Word: czechs
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...goes by Ostravak Ostravski, this man who tells us he is in his 40s and lives in a socialist-era concrete apartment block in the unemployment-stricken Czech city of Ostrava, once a center of mining mocked by other Czechs as a monument to communism. He confesses to a serious drinking habit, and the urge to share embarrassing details from his more-than-ordinary life via a weblog that has become a national sensation. A coffee mug nearby, he types his entries late at night in a hilariously funny Ostrava dialect that in Czech entertainment culture would typically signal provincialism...
...residents of Trest, a sleepy Czech Republic town in the highlands halfway between Prague and Vienna, have been putting up elaborate nativity scenes in their homes for almost 200 years. Bukvaj's is just one of 15 homes that open up to the public from Dec. 25 to Feb. 2 each year. The healthy rivalry that exists among the often amateur wood-carvers is the source of constant innovation. Bukvaj, 63, a retired miller, has recreated dozens of species of mushrooms, butterflies and birds in miniature. He's also introduced transparent glass lakes that showcase his tiny wooden fish...
...Flanders has long pressed for a larger share of federal powers; education, agriculture, and commerce are among the dossiers that are now no longer in national control. A total separation like the so-called "velvet divorce" of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1992 is impossible because of Brussels: Belgium's capital is in Flanders, but 85% of its residents speak French. That hasn't stopped radical nationalist groups like the xenophobic Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) from pushing for total separation, which may have contributed to the idea being shunned by other parties...
...carved and painted by Bukvaj himself. But he wishes it was even bigger: Bukvaj feels that his 7-m-by-3-m room still doesn't provide enough space for his nativity scene. "If I only could tear this wall down," he laments. The residents of Trest, a sleepy Czech Republic town in the highlands halfway between Prague and Vienna, have been putting up elaborate nativity scenes in their homes for almost 200 years. Bukvaj's is just one of 15 homes that open up to the public from Dec. 25 to Feb. 2 each year. The healthy rivalry that...
...collected since the beginning, we would have an amazing collection of 20th century art,” Buttenwieser said. The permanent collection has 29 pieces so far. Most is of high quality, with a few truly exceptional pieces like Josiah McElheny’s “Czech Modernism Morrored and Reflected Infinitely,” and Cornelia Parker’s “Handing Fire (Suspended Arson).” The current special exhibition, “Super Vision,” presents an all-star cast of artists and is an appropriate inaugural show for a museum...