Kate L. Barrette

The Czech Republic is a country with a huge film-making tradition, and the New Wave of the 60s has gone down in film legend. With the end of communism, many predicted that…

Henryk Ross (1910-1991), a photographer appointed by the Jewish Council in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, took thousands of photographs documenting life in the ghetto. Kate…

Sparta Prague ice hockey club celebrated its 100th year anniversary this year, making it one of the oldest sports clubs in Europe. It was in January 1904 that the club…

With so much discussion under way in Europe over Turkey's ambitions to join the European Union, the Czech Republic has also engaged in the debate. The Czech government…

Ticket sales for the 2005 international Prague Spring music festival opened on Monday.

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra has been nominated for a grammy award for its recording of Bohuslav Martinu's Symphonies 3 and 4, with world reknown Czech conductor Jiri…

Artists, art historians and art lovers fill a cozy, attic meeting room on the top floor of the Kampa Museum of Modern Art. They are looking at slides of abstract Polish…

Those are the footsteps, voices and rattling chains of a memorable trio who visited children all across the Czech Republic on Sunday night. This was the annual celebration…

A new art exhibit opened at the Skolska Communication Space in Prague last week. The subject of the artist's work holds a special place in Czech hearts. Kate Barrette…

Czech politicians have been competing for attention in an exchange of bitter insults. But should they be trying harder to mind their language? Kate Barrette has more on…