In his latest recording to play in Prague tonight, Courtney Pine spreads the gospel of the legendary New Orleans clarinetist Sidney Bechet.

Emerging from Vancouver's sizable Scottish-Canadian community, the band offers a twisted punk version of Caledonian culture. The Real McKenzies play acoustic shows at Rock Café today and tomorrow.

It was 1999, and Nancy Bishop woke up with a dream heavy on her mind. Her dream had been a psychoanalyst's delight: she was walking uphill, carrying a bus on her head--she was clearly exhausted.

Well-known in his own right but most recently in the spotlight for his collaboration with David Černý on Entropa, Krištof Kintera has an electrifying new show of his own at Galerie Jiří Švestka, featuring works from the past couple years.

If the Communists had had their way, much of Žižkov would today be covered in grey paneláky, prefabricated blocks of flats that blight the outskirts of many Czech cities and towns.