Month: December 2004

  • Paving the way to success

    Written by: Fiona Gaze Photo by: Petr Poliak Without even realizing it, people in Prague are walking all over BEST products every single day. From supermarkets to Sazka Aréna, shopping centers and historical squares, BEST has paved the ground beneath our feet. Tomáš Březina THE HISTORY OF BEST serves as an illustration of how to…

  • Inside the PR game

    Written by: Jason Hovet, Klára Smolová, Petr Vykoukal Photo by: Vojtěch Vlk PR. The acronym that’s become both noun and verb – and one of the hottest employment sectors. At the same time, PR in the minds of many equals the manipulation of information. What’s the real story behind the mythical image? A JOURNALIST of…

  • Michal Viewegh : His own boss

    Written by: Petr Kolář Photo by: Vojtěch Vlk Originally a teacher, today he’s the best-selling Czech writer. With inexorable regularity he writes a new book year after year – for fourteen years counting. When you were eighteen you decided to become a writer, because you were aware “that it’s a way to get lots of…

  • ISSUE #108

    Written by: Klára Smolová Photo: Klára Smolová, Anita Lišková Upscale exercise – 26.10.2004 When you get tired shopping at the Nový Smíchov mall, strech your muscles at the Holmes Place luxury fitness center. In the aerobic class, perhaps you will meet one of the showbiz celebrities that were admiring the set-up during the launch party.…

  • The best of Rome

    Written by: Anita Lišková & Todd Shaw Photo by: www.isifa.com Situated on the River Tiber, between the Apennine Mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea, the “Eternal City” of Rome was once the center of the mighty Roman Empire. Today, it remains the seat of the Italian government and home to numerous ministerial offices, as well as…

  • December 2004

    The present, impromptu The Vizita Theater, created by Jaroslav Dušek and Martin Zbrožek, is a unique Czech theatrical ensemble that since 1981 has been continually probing the possibilities of improvisation and spontaneous creativity. At its beginning it engaged in “narrative” theater and variations on previously set themes that were changed at every performance in accord…

  • Naveed Gill, CEO, Tiscali

    Written by: Anita Lišková Art: Nenad Vitas What did you want to be when you were a kid? Everything, A doctor, an astronaut, an actor, you name it. I was really clear. In which country would you like to live? A tax-free one, or failing that, Kashmir. Do you think it is better to say…

  • Look & Listen

    movies The Passion of the Christ Mel Gibson sparked one of the biggest controversies in motion-picture history by producing and directing this graphic and emotionally powerful depiction of the final hours of the life of Jesus, which makes extensive use of the Aramaic and Latin languages. Those who normally watch religious-themed videos casually should be…

  • December 2004

    Compiled by Anita Lišková “I know this is not a real Louis Vuitton bag. But I don’t mind. I simply got it from somebody. I like it and it suits its purpose.” – response from the Prime Minister’s wife, Šárka Grossová, who has been seen showing off her imitation Louis Vuitton bag at many social…

  • Petr Uhl: A productive pensioner

    Written by: Monika Mudranincová Photo: Martin Šára Builder, designer, teacher, engineer, boiler stoker, journalist, politician. Petr Uhl (63), Czech dissident and co-founder of Charter 77 and the Committee to Defend the Unjustly Persecuted, has been all of these. After the regime change, he was the general director of the Czechoslovak Press Agency and a parliamentary…