Czech wines excel at international wine contest
- Southern Moravian wines are winning medals
TV makers give Central Europe high ratings
- LCD and plasma television manufacturing big in Czech Republic and its neighbors
Vivaldi’s long-lost opera returns to Prague after 278 years
- missing manuscript completed and performed at Prague Castle
Fake blog caught promoting bank
The curious case of the phantom blogger
- fake blogs also an issue in the Czech Republic
Czechs have all the right moves when it comes to ballroom dancing
Taneční - the tradition continues
Domestic films fuel comeback at cinemas
More Czech moviegoers watching Czech films - a record 32 Czech feature films planned for release in 2008
New York Rangers set to open NHL season in Prague
It’s official - the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning will be playing each other on October 4 and 5 at the Sazka Arena
Czechs develop vaccine against Lyme disease
A Moravian company worked with Palacký University in Olomouc to develop the vaccine
The Czech artist David Černý created a life-size sculpture of Sigmund Freud, which was originally installed on Jilská Street in Prague. The sculpture was hung on a metal rod over the street from the top of a building. According to an article on the České Noviny (ČTK) website, the sculpture has been shown in Europe and in the U.S. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the latest city to host the installation, the “Hanging Man” was hung on a seven story building and a number of citizens thought it was was a real person who had taken their own life. The sculpture will make it back to Prague one day, so if you see it here, you’ll know it is just Freud hanging out.
The “Hanging Man” in Prague
The world-renowned fashion designer Blanka Matragi who is Czech by origin and lives in Lebanon with her husband is currently exhibiting her latest collection in the Municipal House in Prague. The exhibition was preceded by an evening fashion show on September 22, the proceeds from which were contributed to the reconstruction of Lebanon damaged in the recent Israel/Lebanon conflict.
The exhibition runs from September 24 to October 15 and has been extremely successful.
We went to see the outdoor photo exhibition at Kampa the other day. It is called Earth from Above and it displays 120 large-format aerial photos of different locations around the world taken by French photographer Yann-Arthus Bertrand. The exhibition will run through October 31, it is open 24 hours a day and admission is free. Go see it if you can. The photos are amazing.
We took a stroll through the Kampa park on the way back. A building covered with grafitti caught my attention…
…as did a birdhouse that some nice people put up for the birdies of Prague 1.
