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Prague elite fights 'vulgar' invaders The historic city's 1. INTELLECT are 2. MOBILE to halt a wave of 3. CONSUME and cuts to the arts The 1. INTELLECT of Prague - copies of Kafka to hand, 4. FUEL by too many espressos and cheap cigarettes, black polo-necks and scarves to the ready - are on the march. After the stag nights, the 5. COME of McDonald's and Starbucks, and the shopping malls, the final straw was a banal 6. ADMINISTRATE order. Now the 'culture wars of Prague' are reaching their climax. This week the battle will 7. INTENSE with more demonstrations, petitions, scores of meetings in 8. SMOKE café s. A fight for the soul of one of Europe's most famous cities is under way, say 9. CAMPAIGN. 'It is a last-ditch fight to preserve Prague from 10. MEDIOCRE, ' said local journalist Martin Plichta. The 1. INTELLECT enemy is the city council. Last week an 11. ESTIMATE 500 theatre directors, gallery owners, artists and writers demonstrated against a municipal order in effect cutting public subsidies. A second target is a £ 250, 000 12. ADVERTISE for the city now running on international TV channels which features top Czech models drinking champagne to a soundtrack of Mozart with a backdrop of the famous castle. The 12. ADVERTISE summed up the 13. CONSERVE council's vision of the city, Plichta said. 'It is all glitz and glamour, top models, luxury cars, showbiz, celebrity, not culture.' Officials and owners of Prague's popular music hall theatres have struck back at the 1. INTELLECT, saying that cash can be better spent than paying for 'people to pull their pants down on stage'. One 14. IMPRESA said: 'We attract the tourists, we get the biggest local crowds, why should the difficult 15. ART stuff get all the help? ' No one at the town hall was available for comment. But the immediate spark for the trouble was the decision of Prague's deputy mayor in charge of cultural affairs to introduce a flat rate of subsidies for all entertainment - in effect slashing the funding of the non-profit sector in favour of the healthy, but resolutely 16. BROW, market. 'This year's subsidy will be 18 per cent of last year's, ' said Yvonna Kreuzmannova, founder of a 17. GLOBE renowned contemporary dance festival in the city. 'The situation is very serious.' At least two visits to Prague by dance companies have now been cancelled. But the fight over subsidies is about more than cash. It is about the future of a city which has changed out of all 18. RECOGNISE in a decade. Prague and the Czech Republic have seen one of the biggest tourist booms in Europe, with nearly seven million visitors a year. Known as a top destination for rowdy British stag parties, in search of cheap beer and strip shows - until its 19. SUPREME was threatened by emerging Baltic destinations such as Estonia and Latvia - Prague has recently become popular with Asian visitors. Tourists throng the narrow streets between boutiques selling cheap souvenirs. The castle itself now boasts a huge American-style bar and grill complete with Wild West decor. The 20. SWINGE cuts in arts funding come against a 21. GROUND of efforts by the right-wing federal Czech government tries to push through an ambitious reform programme including 22. REDUCE in tax and welfare spending. A new library to house the national collection of 10 million books - known as 'the blob' - is now unlikely to be built. Frank Kuznik, editor of the Prague Post, criticised 'rampant consumerism', including 23. INSTALL of an 'urban streetwear' shop on the ground floor of the Cubist 24. ARCHITECTURE masterpiece, the House of the Black Madonna, and the Starbucks that were set to sprout on street corners everywhere. 'One of Prague's few legitimate claims to world-class status is its vibrant cultural scene, which in turn attracts a steady stream of international performers, ' Kuznick said. 'That city officials are so willing to gut Prague's cultural life, while encouraging 25. MIND commercial development, suggests at the very least a warped set of priorities. They need to reconsider before it is too late.' 1.
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