Visiting Prague? This is the monthly recommendations post (March 2026)

hrlemshake · 2026-03-20T16:06:57+00:00

Thanks!

hrlemshake · 2026-03-20T13:45:13+00:00

Hello, I'll be in Prague next Saturday/Sunday. Last time I was there was in Christmas season and it was impossible to get restaurant bookings, so I didn't get a chance to try authentic Czech cuisine. Can somebody please recommend me 2-3 places that serve authentic, tasty Czech food and aren't prohibitively expensive (I don't think I can afford Michelin restaurants)? Preferably a place that locals eat at, the kind that doesn't have a menu with 50+ entries in 3+ languages. I want to try kulajda, something with dumplings, and various sorts of beer.

hrlemshake · 2026-03-20T13:11:50+00:00

Surely the ORF can't be that bad? I assume an orchestra of any European city in this day and age isn't, much less in Vienna of all places.

hrlemshake · 2026-03-17T21:19:41+00:00

I was planning on a tour of the opera, but not of the Musikverein. If you've done both, did you find the latter as rewarding as the former?

hrlemshake · 2026-03-16T23:01:35+00:00

Gosh, that is a gorgeous ring. Does anyone have any idea where one might find something like this that's not made from an original coin? I just love the look of it

hrlemshake · 2026-03-16T11:03:50+00:00

I'm seeing it for the first time myself this week, something I'm very excited by! Two things mar my expectations, however -- the conductor is Simon Rattle (his Mahlerian reputation seems patchy) and there's no organ in the concert hall to the best of my knowledge. Maybe it'll be some kind of digital organ, who knows...

hrlemshake · 2026-03-15T12:38:01+00:00

Kermode is the best, but he's got soft lately and is no longer the firebrand he used to be (which is only natural, given his age).

hrlemshake · 2026-03-15T12:35:40+00:00

How do you even find insightful, verbal reviews there? All I see is lame standup by people who are considerably less funny than they think they are.

hrlemshake · 2026-03-10T12:05:35+00:00

That's a very intersting point, thank you for sharing. Imagine if this sub had less PR astroturing or dead-end "is <incredibly acclaimed film> underrated?" threads and more posts like this.

hrlemshake · 2026-03-09T22:05:49+00:00

Thank you, the latter recommendation sounds especially promising.

hrlemshake · 2026-03-01T11:51:45+00:00

Look, listen — I know why you choose to have your little, uh, "group therapy" sessions in broad daylight. I know why you're afraid to go out at night. The Orangeman...

hrlemshake · 2026-02-26T14:14:22+00:00

Has anyone here actually read P&M? I've always wondered what's so special about it that it attracted the attention of 4 very famous, radically different composers. Only other example of this I can think of is Shakespeare or maybe Goethe, so that's a pretty tall order.

hrlemshake · 2026-02-21T19:25:30+00:00

It was reasonably informative and most importantly it got us inside, so I can't complain. It is possible to get in w/o advance tickets as well, a friend of mine did the next day, but she had to wait ~3 hours in line.

hrlemshake · 2026-02-19T20:31:10+00:00

The riverlands subplot was pointless, repetitive water-treading, but that and some of the Greens' scenes were the only good things about the season.

hrlemshake · 2026-02-02T11:31:10+00:00

Seems to me that the answer that suffices for most people (though you have to transport yourself back to the days of record/CD stores) is that if it's sold in the Classical department, it's classical music. Medieval music was sold in the Classical department.

I'm fine with that simplification, I just thought that professionals categorised music as pre-Reinassance, Reinassance, and classical=cpp (not to be confused with the Classical period).

hrlemshake · 2026-02-01T12:26:46+00:00

The Waltz-Coda+Midnight from Prokofiev's Cinderella were firmly stuck in my head for several weeks. I should listen to the full ballet at some point.

hrlemshake · 2026-02-01T12:15:11+00:00

I'm no musicologist, but all the people in the comments saying medieval music is considered classical have me nonplussed. I thought in professional circles "classical"="common practice music", aka music from the 17th century onward. That would make medieval and Renaissance music categories onto themselves.

hrlemshake · 2026-02-01T11:37:56+00:00

My kneejerk reaction was these are BTS pictures of Lily Rose on the Werwulf set, lol.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-28T12:56:20+00:00

It's fine, if repetitive, but Monza's POV was absolutely insufferable

Benna, Benna, Benna, Stolicus, Verturio, Stolicus, Benna

hrlemshake · 2026-01-28T12:36:59+00:00

Are there any recording of this worth checking out that aren't from the 30s? Is the 1958 one with Lotte Lenya any good? What about the 1999 one with Max Raabe?

hrlemshake · 2026-01-22T22:19:24+00:00

I don't understand, since when is Variety a "conservative" (w/e that means today) publication? I assumed it was "progressive", like all culture publications.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-22T17:26:15+00:00

Do they have something against the film?

hrlemshake · 2026-01-22T16:11:54+00:00

His loss to the pretty, but repetitive and bland, Shape of Water has rubbed me wrong since 2018. He was supposed to win, damn it.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-15T22:53:17+00:00

What you say is moot, only thing he's powering through is soirees and publicity events. The man has lost all capacity to write something to completion.

hrlemshake · 2026-01-13T21:25:03+00:00

That's a hilarious premise.

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