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📰 WEEKEND NEWS RECAP
- This year's Prague Pride festival will kick off in the Czech capital from Monday, with events running across the city throughout the week.
- A cold front with heavy rainfall hit the Czech Republic over the weekend, but temperatures will rise later this week.
- The Czech Republic is preparing new measures to regulate Airbnb accommodation providers, set to take effect in 2025.
- Prague will remove over a hundred advertising stands from the city center in efforts to reduce visual smog and improve pedestrian spaces.
- A new initiative from Pilsner Urquell to promote sustainable farming has created flowers in the shape of a giant mug of beer in a hops field.
- American Airlines has filed a lawsuit against Brno-based Kiwi.com in a Texas court, alleging unauthorized resale of its tickets.
✔️TO DO THIS WEEK
- Monday, August 7|This year's Prague Pride festival kicks off with an opening ceremony at Pride Village on Střelecký Island, with events running through the week.
- Tuesday, August 8|American electronic and alternative music artist Two Feet performs at Žluté lázně as part of the My Kind of Summer series.
- Wednesday, August 9|Caravaggio's Shadow, a movie about the brilliant Italian artist, plays at DOX summer cinema with English subtitles.
- Thursday, August 10|The new Czech thriller #annaismissing, adapted from an Emmy Award-winning online series, premieres at Kino Světozor with English subtitles.
- Friday, August 11|Czech electronic pop band Skyline performs at Občanská plovárna as part of the 2023 Open Air Prague festival.
- Saturday, August 12|The Prague Pride festival culminates with a city-wide parade that will begin at Wenceslas Square from noon.
❓ POLL OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked if it was easy or difficult to make new friends in the Czech Republic. Just 20 percent of you said it was easy to make new friends, with 80 percent responding that it was difficult.
This week, we're wondering: as Prague plans to remove advertising stands from the city center, what do you think of street advertising in the Czech capital?
What do think of advertising stands with posters and billboards on Prague's streets?
📻 LISTEN ON YOUR MORNING COMMUTE
Get in the mood for this year's Prague Pride festival with the official 2023 playlist, provided by organizers on Spotify.
📺 WHAT TO STREAM THIS WEEK
Jakub Červenka's Talks with TGM (Hovory s TGM) premiered on the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia, and charts the real-life conversations between writer Karel Čapek and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia.
Starring Martin Huba as Masaryk and Jan Budař as Čapek, Talks with TGM is now streaming with English subtitles on HBO Max in the Czech Republic.
☕ YOUR MORNING CUP
Dorado Coffee in Old Town is the official cafe of this year's Prague Pride festival. Stop by for an espresso tonic and catch some of the accompanying program from this year's fest.
