Bourgeois Cafés of Prague: Café Montmartre

Café Montmartre This is one of the 15 most famous cafes in the literary world. Founded in 1911, the café Montmartre in Prague, better known among locals by the name “cabaret Montmartre”, still welcomes guests day and night in a building called U třech divých (House at the Three Savages). Shortly after the café was...

PLACES, Prague

April 8, 2017

Congratulations to the Czech North American Chamber of Commerce & Culture

I was most pleased this month so see the continued growth at the Czech North American Chamber of Commerce & Culture Inc. (CNACC&C). Site statistics came back and during the month of March, 2017 the total number of visitors to the site were 114,413, most of them Czech and Slovak expatriates living in the United...

LIFESTYLE

Czech-Girl-Is-Best-Athlete-in-the-World-TresBohemes

April 8, 2017

Girl with Czech Roots Is the Best Athlete in the World

Best Athlete in the World A 15-year old, Katie Ledecky shocked the 2012 London Olympic Games, when she unexpectedly won the Gold Medal in the women’s 800-meter freestyle. Currently, she is a five-time Olympic Gold Medalist and nine-time World Champion. Some consider her the best athlete of the World. Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky was born on...

PEOPLE, Women

Lida-Baarova-The-Devils_Mistress-Tres_Bohemes

April 7, 2017

Lída Baarová: The Devil’s Mistress Movie

Last night we watched an interesting movie about the Czech actress, Lída Baarová. It’s a fictional work based on the real life of the actress and her affair with the Nazi Party’s Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, which lasted from September 1936 until August 1938. It’s an interpretation of her life and affair, and not a...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

April 6, 2017

Czech Farmers Cheese Bundt Cake aka Tvarohová bábovka

If you want to have a truly Bohemian dessert, then you’ll want to try our easy recipe for Czech Farmers Cheese Bundt Cake also known as Tvarohová bábovka. This delicious recipe has been improved upon by us over the years to make it crisp on the outside, soft and airy on the inside, and decadently delicious with...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

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April 2, 2017

Bourgeois Cafés of Prague: Café Myšák

Café Myšák Established in 1904, this café is world known for their cakes. In fact, they made the birthday cake of the first president of then called Czechoslovakia, Thomas G. Masaryk as well as president Beneš and Klement Gottwald. You’ll see evidence of Prague Cubist architecture in some of the details due to the design of the...

PLACES, Prague

April 1, 2017

Abandoned Soviet Town in Czech Republic

Boží Dar is a place that few people outside of Milovice even know about, and even fewer know anything about its strange and darkly sinister Soviet history. In short, it’s an abandoned Soviet town smack dab in the middle of the Czech Republic. But first, let’s consider the name, Boží Dar. This translates quite literally to...

NOSTALGIA, Time Warp

March 31, 2017

Tuskegee Airmen Fly Red Tails from the Czech Republic

The film Red Tails takes place in Italy, 1944. We’re posting about it today because it was filmed in 9 filming locations, the main “base camp” in the Czech Republic. Other locations include, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, San Rafael, California, Skywalker Ranch, San Rafael, California, Hamilton Air Force Base, Novato, California, Kerner Optical Sound Stages, San Rafael, California, and Prague Studios,...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

March 30, 2017

Memorial to the Czechoslovak Legionnaires

Josef Mařatka’s monument Praha svým vítězným synům (Prague to Its Victorious Sons) is the most famous monument constructed to honor the Czechoslovak Legionnaires. The independence of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed on October 28, 1918, by the Czechoslovak National Council in Prague and this monument was unveiled on the same day. In the center of the monument stands a...

History, NOSTALGIA

March 29, 2017

Honoring Helen Brooke Taussig

Today we are honoring Helen Brooke Taussig, a woman physician who saved thousands of children’s lives. When in May 1980, the famed 87- year physician, Helen Brooke Taussig, lost her life during a car accident, the Czech foreign press did not devote any attention to that event. Nobody could, of course, suspect that she was, on...

PEOPLE, Women

March 28, 2017

The Homolka Trilogy of Films

Ecce homo Homolka, or in English, Behold Homolka (1970) It is a beautiful Sunday, and the Homolka family is having a typical Czech picnic in a forest not far from Prague. The grandfather and grandmother have settled comfortably in the grass, their son Ludva romps about in the river with his two young twin sons,...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

March 26, 2017

Bourgeois Cafés of Prague: Café Mozart

Café Mozart What makes this café and patisserie most special is its view of the Orloj, or as most people know it, the Astronomical Clock. It also has an exhibition of Meissen porcelain throughout. Café Mozart offers a romantic environment for a coffee and a cake when visiting Old Towne Square and has the loveliest views. It’s...

PLACES, Prague

March 25, 2017

Czech Artist Josef Koci

Josef Kočí (Koci) was born on July 16, 1880 in Brno and died in 1961. He was a painter, printmaker, graphic artist and illustrator. His ancestral roots can be traced to Milivice na Volyňsku, today known as Milejovice. The little village is located in the district of Strakonice, in the Southern Bohemian Region. As of 2006,...

Art and Design, CULTURE

March 22, 2017

Czech Cigarette Box Graphics

Today we’re taking a trip down memory lane for those who used to smoke. Czech’s have always been wonderful artists, illustrators and designers and these Czech cigarette box covers show the various different styles that the tobacco companies produced. Some look like popular American brands, others have a more Soviet feel while some carry absolute...

NOSTALGIA, Retro Chic

March 21, 2017

Czech Composer Rudolf Friml and American Music

Charles Rudolf Friml was born on December 7, 1879 in Prague. The son of a baker, he already showed aptitude for music at an early age and entered the Prague Conservatory in 1895, where he studied the piano and composition with Antonín Dvořák. Passionate about music, he was expelled from the conservatory in 1901 for performing without...

ENTERTAINMENT, Music

March 17, 2017

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Prague

St. Patrick’s Day in Prague is celebrated for the entire weekend in Prague. This is because every year, more and more expats & locals are loving and supporting the traditional celebrations that make up St. Patrick’s day. Now there aren’t a lot of Irish people in Prague, and St. Patrick’s Day really has nothing to do...

CULTURE, Holidays