Posted by Cat Contiguglia on December 11, 2010
Christmas is the season of awkwardness, and the apex of that has got to be the company Christmas party. Take all of a person’s colleagues, higher and lower, and put them in a room with alcohol- it’s like a minefield for uncouth jokes and uncomfortable silences that contrary to popular belief, don’t get better with [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on November 18, 2010
It’s getting chilly out and I’ll have to admit navigating Prague’s cobblestone streets in the rain is not at the top of my fun list. So last week on a particularly unpleasant night, a friend and I stayed in and decided to try our hand at making our own mulled wine – it was super [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on November 11, 2010
After Hemingway Bar won for best cocktail bar in the Czech Bar Awards, I decided to go check it and see what it was all about. It’s a rather small bar, on Karolíny Světlé 26, and there’s really nothing extremely loud about the place’s appearance from the outside. At first glance when you go in, [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on October 17, 2010
Halloween is just around the corner! I’m going to try and get a nice fat round up of everything that’s happening on the blog. To make it as inclusive as possible, send me all your favorite Prague Halloween parties and events, from tame pumpkin carving contests to epic ragers… let’s try and get it all [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on October 9, 2010
Get ready to sample some of the best liquor legendary for causing the worst decisions! Prague is having its first ever Tequila Festival Oct. 22nd! For just 200 Kč, attendees can sample some of the best quality tequila – the festival is to educate the beer and Becharovka drinkers of Prague about the Mexican liquor. [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on October 7, 2010
I honestly can’t think of many other better ways to spend a Friday night than free beer and wine at one of the best expat bars in Prague… so lucky for you, it’s Bukowski’s third birthday celebration this Friday! The Žižkov bar, which is named after the American writer Charles Bukowski, sort of toned down [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on October 2, 2010
Themed bar nights are totally hit or miss – and it’s pretty rare to find one where people are actually into it, so when I went to the 80s night at Casa Andina on Dušní I was blown away by how successful it was in a) getting a bunch of people in really embarrassing outfits and [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on September 25, 2010
This Thursday, September 30th, Club Mecca will be hosting a fundraising event in honor of Prague DJ Rhys “Maximal” Davies, who passed away on the 22nd at the age of 27. The money raised at the event will be given to Davies’ parents to pay for assistance and shipping of Davies’ body back to the [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on September 18, 2010
Have you ever told a joke to some friends that was hilarious at work three hours earlier and the result is the longest, most awkward ten seconds of silence? If you have (most everyone in the world has) then you’ve experienced that humor is really nothing less than a fine art, standing the test of [...]
Posted by Cat Contiguglia on September 16, 2010
Club Mecca is celebrating it’s 12th birthday tomorrow night with a huge celebration bash featuring live DJ music and dancing. The club, which has three floors, five bars and four different rooms including a VIP area, will feature beats by DJ Funkerman, the Dutch founder of Flamingo Recordings. Funkerman told the Post that there will [...]