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By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart It was the decade after British Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, had told the British people that they had “never had it so good.” The bleakness of that time was giving way to the wholesale technicolor of proving him right, 10 years later. The 1960’s, swinging, libera

'May you live in interesting times." The Chinese consider it a curse, but for a memoirist, it's a godsend.

So thats European football for the foreseeable future then. Somehow it had to end with penalties. But what a six trips its been with this latest one to Prague by no means the least interesting.

Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism.

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute students and Hopkins undergrads come together to learn about Baltimore's civil rights history

November 10, 2022: Host Christa Wessel welcomes the Martinů Quartet and pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. The Martinů Quartet will share a special preview of their upcoming concerts with Friends of Chamber Music, and Llewellyn will perform selections from his upcoming shows with the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Join us Thursday at 3:00...

When aspiring violinist Ilana is sent to stay with an aunt in Prague, she meets Benjamin. But things aren't all as they seem in 'The Ghosts of Rose Hill,' a new book by RM Romero

(in honor of his 70th birthday) In a series of recent Britské listy interviews, I asked Jan Čulík to describe his life in communist Czechoslovakia (see h...

The British poet and translator Robert Chandler and his wife Elizabeth Chandler have spent decades translating many of Grossman’s works into English.

The perceived ambition of Vladimir Putin is to recreate the empire of Peter the Great. We should recall that the resplendent Tsar in 1718 had his son and heir Alexei tortured to death… for being disloyal.