Culture
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Martin Chodúr releases collection of best-known Christmas songs
Martin Chodúr, a Czech singer and the winner of the 2009 Czech Pop Idol, has released his first Christmas album called Hallelujah. It contains cover-versions of some of…
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Upcoming film on Václav Havel receives CZK 14.5 million in state funding
The Czech Film Fund will spend CZK 64 million on supporting eight upcoming feature films. The largest amount, some CZK 14.5 million, will help fund an upcoming…
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Photographer Marie Tomanová: These people bent down and saw me in the tree trunk and I was like, Hi!
US-based Czech photographer Marie Tomanová is known for her striking portrait work and often nude images of her own body interacting with nature. Right now Tomanová’s…
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Monkey Business – Funk stalwarts return with Bad Time for Gentlemen
The Prague funk group Monkey Business, known for their highly entertaining live shows, have just launched their ninth LP, Bad Time for Gentlemen. Fronted by singer and…
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Simon Mawer’s Prague Spring: a complex love story amid the drama of 1968
When the novel The Glass Room by the British writer Simon Mawer was published in 2009 it was an instant hit, and it was no surprise when it was shortlisted for the Man…
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Czech Center chief Barbara Karpetová: If you commit yourself to the mission, New York will pay it…
When I visited New York in September I heard nothing but praise for the work of the city’s Czech Center in recent years. Much of the credit for this belongs to Barbara…
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Karel Gott releases new CD
Karel Gott is unquestionably one of the most successful figures in the history of Czech show business. Over the course of his career, spanning over six decades, he…
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Expat musician Geoff Tyson turns adversity into new song, album
Prague-based musician Geoff Tyson released his first music video in four years last month. “Spotlight” pays tribute to a handful of high-profile musicians who have…
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Czechoslovakia’s secret Cambridge students
You may be surprised to hear that one of the events to mark the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia was held at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge…
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Concrete administration building wins Czech architecture prize
David Kraus’s administration building in Strančice won this year’s annual Czech architecture award. The building was praised by an international jury for its regional…
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Gail Papp on Václav Havel among New York’s hippies – and under house arrest in communist…
Taking advantage of relative liberalisation at home, the young Václav Havel visited New York in the spring of 1968 for the US premiere of his second major play, The…
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Folk and chanson singer Radůza and her latest album Man with a White Dog
Folk and chanson singer Radůza, one of the brightest lights on the Czech music scene, has just released a new album titled Man with a White Dog.
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