Hurricane Ike?s untimely arrival may have thrown many lives into disarray, but those looking to get their minds off the past few weeks can find respite at a few upcoming local events.

The oldest Czech record label Supraphon has a new owner. The music publishing company, part of the Bonton entertainment group, was sold last week to Czech industry tycoon Milo? Petana. The new owner also acquired the publisher?s extensive archives containing more than 100,000 recordings made throughout the 20th century.

Tunis, October 10, 2008- The Carthage Acropolium, located on the hill of Byrsa where Dido is said to have first settled in 814 BC, will host a classical music festival which will attract some of the most interesting musical groups of the moment.

11 October 2008 It might have taken more than a year since the release of the hugely successful iPhone, but Nokia believes the imminent launch of its new touch-screen phone has come at the right place and the right time.

Jiri Menzel (Closely Watched Trains)is a long-standing filmmaker and Jan Díte, his protagonist in I Served, is a hot-dog vendor who becomes a brilliant waiter at fine hotel restaurants. How could two people be more not alike? But this is Czech cinema, where everything is irony and melancholy, the same yet different. Along the way, Menzel looks back at his own career, recounts his country's ...