repertoire…
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Czech National Museum rejects allegedly opaque Chinese group’s gift ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Czech National Museum has rejected a gift of exceptional Chinese pottery worth some five million crowns…
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