Culture
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NaFilM: Czech film students’ National Film Museum project set to premiere
The Czech film tradition dates to the very beginnings of the medium itself, and the country’s film archive is among the world’s oldest. Yet the Czech Republic had no…
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Valuable Dvořák score comes home to New York
The manuscript of Antonín Dvořák’s famous cello concerto has gone on display at the Czech Centre in New York, launching a month-long celebration of the centenary of…
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Karel Hašler, the man whose songs are engraved in Czech cultural memory
Karel Hašler, was a famous Czech actor, director, film producer as well as film music composer. But most of all, he was the author of more than 300 songs, many of which…
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New film recreates encounter between Masaryk and Karel Čapek
Little over a week before the centenary of the establishment of Czechoslovakia, a freshly released film brings the state’s founder to the big screen. Talks with T.G…
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Ivan Král releases new CD and completes his Czech tour
The Czech-born, US based rock musician Ivan Král, one of the best-known Czech musicians abroad, celebrated his 70th birthday this year. He is perhaps the only Czech to…
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Lata Brandisová: the woman who won Europe’s toughest steeplechase
The Czech Republic has a long tradition of horse racing and the most celebrated race of all is the Great Pardubice, or Velká pardubická. This is Europe’s most challenging…
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MeetFactory’s ‘Slav Squatting’ Makes Art of Slavic Stereotypes
In one form or another, the stereotype of the “squatting Slav” has likely made its way to your social media feed over the past few years. Wearing an Adidas tracksuit…
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Iva Pekárková on hitchhiking, hermaphrodites and star-crossed love across (closed) borders
Prague-born novelist, travel writer and journalist/blogger Iva Pekárková has lived abroad for the better part of twenty-five years, having first defected to Austria in…
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Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ to open Strings of Autumn festival
The annual international music festival Strings of Autumn kicks off on Tuesday with a concert at Prague’s Vítkov National Memorial. The event, which was established in…
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Czech blues legend Luboš Andršt
Luboš Andršt is a Czech blues, jazz and art-rock guitarist. In a career spanning close to half a century he has produced over a dozen solo albums, collaborated with…
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Tiger Lillies capture two ‘Bohemian Nights’ in upcoming concert album
Self-described “Brechtian punk cabaret” trio Tiger Lillies recorded their upcoming album last week at Prague’s Archa Theatre. Between the two live shows, I spoke with the…
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Czech-American writer Mark Slouka, on being ‘Nobody’s Son’
Novelist and essayist Mark Slouka, a guest author at the ongoing Prague Writers’ Festival, was born in New York to Czech refugees who never should have married but stayed…
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