Prague City Beat

According to the UK tabloid The Sun, British singer Paul Weller (The Jam, The Style Council) had rather too good a time on a recent visit to U malé velryby:
MODFATHER PAUL WELLER was threatened with jail by cops after getting blind drunk and collapsing in the street.
THE JAM legend, 50, was told he could be [...]

Projekt Zá?e, the Czech UFO website I posted about last year has recorded two sightings in Prague in the past month:
On Friday, December 12th in Prague 6-Vokovice, there’s a report of “three red-orange [objects] like burning lights in a triangle formation, flying slow and straight”.
And on Friday, December 19th in the New Town, there’s a [...]

“Over 100 people took part in the 62nd year of the Alfred Nikodém’s Memorial in the Vltava river close to Prague’s National Theatre on 26 December. The oldest participant was a 95-year-old man from Olomouc.”

American columnist Kevin Roeten offers some alarming predictions for the years ahead:
Three very likely scenarios that the upcoming administration will face: #1) Iran goes nuclear on an Israeli location, #2) Russia nukes the Czech Republic and/or Poland, and #3) Islamofascists takes control of another country’s nuke and sends it America’s way.
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“When you’ve lived in the same city for a long time, it’s easy to forget to look up once in a while – especially when you’re being pushed along in a crowd of crazed Christmas shoppers.
In Prague it’s not just spires and arches you’ll be missing. The city is replete with remarkably intricate picture signs [...]

” Kevin Stewart: “After a little more encouragement and persuasion, Mr Werich agreed to come along to our studio, but on one condition – that we sing ‘Happy Birthday’ for him. And because a man must keep his word, we were forced to sing. We hope you’ll forgive us if our singing is slightly out [...]

“Switch all lights and electrical appliances off on Sunday, 21 December, the anonymous authors of a protest against power producer ?EZ ask Czechs.They are sending out mass emails, in which ?EZ director Martin Roman smiles under a notice saying: “We are looking forward to your money in 2009″. The entire email comes in the form [...]

Czechs may no longer need visas to visit the USA but a Czech passport still isn’t recognized everywhere in America, as Igo, California-based journalist Dori Greenberg relates:
Today’s is not a happy tourist story about Marie Domke, my beautiful, sophisticated, brilliant Czech daughter-in-law here for the holidays with her husband, my son Joe.
On Sunday night Joe [...]

Mr. X
yo facebook is account-maintenancing my account
what are the details on the pillowfight?
Mrs. X
Oh – well, you should be there at 6.55, have your pillow hidden, when they give the signal pull out the pillow and FIGHT!
Mr. X
yeeuuh
Mrs. X
the fight will last 1 minute…. then hide your pillow (or what remains of it) and go [...]

Art World invites you to Varl?©n’s puppet seminar tonight, Wednesday December 17th at 8pm.
This seminar introduces the Cubist Frace of Sigismund de Chals,
“Cube & Coffee.”
The author of Varl?©n and Red Amadeus introduce with their
team the puppet play, from the history of plutocracy and Modern Art.
Interview with the author is attached here
and featured in [...]

Parking in Prague will be free for the holiday period. Info… (in CZ)

M1 Lounge just sent us a video for their Gold listing on Prague TV..

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“It’s important to have your own style. One day you just stop caring about what other people think and you go for you. If you don’t, no one will notice you” French Peanut said.

“After last year’s Christmas, they even announced a Zarach price awarded for the biggest incomprehension of Czech Christmas traditions. The winner was the Prague shopping centre Chodov. During the last year’s Christmas hustle, visitors to the centre could take a picture of their children sitting on the lap of Santa Claus in the tradition of [...]

With a complete disregard for science, I’d always imagined that winter days in Prague were far shorter than those back in the UK but a quick look at sunset times on Timeanddate.com proves how wrong I was.
While the sun sets in Prague today at exactly 4:00pm, the sun goes down on Londoners nine minutes earlier, [...]

Prague 4’s Cinema City Novodvorská multiplex has closed down, reportedly as a result of “a declining market and customer dissatisfaction”.
It’s the first of the big Western-style movie theatres to go out of business, having only opened in March 2006.
iDnes.cz: V Praze skon?ilo první multikino

Two cinemas are showing undubbed versions of the Disney sequel between Thursday, December 11th and Wednesday, December 17th:
Palace Cinemas Slovanský d?m
Na p?íkop? 22, Prague 1
12:00
17:05
Village Cinemas And?l
Radlická 3179/1E, Prague 5
10:00 — not Friday or Wednesday
12:30
15:00
Prague TV Cinema Listings

“Commuters rush past it on the way to catch the train or dash in to buy a paper before boarding the tram. Chances are the little newspaper stand that squats on the edge of the park Vrchilického sady, right by the Hlavní nádraží tram stop rarely gets a second glance.”
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This is weird. And watching the video just makes it even weirder.
A Czech performance artist who brushes past people in the street is one of the attractions at an exhibition in Florida. The BBC’s Andy Gallacher watched Jiri Kovanda in action at Art Basel Miami Beach.

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“The Czech Republic has been listed on an American roster of countries where sales of pirated goods and fake brands are widespread. The Recording Industry Association of America has called the Czech-German and Czech-Austrian border regions amongst the worst in the world when it comes to the sale of pirated goods. The head of the [...]