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Jakub Jan Ryba’s Christmas Mass - the most popular piece of Czech Christmas music ever written
One of the staples of Czech Christmas, along with fried carp, Christmas cookies and fairy tales, is Jakub Jan Ryba’s Christmas Mass. The mass composed by a small-town…
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Popular British carol sings the praises of St. Václav
Few people know that Good King Wenceslas, one of the best-known Christmas carols in the English-speaking world sung on the Feast of Saint Stephen, refers to a Bohemian…
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Fresh release for “chilling” classic The Cremator
Juraj Herz’s The Cremator, originally released in 1969, is often regarded as one of the greatest films ever made in Czechoslovakia. Now the dark and disturbing movie set…
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Polish-Czech pop-rock singer Ewa Farna
Ewa Farna appeared on the Czech music scene after winning a talent contest in 2004, and two years later she released her first album titled Měls mě vůbec rád (Did You Ever…
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Inderjit Badhwar: Fight false news with its own venom
The Indian journalist Inderjit Badhwar has a reputation for pursuing stories with courage and determination. His investigative writing during the more than two decades he…
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Biggest Josef Lada exhibition in years now on in Prague
The famous Czech illustrator and painter Josef Lada died on December 14, 1957 and was born on December 17, 1877. Referencing those dates, and this year, a Prague…
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US expat opens Prague poster museum
Hundreds of vintage Czechoslovak posters will go on display this week in the new Czech Poster Museum in Prague. Located in a beautiful 15th century House at the Golden…
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Hana Hegerová –the queen of Czech chanson
Hana Hegerová –known as the queen of Czech chanson - recorded over twenty albums, appeared in more than a dozen films and gave thousands of concerts in the course of a…
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Steampunk robot photographer one of many Christmas season attractions at Karel Zeman Museum
With the Christmas season underway many of Prague’s museums and galleries are offering special events and programs, among them a museum dedicated to the seminal works of…
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Czech protesters run out of patience as Prague brutalist building faces demolition
Protesters this week braved freezing temperatures to protest the pending demolition of what they regard as one of the best examples of so-called Brutalist architecture…
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New location gives London Czech Centre space for exhibitions
The Czech Centre in London has in recent years devoted a lot of its energies to bringing cutting edge Czech art and design to the UK capital. Now it’s able to do so on its…
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Czech TV to air ambitious miniseries about Empress Maria Theresa
In the New Year, Czech TV will broadcast one of its most ambitious projects to date and its biggest co-production ever: a two-part miniseries about 18th century Habsburg…
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