Compiled by Marie Šrámková Comedy filled with sly foxes The author of the play Volpone, Ben Jonson, is considered the second greatest author of the English Renaissance, just behind Shakespeare. His comedy, which is directed by Daniel Hrbek at the Švandovo divadlo, takes place at a time when being a good attorney was beginning to…

Written by: Anita Lišková Art: Nenad Vitas What did you want to be when you were a kid? I always wanted to be a traveler, explorer, adventurer. And also a man, of course. I was convinced then that women just were not “allowed” to do things like that. Who are your favorite painters? The very…

Written by: John Letzing & Klára Smolová Photo: René Jakl, Tomáš Kubeš As major local firms centralize operations into large office complexes, fresh opportunities are being created for suppliers prepared to provide everything from copiers to garbage cans. Tony Shee TONY SHEE has a question: “How do you make office furniture interesting?” Shee, managing director…

Written by: John Letzing Portable wide screen Apple recently introduced an impressive addition to its line of Powerbook notebooks – a G4 featuring a mammoth, 43 cm-wide display. Room abounds for menus, toolbars, etc., creating the possibility that even heavy-duty design could go portable. The unit also comes with iDVD software, a back lit keyboard,…

Written by: Kateřina Zapletňuková Photo by: Jan Vágner In 1993 when Pizza Go Home opened its first outlet in Prague 7, the firm had to win over its first customers. From one branch, the company grew into eight outlets covering the entire city and turning out CZK 50 million in revenue in 2002. WHEN CZECH…

Written by: John Letzing Photo: Petr Poliak Investment from Asia has been arriving in record numbers lately, capped by the TPCA auto plant in Kolín. The deluge prompts two questions: why Asia, and why now? THE JAPANESE needed no post-1989 introduction to Czech manufacturing capabilities; they’d first made an acquaintance staring down the barrels of…

Written by: movies The Shipping News Director Lasse Hallström has turned the familiar novel by E. Annie Proulx into a film that should belong to a genre known as “Salt of the Earth Redemption”. Good, but not exceptional performances by Kevin Spacey and the other leads make the characters respectable, although not very likable or…

Compiled by Anita Lišková “If you can guarantee that the upcoming visit in Slovakia is Havel’s last one, then why not welcome him?” – Vladimír Mečiar speaking about Václav Havel’s final presidential trip to Slovakia. “I have embedded in my memory a congratulation from one very nice lady. She told me how cheering it is…

Written by: Petr Vykoukal (www.penize.cz) Photo by: Vladimír Weiss A sharp drop in income is something that those with high earnings must deal with when they retire. If they don’t want to live on “bread and water”, they must begin arranging for old age decades in advance. During the final twenty years of the last…