From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Links roundup: What a dirty train station

March 28, 2009 News

The most interesting links of the last two weeks.

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Venus of Dolní Věstonice and of Venus of Willendorf shown in Anthropos

March 27, 2009 History

Anthropos Pavilion of the Moravian Musem will launch an exhibition called “Prehistoric Art in Central Europe” on April 8. This is an unique opportunity to see original artifacts that are almost never shown to public.

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Chinese cultural studies and Archeology of Near East launched at Masaryk university

March 25, 2009 News

The 3-year-long Bachelor of Arts (Bc.) degree programs are focused on educating students in many aspect of the fields – aesthetics, languages, geography, etc.

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Collection of Joe Hloucha exhibited by Institute of Etnography

March 25, 2009 History

Joe Hloucha was the founder of the Japanese Studies in Czechoslovakia, who travelled to the Orient for several times in the first half of the 20th century. He collected thousands of artifacts; some of these will be exposited in the Institute of Etnography (Koblizna street 1) until September 5.
Part of the presentation are black-and-white, hand-colored [...]

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Art Cinema to celebrate 90th anniversary on Friday

March 24, 2009 Cinema

Exactly 90 years ago, on March 24, 1919, a very first screening took place in the current location of Art Cinema at Cihlářská street. This makes Art Cinema one of the longest-running cinemas in the Czech republic.

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Biking in Brno: map of paths, trip ideas, safety advices

March 23, 2009 Features
Biker's map of Brno

Brno certainly isn’t Copenhagen, but you can enjoy utility cycling and bicycle touring as well.

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EU to pay CZK 200M for a cleaner Brno dam

March 18, 2009 News

The South Moravian Region will try to clean the Brno dam from dangerous anabaena bacterias.

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Marilyn Manson to perform a concert in Brno

March 17, 2009 Music

A controversial rock star Marilyn Manson will perform a concert at the Velodrom stadium in Brno on Wednesday, June 3.

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Young father clashed with anti-abortion fanatics, now has a Facebook fanclub

March 17, 2009 News

As of March 19, 6:15 PM, the group is having 86 members and the number is doubling every 3 hours.

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The real population of Brno: 520,000

March 17, 2009 News

Social scientists hired by the town’s council have estimated that there are totally 520,000 people using Brno’s infractucture every day.

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Bonjour Brno! Say hello to the French culture

March 16, 2009 Arts & events

List of concerts, exhibitions and events advertising the wonderful French culture.

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Links roundup: who cares about Tibet and who does not

March 13, 2009 News

Good weekend read.

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Photos of the Saturday Night Stabbing

March 11, 2009 News

Police has published several photos of a fight between three foreign students of medicine and an uknown man who injured them by a knife.

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Tapas Menu in Ristorante Rialto

March 10, 2009 Fine dining

You don’t have to travel to Madrid to taste some of the great spanish snacks (or antipasta) called “tapas”. Ristorante Rialto offers a special Tapas Menu from March 12th, 6 PM, until March 15th.

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5 big (and silly) problems of Brno

March 9, 2009 Features

Face it: there are several quite unique problems that damage the image of Brno.

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