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Summary for: Ahoj, Monday! Your morning cup of Prague📰 WEEKEND NEWS RECAP
- Proceedings are underway in Prague to determine if James Bay's 2014 hit Hold Back the River was derived from a song made famous by Karel Gott.
- Real wages in the Czech Republic continue to decline as inflation continues to outpace salary growth.
- More than 100 bell towers in Prague rung out in memory of war victims on Sunday evening as part of the Prague Sounds music festival.
- IKEA is set to lower the prices of many of its products on the Czech market after seeing sales skyrocket over the past two years.
- Czech tennis stars Markéta Vondroušová and Karolína Muchová advanced to the round of 16 at the US Open.
- Most Czechs are concerned about the country's proposed finance reform, according to a recent survey by Generali Investments.
✔️TO DO THIS WEEK
- Monday, September 4|Legendary Czech animator Jan Švankmajer was born on this day in 1989; celebrate with some of his iconic shorts on YouTube.
- Monday, September 4|Kino Ponrepo screens director Miloš Forman's Czech classic The Firemen's Ball with English subtitles.
- Tuesday, September 5|British nu jazz icons The Cinematic Orchestra come to Ledárny Braník as part of the Prague Open Air music festival.
- Thursday, September 7|Berlin-based indie pop band Tolstoys performs at Kasárna Karlín with Czech singer Karolina Beranova.
- Friday, September 8|Craft brews come to Prague Market during Nomad Beer Festival 2023, which runs through Saturday.
- Friday, September 8|Czech wine festival Vinohradské vinobraní returns to Jiřího z Poděbrad Square through Saturday.
❓ POLL OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked you what you thought of the Czech Republic's current minimum wage of CZK 17,300 monthly. A whopping 94 percent of you said that it should be higher!
This week, we're wondering: looking at the top 10 Czech dishes as ranked by Taste Atlas readers, what's your favorite?
What's your favorite Czech dish among the top 10 on Taste Atlas?
📻 LISTEN ON YOUR MORNING COMMUTE
As summer winds down, catch some chill beats from British nu jazz icons The Cinematic Orchestra before they perform at Ledárny Braník as part of the Prague Open Air music festival on Tuesday.
📺 WHAT TO STREAM THIS WEEK
Legendary Czech animator Jan Švankmajer turns 89 this week, and his entire catalog of feature-length films is available from the Czech arthouse streaming platform dafilms.cz. His last fiction feature, Insects, is also available on HBO Max.
Alice, Švankmajer's debut feature and one of his most acclaimed, is available to stream or download from the Internet Archive.
☕ YOUR MORNING CUP
Vinohrady coffeehouse Miners, which we featured among Prague's top cafes to work from remotely, has recently opened a new branch at Karlín's Fragment building, held up by David Černý's towering Lilith.
