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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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Please the Trees – Guitar band scale new heights with Infinite Dance
Infinite Dance is the fifth and most fully realised LP yet from the Prague guitar-based group Please the Trees. The new record, which was part recorded in San Francisco…
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Epic silent-film era biopic “Saint Wenceslas” screening with long lost musical score
Ahead of the Day of Czech Statehood on September 28th, special screenings of the silent film “Svatý Václav” (Saint Wenceslas), accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of…
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Albright to unveil bust during NY festival honouring Havel
Rehearsal for Truth is a weeklong theatre festival dedicated to Václav Havel that gets underway in New York on Tuesday. Alongside plays and stage readings, it will also…
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Brundibár – the child opera that premiered in the Terezín ghetto 75 years ago
The Prague composer of Jewish descent, Hans Krása, wrote Brundibár using Adolf Hoffmeister’s libreto as early as 1938. Sadly however, the opera only became famous once it…
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