Prague City Beat

Come join us November 1st, 3rd and 4th at 19:30 for a set of monologues written by Jane Martin. This production of ‘Talking With’ takes a look at love and loss, desire and dysfunction through the eyes of five women. Martin’s text is engaging, enlightening and thought provoking. Take a glimpse into five different lives [...]

It looks like Friday’s Róisín Murphy show at Roxy might be cancelled, due to injury. More information as we get it.
BBC News Story
Update: According to Róisín Murphy’s MySpace page, the Roxy show is one of four that have been cancelled:

Róisín is now recovering well but her European tour dates have been cancelled for at least [...]

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The votes are in, ZFK members have spoken. Here are the two films which we will be screening Sunday 28th October;
19:30 – The Host (SOUTH KOREA 2007)
21:30 – Zatoichi (JAPAN 2003)
28/10/07 @ 19:00 Prostor SKUTECNOST, Czech Inn, Francouzska 76
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A member of Underworld is apparently Under-the-weather so their Saturday show has been cancelled. Ticketpro says that you can either hold on to your tix (info on new date TBA) or return to the place you purchased them for a refund. More from Ticketpro…
UPDATE:
Apparently it’s more than just Prague affected:
From the [...]

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panoramas by Jeffrey Martin
Way past the panelaks, just beyond the big smokestack. That’s how Scottie remembers how to drive to this place. This industrial neighborhood between Malesice and Hostavice is hiding quite an enormous Vietnamese village of wholesalers. This is not the Czech Republic. It is a [...]

The next FREE screening from ZFK will be on 28/10/07 @ 19:30 Prostor SKUTE?NOST, Czech Inn, Francouzská 76
This screening will offer a choice of films making it up to you the viewer to decide what is screened. We have a selection of Asian films from which two will be selected for screening.
Here are the options;
The [...]

Hello people –
Some cool stuff happening tonight at the MOFFOM Fest.
Kurt Cobain: About A Son – Světozor velký sál at 19:30

Punk’s Not Dead – Světozor malý sál at 22:00
Synopsis: A comprehensive examination of the punk rock lifestyle across the decades, thirty years after it first emerged on the alternative cultural landscape with an [...]

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The legendary Czechtek festival.

For those who aren’t familiar with it, this was the Bohemian techno scene’s annual anarchic masterpiece of noise. Pictured here is what seems to have been the last ever Czechtek, held in 2006, on some military wasteland in western Bohemia. After photographing it I became discouraged realizing that [...]

Here’s the flyer…

Here’s the space where it’s happening this afternoon! I’ll now use my incredible literary skills to transcribe the flier because I am at a complete loss to improve on it one iota.
Dog Day Afternoon
“The Weekend Starts Here” Cocktail and Shopping party!
A great opportunity to shop for fabulous stuff while having a beer [...]

Okay, for SEVEN days only you can download the pilot episode of the new ZFK podcast! This is a test podcast and the sound quality is a bit poor as our intern nicked all the good mics to pay his drug dealer off. We’ll be back next week with new mics and better sound. This [...]

Nissan has unveiled its new Pivo car. Check out the video: Four wheel independent turning , no axles, a rotating cab, and an onboard robot that makes sure you aren’t sleeping (or passed out). At the moment there is no ice chest for cold Gambrinus, but surely will be a big seller [...]

ZFK is proud to announce the screening of the short film ‘Silence is Golden’ by Chris Shepherd. This 14′21″ short from the UK will be screened at the ‘if…’ night 20:00 14/10/07 @ Prostor SKUTECNOST, Czech Inn, Francouzska 76 — along with other short films leading onto the feature film, ‘if….’
This is really not one [...]

Alternet has a piece on Berlin as the new NYC.
“Berlin is like New York City in the 1980s,” proclaimed the New York Times. “Rents are cheap, graffiti is everywhere and the air crackles with a creativity that comes only from a city in transition.”
New York artists have been moving here in droves, [...]

Paintings are for doctors waiting rooms or for that cheap hotel room you booked at the last minute. True ‘art’ is the buildings which surround us, as in many cases, it will outlive us all and stand as a future testament to other civilisations. This is the only true art. Material, form, function. We only [...]

The next free ZFK screening will be of the feature film ‘IF’ on SUNDAY 20:00 14/10/2007 @ Prostor SKUTECNOST, Czech Inn, Francouzska 76
if…. is a 1968 cult film by British director Lindsay Anderson about an armed rebellion at a British public school. The film is associated with the 1960s counterculture movement; it was filmed at [...]

For anyone who missed it, this is what the scene looked like at the start. The very first International Non-Violence Day, also being the birthday of Ghandi, culminated in Old Town Square tonight at 7pm. 2007 thus began the annual celebration and invocation of a non-violent world. Props to the organizers [...]