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Great station cafes

MrMerlot — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:49:51 -0800

The Gare de Lyon in Paris has Le Train Bleu. Grand Central Staion in New York has a superb Oyster Bar; Washington Union Station has this neo-classical wonder; while Prague this prime example of art nouveau; Helsinki, meanwhile, offers something suitably democratic. With cafes as good as this, railway stations become destinations in themselves.

When Prague Spring Gave Way to Winter

chunking express — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:57:07 -0800

When Prague Spring Gave Way to Winter. There is also a small slide show of images discussed in the article at the NYT, and a post over at Magnum which contains more images.

They're coming outta the goddamn walls.

Artw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:20:25 -0800

The žižkov television tower in Prague was pretty weird looking to begin with, since 2000 it's gotten much stranger...

the blob invades prague!

pyramid termite — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:35:51 -0800

The proposed new home of the National Library of the Czech Republic. The old one looks like this. The new one ... well ... is it an octopus? What the hell is this thing?

Black Light Theatre

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:47:26 -0800

The Black Light Theatre of Prague ("Černé Divadlo" or simply Black Theatre) is a Czech performance style characterised by the use of black box theatre augmented by black light trickery. Although this performance style can be found in many places around the world, nowhere is it more prolific or specialized than in Prague. Some sample images: 1 2 3 4. YouTube: 1 2 3.

Whipping and chasing and drinking and praying

tellurian — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:53:59 -0800

A strange ritual is played out in Choupic, Louisiana on Mardi Gras day. Something similar happens in Prague on Easter Monday too. [via]

The Dancing House

angrybeaver — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:17:09 -0800

Weird buildings.

What's an a-political artist to do?

gesamtkunstwerk — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:01:24 -0800

David Cerny: frilly pink tanks, babies climbing TV towers, and the president feeding slops to the director of the national gallery out of giant asses. Why, this could only be the NEA gone awry! Actually, it’s Magic Prague, the land of Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera, and the artist, like the dissidents of past generations, would rather not do political art , political art. His latest sculpture ridicules the perverse situation in which the country finds itself post Havel: a place where right-wingers like President Klaus and national gallery director Milan Knížák— a past collaborator with secret police, and worse, completely idiotic and banal performance artist — prosper and rub shoulders at the expense of those with a conscience and good taste. Like David Cerny. This isn’t the freshest post, but I’ve been waiting to join Mefi for a long time, and today is the first day I can post.

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starscream — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:32:48 -0800

Prague's latest attraction - the Museum of Communism : it's interesting how the times have changed in eastern Europe...

Prague

plep — Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:08:34 -0800

Stone inhabitants and extraordinary houses of Prague. More at the Praha experience.
If you like this, you might also like fifty doors of Paris and San Francisco.

Vaclav Havel retires as Czech president

plep — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:41:16 -0800

Vaclav Havel is retiring as president of the Czech Republic this weekend. The former dissident and playwright-cum-politician is profiled in the Guardian, the Globe & Mail and Radio Prague's site; or you can browse the great man's website.

mis — Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:11:42 -0800

I live in Prague and I've been looking for English language sites for expats living here recently. Prague TV is the best I can come up with. There are a few others, some that look promising but not fully functional yet, some absolutely terrible, and a some not so bad, but not really community sites. Do you live or work in Eastern Europe? Know any decent English language sites?