Midsummer: A Play With Songs. via Bremer Shakespeare Company
Musical-comedy play Midsummer: A Play With Songs coming to Prague for three performances
The play with live music finds two vastly different people on a summer night
Stories, Traditions, etc in Czech Republic
Human skull and bone decoration in Sedlec, Czech Republic
Czech Republic’s famous Kutná Hora “bone church” to ban photography as of 2020
In an effort to restore respect and dignity to the chapel and those whose remains adorn it, the parish has issued a photography ban
Skateboarder defying the ban. via Raymond Johnston
Top of Prague’s Stalin monument area has reopened, base will remain closed
Testing shows the area used by skateboarders is relatively stable
Candles and flowers for Karel Gott in front of his home. via Raymond Johnston
Prague traffic to spike this weekend as four major events will flood the city’s streets
Services for Karel Gott and climate protests are added to previously planned cultural and sports events
Pavel Kříž and Jonas Chernick in The Prague Orgy. via Bioscope
New Czech movie The Prague Orgy shows Philip Roth’s vision of 1970s Czechoslovakia
The ‘gorgeous bleakness’ of Prague in the 1970s is captured in a new film based on a classic novella
Scaffolding at the Lennon Wall. via Raymond Johnston
Wall Is Over: Prague’s Lennon Wall covered by tarps, will re-emerge as a gallery for professional artists
After the wall is renovated, it will host professional art and be guarded by cameras
Signal Festival 2018 by Jiri Sebek
The 10 best things to do in Prague this week: October 7-October 13, 2019
The highly anticipated SIGNAL festival returns to Prague while markets, festivals, and performances light up the rest of the week
Robert Fulghum in Prague. via Petr Novák, Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 2.5
‘I was a Czech in a previous life’: author Robert Fulghum returns to Czech Republic for 25-city tour
Fulghum, who has been coming to the Czech Republic for 30 years, set a series of new novels in a Czech pub
The population of the Czech Republic last year was the highest on record since World War II
The number of people in the Czech lands grew by almost 40,000 last year to 10,649,800
Making a wish on the St. John of Nepomuk Statue, Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic
Touching Prague statues and other tourist rituals may be too ‘hands-on’ for your health, say scientists
Rubbing a statue for luck may be a tradition in many of European cities including Prague, but it isn’t the most hygienic practice according to new research