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Classical music lovers have it easy in the city of 100 spires. But fans of alternative culture have far fewer options, despite Prague's freewheeling, bohemian reputation. Luckily, they can always find refuge in the Zizkov quarter's Palac Akropolis?an edgy, independent club featuring international music, multimedia projects and experimental theater...
Classical music lovers have it easy in the city of 100 spires. But fans of alternative culture have far fewer options, despite Prague's freewheeling, bohemian reputation. Luckily, they can always find refuge in the Zizkov quarter's Palac Akropolis - an edgy, independent club featuring international music, multimedia projects and experimental theater. Recent shows have included a Romanian Gypsy brass band, the British punk band Toy Dolls and a Peking opera performance. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric...
...this spring is Lisa Palac's The Edge of the Bed, in which the author suggests that pornography can be liberating because X-rated movies were sexually freeing for her. "Once I figured out how to look at an erotic image and use my sexual imagination to turn desire into a self-generated orgasm, my life was irrevocably and positively changed," writes Palac. The subtext of her book is that sexual self-revelation is groundbreaking in itself. But of course it isn't. It's at least as old as the '70s. That decade gave us, among other things...
...Beyond Palac, there are other young postfeminists who have launched careers by merely plucking from and personalizing Paglia's headline-making ideas. The latest addition to the women's-studies sections of bookstores, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, features on its cover a topless picture of author Elizabeth Wurtzel. Beyond it lies a seemingly unedited rant in which Wurtzel, billed on her book jacket as a Pagliaite, demands for herself and womankind the right to be rapacious, have fits and own more than one Gucci bag. "I intend to scream, shout, throw tantrums in Bloomingdale's if I feel...
After throwing upon the screen some beautiful interior views of the Ducal Palac, the lecturer went on to the description of the Grand Canal, lined with noble palaces on either side, which have now been desecrated by being converted into mere ware-houses. A few more views of a general nature closed the exhibition. It is to be regretted that some of the views were so in distinctinctly taken, as the injudicious "restorations" which are now going on will destroy many of the beauties which should be preserved by this means...
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