Prague City Beat

iDnes.cz has live video coverage of Squat Milada in Prague 8-Libe?, where police are attempting to retake the building on behalf of its owner.
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The @squatMilada Twitter account is also covering events in Czech.

Serious flooding in northern Moravia and southern Bohemia has claimed at least 13 lives and caused billions of crowns of damage.
If you’re based in the Czech Republic and would like to make a donation to one of the charities helping those people and communities affected — either by bank transfer or by Donors Message Service [...]

The boffins at Google have created a three-dimensional model of Prague’s historical center within the Google Earth application, supposedly as a gift for the city.
To see it, install Google Earth, go to Prague, and in the “Layers” menu click “3D Buildings.”
Happy trails!
Source: Praha slaví a Google má pro ni dárek…

News of Michael Jackson’s death reminded me of an exchange between Václav Havel and Lou Reed during their onstage conversation at Švandovo divadlo in 2005:
They only disagree once all evening, over Michael Jackson.
Havel had invited Jackson to Prague Castle in 1996, because he was interested in the pop star as a “civilization phenomenon,” but found [...]

Things are looking increasingly bleak for low-cost airline SkyEurope, which filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.
Later that day, a SkyEurope plane was impounded at Paris-Orly airport in France, allegedly because of outstanding airport fees, and Germany’s DPA news agency is now reporting that two more SkyEurope planes have been seized in Bucharest, Romania, for similar [...]

Two Prague cinemas are showing undubbed English-language versions of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Here are the showtimes from Wednesday, June 24 until Wednesday, July 1:
Palace Cinemas Slovanský d?m
Na p?íkop? 22, Prague 1
Wednesday, June 24 to Wednesday, July 1
13:30
16:30
19:30
22:30
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Village Cinemas And?l
Radlická 3179/1E, Prague 5
Wednesday, June 24
17:45
20:45
Thursday, June 25 to Wednesday, July 1
11:00 — Saturday the 27th, [...]

The Czechs chose an interesting (wobbly) way to handover the EU presidency:
PRAGUE (AFP) — Prague’s historic Charles Bridge witnessed a wobbly symbolic handover of the Czech European Union presidency to Sweden on Saturday as officials passed a keg of Czech beer from one boat to another.
“We were looking for a symbol of the Czech presidency [...]

Low-cost airline SkyEurope has filed for bankruptcy protection in order to carry out restructuring.
According to reports, flights and ticket sales will not be affected, however.
Sources
Slovakia’s SkyEurope gets creditor protection
Nízkonákladové aerolinky SkyEurope jsou v ochran? p?ed bankrotem

A micro documentary following artist Aidan Hughes as he prepares his exhibition POPAGANDA in Prague. Check out Aidan’s blog for more info bruteprop.blogspot.comFor those of you who want to see the show, it’s open until the 13th July at Mad Bar, Plaska 5, Mala Strana, Prague 5.

?eský Krumlov celebrates 700 years this weekend (June 19-21) at the Five-petalled Rose festival.
The festival’s content is based on a long-term schedule, when once in ten years, always in a year ending in number nine, all the periods in ?eský Krumlov’s history are thematically related to the town. “This wider reach is also [...]

The UK has launched an interesting new advertising campaign:

Nice People Take Drugs – it’s not a controversial statement. We all know people who have. The last three US presidents have admitted to it. Much has been suggested about the likely next UK prime minister. Nowadays if a politician admitted to it, the tabloids would struggle [...]

Former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek is denying reports that he appears naked in photos taken at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Sardinia villa.
The photos, published in Spain’s El Pais newspaper, show a nude middle-aged man and two topless young women, all with pixelated faces, supposedly at a party thrown by Berlusconi for a Czech [...]