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Return of the Krakow Post
Almost a year ago today Krakow's first English language newspaper materialised on the streets of this grand old city, providing ex-pats, businessmen and tourist... | City Focus |
Pope's Would-Be Assassin Wants To Be Polish
Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, has applied for Polish citizenship. The Turkish assassin, who is now serving a second sentence for ... | Current Affairs |
Prince Charles Visits Cracow
Prince Charles is due in Cracow today, accompanied by his wife the Duchess of Cornwall.
The heir to the British throne is set to open a Jewish Community Cent... | City Focus |
Talking Trams
The future may well be a place where dull, robotic voices accost us on every corner. But travellers on the No. 8 tram this week will find some refreshingly roma... | City Focus |
Singing For Fun In Cracow
Belting out some bombastic pop classics makes you feel a lot less troubled by the big bad world outside, as millions of Karaoke fans testify. And as it goes, i... | Art and Culture |
Cracow Prepares A Royal Welcome
Prince Charles and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall are due in Cracow before the end of the month.
The heir to the British throne will be making his third vi... | City Focus |
Katyn Recall
On April 13th 1943, Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels dropped one of his biggest propaganda bombs of the war. German radio began transmitting news of the discovery... | History |
Another One Bites The Dust
Up until 2006, three of Cracow's most picturesque plazas were daily insulted by herds of cars. But these uncouth automobiles are now on the run.
The first bi... | City Focus |
New At The National
Culture vultures should cruise over to the National this weekend as a scintillating show has just opened. 'Records of Change' brings one of the world's finest p... | Art and Culture |
1st Art House Film Festival
Cracow still has a handful of art house cinemas up her sleeve, and long may they continue to flourish. If you've got a soft spot for independent cinema, why not... | Art and Culture |
Krakow's Industry Party Tonight!
It's about time we celebrated all of those hard-working waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cloak room attendees, bouncers, and everyone that spends their weeke... | Art and Culture |
Red General Wants Iron Lady As Witness
General Jaruzelski, the 84-year-old former President of Poland, wants Maggie Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev to act as witnesses at his forthcoming trial.
Sol... | Current Affairs |
Top of The Tree
Palm trees were few and far between in medieval Poland, but that didn't stop locals from knocking off their own versions. When Easter draws near, town squares a... | Comment |
Will Poland Pull Olympic Plug?
A panel of Polish MPs has threatened to boycott the Beijing Olympics in the light of the current debacle in Tibet. Led by Beata Bublewicz of the ruling Civic Pl... | Current Affairs |
Highland Hoopla
Count Dracula is the character that leaps to mind when most of us think about the Carpathians. And given the rich folklore of those lands, it's hardly surprisin... | Art and Culture |
In The Footsteps Of The Fallen
This month marks the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto. On Sunday morning there will be a march of remembrance in tribute to the victims.... | City Focus |
Underground Fighters Honoured
President Kaczynski has decorated thirty former resistance fighters in a gesture towards those who resisted Communist rule.
"The soldiers of these squadrons... | History |
Strip At Your Peril
Travellers who strip off in bars are liable to face short shrift this year, with laws being implemented to curtail lewd behaviour.
Bar-owners have been told... | City Focus |
Rabbis Reconvene In Poland
Last week, Poland's Rabbinical Association was revived for the first time in over half a century. Seven Orthodox rabbis from across Poland convened in the city ... | Comment |
Putting The Knife In
"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." So spoke Pablo Picasso, and indeed, it's long been touted that good taste is the en... | Art and Culture |
Polish Peter Wolfs Down Oscar
All eyes were on Andrzej Wajda and his feature film Katyn, but in the end, it was an animation team that struck gold for Poland at the 80th Academy Awards.
A... | Art and Culture |
10 Years of Photohype
If you've been exploring Krakow's nightlife and haven't run into the Alaskan photographer Geo D Oliver on your travels, then one thing is for sure, you've been ... | Art and Culture |
Wajda Heads For Hollywood
Andrzej Wajda, the grand old man of Polish cinema, is headed for Hollywood this week. The director, who will be 82 next month, has been nominated in the categor... | Art and Culture |
Top Of The Pops 2007
The centres of European cities are littered with tourist traps, and finding an authentic spot can be like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack. A... | City Focus |
Grin And Bear It
British and American readers may remember a TV show called Gentle Ben, in which an excruciatingly annoying boy is repeatedly saved from disaster by a kind-heart... | History |
Cracow Life Turns 5!
February 2008 brings plenty of events in the world, but for us the most important is the birthday of Cracow Life (we know, how self-centred of us). On the 2nd o... | Comment |
Wajda's Katyn in Oscar Running
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's epic film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, simply titled Katyn, has been nominated for the foreign-language Academy Award, or Osc... | Art and Culture |
Krakow: Not Just for Stags Anymore
A new year has brought a new marketing strategy for the city of Krakow, as the promotion department of the Krakow City Council has announced recently. The city ... | Comment |
New Year's Eve in Krakow
This New Year's Eve in Krakow promises to be quite spectacular, as anyone who's been around the Market Square in the past two days has probably noticed. A gigan... | City Focus |
Happy Holidays from Cracow Life!
This year, whether you're decorating a Christmas tree or lighting the candles on a menorah, we hope you enjoy the holiday spirit that's been settling down in Kr... | Comment |
Stop! Schengen Time!
Tonight at midnight Poland will go through one of its most dramatic transformations since joining the European Union: it will enter the Schengen zone. On the 21... | Current Affairs |
Celebrating Tadeusz Kantor
The 17th anniversary of the death of Polish artist and writer Tadeusz Kantor is going on right now, with several cultural institutions remembering the artist in... | Art and Culture |
Christmas Events Begin in Krakow
If the Christmas market hasn't managed to get you in the holiday spirit, this Thursday Christmas is hitting Krakow full-force. First, traditionally the first Th... | City Focus |
National Museum Receives Award
The National Museum in Krakow has just been awarded the Arts & Business 2007 award, representing the most interesting and most effective cooperation of the sphe... | Art and Culture |
A Festival of Festivals
This week is a good one for festivals in Krakow, as there are several top fests going on at the same time. First, there's the Etiuda & Anima Animation Festival ... | Art and Culture |
Euro Challenger Heading to Cracow
Krakow gets its share of backpackers every year, even in the tough winter months. Sure, these Converse-clad long-haired travellers may seem like they don't have... | City Focus |
A Musical Weekend
This weekend is a treat for music lovers. As we wrote earlier, the Festival of Polish Music is already underway, and this weekend it will conclude with performa... | Art and Culture |
Festival of Polish Music Underway
This past weekend, the third annual Festival of Polish Music began with special performances on Sunday and Monday by British violinist Nigel Kennedy, playing pi... | Art and Culture |
All Saint's Day in Krakow
You might have noticed today that almost all the shops are closed, extra trams are running to the cemeteries, and it seems the entire city is bathed in a sombre... | City Focus |
Cremaster Comes to Cracow
The Polish artistic organization A Kuku Sztuka has organized a rare event to take place for the next three days: a screening of acclaimed director Matthew Barne... | Art and Culture |
Rediscovering Judaism in Poland
This weekend, a unique event will take place in Kazimierz, Krakow's historic Jewish quarter. A prayer with songs and dance in the Kupa synagogue will begin a we... | Art and Culture |
A New POland
A high turnout (for Poland) was just one of the main differences between this year's election, which took place this Sunday the 21st of October, and the one in ... | Current Affairs |
New Old Art in the Old Town
This afternoon will feature the opening ceremony of the Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace, the newest branch of the National Museum in Cracow. Fans of medieval art wil... | Art and Culture |
Jagiellonian Honours Dalai Lama
Krakow's prestigious Jagiellonian University has decided to award the Dalai Lama an honorary degree. The decision was made by the Faculty of Philosophy Dean Pro... | Art and Culture |
Peter Greenaway in Krakow
This Saturday, the 13th of October, famed director and VJ (that's video DJ for all those over 30) Peter Greenaway will be performing live on Plac Wszystkich Swi... | Art and Culture |
A World Before A Catastrophe
One of the most evocative exhibitions of the year has been extended for another fortnight, so if you were curious about catching it, don't miss the chance befor... | History |
Palin's Polish Adventure
Michael Palin and Lech Walesa face to face certainly has comic potential, and UK viewers will be treated to this intriguing encounter later in the month in the ... | Art and Culture |
Katyn Film Selected For Oscars
Andrzej Wajda's film Katyn will represent Poland at next year's Academy Awards. The film, which is the first to focus on the 1940 massacre of Polish officers by... | Art and Culture |
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