August 8, 2006

My mom was supposed to arrive in Prague today from California via London Heathrow, but was turned away at the gate by BA officials, who explained that her passport validity was not good enough for Czech officials. Her passport expires in October, but apparently in an effort at tit-for-tat over the...  

My sister and I spent a whole day on a train without getting any sleep the night before. The timeing was a little off. We went to a club in downtown Munich with our friends Fea and Jon it was a fun club reminded me of a punk rock club in Seattle. Anyway they played a lot of American punk and indie rock...  

This time of summer is ideal for observing the night sky with the brightly visible Venus and Jupiter. This week also adds an opportunity to have a proper look at Mercury, Mars and soon also at the meteor shower Perseids. The best time to try to see them is, given cloudless conditions naturally, the night of the 13th August...  

Summer months are unmistakably associated with relaxation and holidays but the famous film studios Barrandov are kept rather busy. Recently two foreign films were added to the shootings of three Czech films... The two foreign directors, who chose Prague as the place to shoot their films, both prepare movies with the same subject matter...  

The poor state of the building sitting dominantly in the upper part of the Wenceslas Square was touched upon in the media frequently. The museum has now opened a new exhibition with a rather unconventional subject – the exhibition deals with the poor state of this historical building...