Puff Daddy
He’s been arrested on weapons charges, (allegedly) punched Boyzone upstart Shane Lynch and lost friends through gangsta killings. Is there anything tame about Seán ‘Puffy’ Combs? Yes, his music. Puff Daddy is the Val Doonican of hip hop, serving the antithesis of Public Enemy’s urgent and angry beats. This is the man, after all, who made Sting’s ‘Every Breath You Take’ sound more mawkish than the original. There is, however, one good reason to attend this concert: the remote possibility that his drop-dead-gorgeous girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, might be in the audience.
International Sports Leagues
Amateur football, basketball, volleyball and floorball leagues – this last a kind of iceless hockey – are forming all over Prague, welcoming anyone with hoop dreams or just a pair of trainers. Throughout the grey winter, these teams provide scores of Prague locals and foreigners with their only source of exercise, so now that spring has arrived in earnest, the matches should really take off. Sign up singly or in teams with your mates – all are invited.
Miu Miu
Florence’s designer fashion shopping scene is definately looking up. The latest addition to the city’s glossy ‘alta moda’ stores is Miu Miu, Prada’s young line. Just off Piazza della Repubblica and next door to the new Savoy Hotel, the shop is displaying an enticing collection of autumn ready-to-wear for men and women – snappy leather jackets, double breasted pea coats, sleek trousers and tailored skirts in autumnal red, camel, cream and grey. There are also the bags and accessories that Prada is famed for, and some wonderful 1940s-style peep-toe shoes.
