December 1, 2005

Twelve days from now, unless Governor Schwarzenegger commutes his death sentence, California will put Stanley Williams to death by lethal injection. Every route to clemency has been closed to the convicted murderer nicknamed ‘Tookie,’ including the California Supreme Court,...  

Forget the furry ushanka hat and traditional kerchief. Even in Siberia, Russians have a formidable appetite for fashion, and one small Czech clothing company with an Italian name and style may have hit on a huge market in a country where women stroll down dirt roads in $200 (5,000 Kc) stilettos.  

For the past two years, Muslim Dalsayev, a 33-year-old unemployed psychiatrist, has been looking for a job in medicine. With his education and experience, Dalsayev has no problem getting job interviews.  

Lenka Veresova, 24, sits inside a booth at the Christmas market on Wenceslas Square, where she sells wooden kitchen utensils for a craft company.  

Espionage agents, paranoid conspiracy theorists and others prizing their privacy have cause to thank Marian Kechlibar. Kechlibar, 27, and his friend Jiri Satanek, 31, have devised a new program that codes text, or SMS, messages so that no third party - police, secret service, even mobile phone operators -...  

Word has it that Petr Nikl fans skip his opening nights. The performer, puppeteer, children's book author and all-around adherent of conceptual endeavors often uses improvisation as a primary medium.  

The Battle of Austerlitz began 200 years ago on December 2nd after weeks of maneuvering. Its reenactment will begin this Saturday at 1 pm and run until 2:30. You can catch a bus from Brno to the battlefield, and tickets are for sale through Ticketstream. If you want to get a good idea of a battle, yet avoid...  

There are certainly enough claims for ‘equity’ these days and salmon may not strike you as having a voice in the discord that’s out there, but Congress thought they did. Admittedly, they thought that some twenty-five years ago, a full...  

Anway, yes, there are at least two museums of Kafka in Prague; there are lots of tourists among whom American are the majority, at least for my hostel dorm; there are lots of nice medieval architectures, among which the famous Charles Bridge is the most amazing one; there is a nice old town centre, with a run-down Jewish quarter; there is a river bending ...  

His job is to wage a national war on drug crime. If appearances are anything to judge by, Jiří Komorous clearly means business. Tall and powerfully built, Komorous wears a blue sweatshirt inscribed, in Latin, with the motto of the gladiators of ancient Rome: We who are about to die salute you. On the walls of his office in Prague 6 hang a World War II Russian tommy gun ...  

Prague is also about magic ? the sort that bred the Golem. Mark Podwal`s "Mystical Prague Hamsa Bookmark" in the museum shop (which joins his "Prague Hebrew Amulet Pendant" and "Mystical Prague Hamsa Pin") seeks to capture the magic of the Jewish Prague community ...