Culture
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Oscar for Irglová and Hansard shows the Academy can occasionally get it right
When they give a bagful of Academy Awards to some load of epic rubbish, as they seem to so often do, it merely confirms my belief that the Academy is made up of…
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Ondřej Kohout: exiled artist who made Vienna his home
In this edition of Czechs Today, we talk to Ondřej Kohout, a painter and stage designer who left Czechoslovakia with his family in the early 1980s after signing the…
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Home town of Markéta Irglová celebrates her Oscar success
The young Czech musician Markéta Irglová charmed many around the world with her winning appearance at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony, where she and her Irish partner Glen…
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Oscar dream comes true for young Czech musician Markéta Irglová
While the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men has made world headlines for sweeping the boards at the Academy Awards, here in the Czech Republic THE story has been the…
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Support Lesbiens
The Czech band Support Lesbiens first got its start in the early 1990s, introducing a hard, punkish sound often drawing comparisons with the then popular Seattle scene and…
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Eliahu Inbal - the new chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic
The Czech Philharmonic has a new conductor. As of 2009, the orchestra which was first conducted by Antonín Dvořák over a century ago will hand the baton over to the…
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Winning plays of the Prague Post Playwriting Contest premiere on Saturday
If you want to see original English drama performed on a Czech stage, come to Prague’s Divadlo Minor this weekend. Saturday will see the premiere of this year’s three best…
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Shockproof Film Festival: the very best of B-movies
A Bucket of Blood, The Bride of the Monster and Blood Feast: what do these rather unusual titles have in common? Apparently they’re some of the worst movies ever made, and…
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Jiří Stránský: a doctor of prison sciences
As a writer Jiří Stránský has never had to look far beyond his own extraordinary life story for inspiration. He was born in 1931 into an influential Prague political…
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Cheap DVDs distributed by newspapers flooding Czech market
In 2007 almost all of the Czech Republic’s national newspapers began offering their readers cheap DVDs. Such movies are not free supplements as you might get in the UK for…
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Josef Lada – landscape painter and Švejk illustrator
As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy tales and children’s…
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Citizen Havel premieres at Berlin Film Festival
Citizen Havel – a fly-on-the-wall documentary following former head of state Václav Havel through two presidential terms - has been a big success amongst Czech cinemagoers…
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