Thursday, 9 February 2012
Life | Czech Position
Czech launches Corrupt Tour firm offering graft landmark visits

A Czech has come up with the first corruption tour agency in the county showing people the sites and places where crooked deals are hatched and realized.
Cinema | Radio Prague
Nuclear Faith: Documentary explores Czechs' trust in nuclear energy

A fresh documentary – titled Nuclear Faith – explores the country's perception of nuclear energy.
Cinema | ČTK
Italian 1980s film on Havel screens in Prague

A documentary film on Václav Havel and other former Czechoslovak dissidents secretly shot by Italian journalist Gabriele Nissim during his visits to Prague in the 1980s, Young Anti-politicians, screened yesterday in the Czech Republic for the first time.
Cinema | Czech Position
Put on your 'Sneakers' and run for some Bulgarian films

A new generation of filmmakers is bringing Bulgarian cinema out of obscurity and onto the world stage.
Life | Radio Prague
The Mánes Exhibition Hall – an icon of functionalist architecture

The functionalist Mánes Exhibition Hall, located on the right bank of the Vltava river between the bridges Jiraskův most and Most Legií, is one of only two buildings in Prague that were expressly designed to house art – the other one being the famous Rudolfinum gallery.
Life | Prague TV
Weekend with Batman

From Saturday, 11 February, to Sunday ,12 February, it's Weekend With Batman (Víkend s Batmanem) at the Galerie Harfa shopping mall.
Life | Opus Osm
Meet Mr. Eben

This contemporary composer born in 1929 will be remembered with Czech icons such as Martinů and Dvořák, some enthusiasts believe. Moreover, the story of his personal life reads like a great film – and inspires listeners as well as musicians such as the Eben Trio.
Life | Prague Post
And the pint goes to…

Pivo, Bier & Ale, the only Czech magazine specializing in beer, celebrated its first birthday at the Strahov Brewery with a bash that was attended by most of the who's who of the modern Czech brewing scene. But it wasn't only the magazine that ended the evening with a happy face.
Life | Czech Position
Building blocks to a new mass housing

'Block City' at Prague's Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, presents the good, bad and ugly sides of mass housing (and the potentially beautiful)
Cinema | Prague TV
La Película at Kino Světozor

Kino Světozor hosts the Spanish film festival La Película ("The Movie") from Tuesday, 14 February until Sunday, 19 February.
Life | ČTK
Threatened Wood Grouse named Bird of the Year

The Czech Society for Ornithology announced the Wood Grouse as the Bird of the Year for 2012, found only in the area of Šumava.
Life | Radio Prague
Petr Novák: The man who wrote the soundtrack for the Prague Spring

Petr Novák's unmistakeable, delicate tenor voice is synonymous with Czechoslovak society of the late 1960s. This talented musician shot to fame in this country at the time of the Prague Spring, when his gentle love songs influenced by Western pop groups like The Beatles were hugely popular among young Czechs