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Last year we already introduced Meetups to you – meeting groups that are created by people of similar interests. Meetups are also important for our culture since they allow us, countrymen, to meet together to share our experiences from living abroad, to speak our language, and feel like at home. In order to bring you the current events, we try to stay connected with Czech and Slovak Meetups in the USA and Canada. Announcing events, however, would not be enough to describe how great it is that these groups exist. That is why we are introducing to you the Czech Language Meetup in Canada. Our friends at CanadianCzech.com allowed us not only to write about the group but also bring you the atmosphere through the audio interview available here but also at the site named above.

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Visiting the Czech Republic can bring many experiences. Some of them may be good ones, while others can bring negative impressions or embarrassment. Our new series on Czech etiquette should help you to overcome the culture shocks that visitors to the Czech Republic may experience. You may also follow these rules when visiting Slovakia, since the Czech and Slovak cultures are very similar to each other.

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Anna Pospichalova is not an ordinary woman. As you may have recently heard on news, she just received the award of Righteous Among Nations. Why did she receive this prestigious prize that so far only 22,000 people from around the world have received? She just wanted to save the lives of three Jews during World War Two, while risking imprisonment, torture, or even death. This Slovak-born lady, now living in the Czech Republic, already received one award for her good deed about five years ago, thus, she was very surprised when she found out she had won this award as well.

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Originally we thought we would introduce two cultural events to you; one from the Czech Republic and one from the USA. The event in the Czech Republic, called Angel 2008, was a music award event. The other one would have been an international festival in Los Angeles, California, that was opened by a Czech movie selected out of 124 films from countries around the world. They both caught our attention for their impact on the Czech entertainment world but also because they shared one common word. Los Angeles is a Spanish word that means “The Angels” in English. How coincidental? Unfortunately, Czech Television made a mistake in their video since the festival is actually happening in Tiburon, located in the San Francisco Bay, but it is unexpectedly related to angels as well. How? Find out at the end of the article.

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Spring is finally here and with it comes the necessary cleaning that most of us don’t look forward to. Many cities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia already started the cleaning despite mild snowing in certain regions. Like ever year, the streets are swept, windows are cleaned, buildings are painted or renovated, parks are cleaned and all damages, after a long and cold winter season, are repaired. People at home are preparing for Easter and also clean their homes or apartments to bring more sun and joy to their dwellings. In addition, new initiatives appeared to keep the environment clean. For example, Prague has a great solution to overall cleanness of the city that it achieves by utilizing the Internet and the involvement of local citizens.

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Czech documentaries are gaining popularity more than ever before. This year was the first time Czech documentaries were added to the Czech Lion competition and were introduced in two categories. The first category was used to award the three best Czech documentaries from the period of 1993 through 2007. The second category was the best documentary of 2008. The criteria for selection were very simple. They had to be at least 50 minutes in length and had to be introduced to the public in public theatres. If you live in the Czech Republic, you have a chance to watch some of the Czech Lion Award documentaries for free. Everybody should, however, visit the portal we introduce below since it offers a great selection of documentaries for a negligible fee.

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Our sweepstakes has ended and we have selected two winners of the DVD I Served the King of England. The drawing was quite difficult. As many of you already know, we randomly selected two winners right at the end of the sweepstakes (March 11^th). Unfortunately, one of the winners of this contest was disqualified for living outside the USA, and we did not hear from the other one.
Yesterday, we decided to go for a more fun selection process that involved all the CF subscribers. The two fastest responders were awarded with the prize and here are their names:

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We know that it is probably difficult to stay optimistic during the tough economic slowdown, but we believe our positive thinking can help us to cope with the situation, learn from it, or even turn it around. We are not actually trying to talk about the economy today, but about our new partner Pozitivni Noviny (Positive News) that has lots to do with thinking positive. Why? Because it brings exceptional articles, information, stories, interviews, essays, ideas, recommendations, thoughts, and more. You can read them any time, no matter what day or year it is now, because they will always bring something warm and enticing to give you strength to live, learn, and thrive.

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The Czech Republic is very advanced when it comes to mobile technology, and cell phones are more popular than ever. The extensive usage of mobile phones is not surprising at all since you can do much more with them than just make a phone call. Major cities are using mobile technology to inform local residents and tourists about upcoming events and as a single user you can send SMS messages to purchase transportation tickets, pay for parking, or cultural events. These new services will make it easier for you when travelling without cash or a tour guide.

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Have you ever tried to translate the English word “off” to Czech? If you have, you probably found many great meanings such as “pryc” or “zrusen” etc. Why do we believe they are great meanings? Because they can represent great equivalents to the mission of Oncology Film Festival (OFF) 2008 that just recently ended and revealed its winner. The festival was organized to collect professional and amateur videos by cancer survivors to bring hope to others that are still struggling with the disease. The winning film will be screened this and next month in cinemas in Prague.

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You would never think that politicians and scandals would be found in the same sentence as charity but actually that very thing occurred in the following event. It all started three years ago when Miroslav Macek slapped David Rath’s head from behind at a Dentists’ Chamber conference. The fact that the whole act was caught on cameras makes it quite embarrassing; especially, since it happened just two weeks before parliamentary elections. The whole incident was resolved in court and a penalty for the act raised a large amount of money that actually aided several children from a local foster home.

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Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic is well known for his disapproval of the Czech Republic joining the European Union. He is also known for his disbelief of global warming. Recently, he visited the United States to speak about global warming and climate change. He was supposed to meet with Al Gore, the chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, but while Gore spoke at The Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics Conference in Santa Barbara, California, Klaus was on the plane to the USA. Was it on purpose to avoid them clashing with each other?

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