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...have included a Romanian Gypsy brass band, the British punk band Toy Dolls and a Peking opera performance. When the shows end, DJs spin in Akropolis' basement bars. There is also a restaurant, a caf? and a picture gallery. But there is another reason to visit the club: Frantisek Skala, an eccentric Czech salvage artist, designed the club's labyrinthine interiors. A perfectionist who rarely exhibits, Skala spent five years outfitting Akropolis with his eclectic vision that examines the mystery in ordinary objects and spaces...
...restaurant, with its aquamarine walls and two cases displaying Skala's fantastic mechanical constructions, has the feel of tropical-sea shallows. The downstairs performance hall's orange stucco walls sprout giant polypores and bear soft bas-reliefs of such things as a nymph and an ear, evoking a dream sequence. And if you look hard enough inside one of the bars, you may even spot a palm-sized wall opening that reveals a secret crypt. Now that's underground. tel: (420-2) 96 330 911; www.palacakropolis.cz
...with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder When the shows end, DJs spin in Akropolis' basement bars. There is also a restaurant, a café and a picture gallery. But there is another reason to visit the club: Frantisek Skala, an eccentric Czech salvage artist, designed the club's labyrinthine interiors. A perfectionist who rarely exhibits, Skala spent five years outfitting Akropolis with his eclectic vision that examines the mystery in ordinary objects and spaces. The restaurant, with its aquamarine walls and two cases displaying Skala's fantastic mechanical constructions...
...this was only the beginning of the outrage. The plaintiff companies asked the federal judge to apply U.S. law to the two programmers, Matthew Skala of Canada and Eddie Jansson of Sweden, even though the court plainly had no jurisdiction over the defendants or their activities. They also sought orders from the U.S. judge requiring Internet service providers in Canada and Sweden to suppress Skala and Jansson's websites, even though those service providers did no business in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the U.S. and were also not subject to the jurisdiction of an American federal court...
...bullying worked. The foreign service providers "cooperated," shutting down the programmers' websites. Skala and Jansson surrendered within days, giving Microsystems and Mattel all rights in their program, thus allowing it to be suppressed. Mattel is now seeking to have the judge in Massachusetts prohibit--in contempt of the injunction Skala and Jansson agreed to--any website in the world from distributing the information Skala and Jansson developed concerning Cyberpatrol...