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Reviewer of the Year 2006
Another year and another round of voting has taken place in the hallowed halls of the Cracow Life offices. But this was not the democratic voting of Cracow's Te...

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Cracow Goes Modern
Anyone strolling through Cracow over the last few weeks will have noticed that something unusual is emerging in central town. We say unusual, but by internation...

City Focus

World Music Film Festival!
A short but sweet - or should we say spicy - festival has just kicked off at Cracow's Manggha Centre. 'Music and the World' casts its net far and wide, reeling ...

Art and Culture

Witch-hunt or Watershed?
A new law introduced this month has sent waves of anxiety through public institutions across Poland. The so-called Lustration Law requires tens of thousands of ...

Current Affairs

Easter arrives in Cracow
Easter is here again, with all its magic - palms, processions and painted eggs. In the Eastern Carpathians, Highlanders believed that painted eggs (pisanki) had...

City Focus

Interactive Krakow Map!
Only a couple of weeks after we launch our brand new look Cracow Life portal, we've only gone and done it again! What wizardry have we been cooking up this time...

City Focus

New Krakow Hotel
An ambitious project is underway to resurrect a complex of eighteenth century buildings on the fringe of Krakow. Jerzy Donimirski, creator of such acclaimed Kra...

City Focus

Szymanowski: Seventy Years On
This week sees the seventieth anniversary of the passing of Karol Szymanowski, Poland's most celebrated modern composer. Joint tributes will be held in Crac...

Art and Culture

Chopin Piano found in English country house
A piano that belonged to Polish hero Fryderyk Chopin has been discovered in an English country house after years of detective work. The Pleyel grand piano wa...

Art and Culture

Landmarks groomed for Anniversary of Location
Plans are afoot to open up the city's medieval fortifications for the 750th Anniversary of the Location of Cracow this June. Cracow's Historical Museum is ch...

City Focus

New Look Cracow Life!
So here it is, a very late Christmas present for all fans of this magnificent city we call home - the all new look Cracow-life.com.! After months of toil, to...

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Controversial Book Published
The publishers wavered as controversy raged last Autumn, but a landmark study went on sale yesterday in bookshops across the country. 'Priests in the Face o...

Current Affairs

Oscar Adventures
It was a barren year for Poland at the Oscars, with not one name ending in ski making it onto the nomination lists. That said, if ever there was a worthy winner...

Art and Culture

Relics of A Rosy Saint
OK, this isn't quite as timely as it could have been (which is always a good way to break flaming hot news...!?). But we thought the story worth telling even if...

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Day of the Paunch
Today is Fat Thursday. And as such, Poles must eat as many doughnuts (paczki) as possible. No one quite knows when this tradition began. Or why for that matter....

City Focus

Jamming with the Giraffe
Had enough of head-numbing house? Well, if you're looking for a novel way to kick off your Friday night frolics, top recommendation this weekend is a gig by loc...

Art and Culture

Bromley's finest in Krakow
The Langley Park School for Girls is remembered by one particular Cracow Life editor with particular fondness. It was this venerable institution that not only e...

Art and Culture

Polanski Picks Volcanic Challenge
Roman Polanski has confirmed that he has a new project in the pipeline. At 150 million dollars, it's being billed as the most expensive European film of all tim...

Art and Culture

The Prestige
Gothic gloom is something that's not lacking in Cracow - it comes creeping round every corner like the good old Count Drac himself. And if you can't get enough ...

Art and Culture

The Flying Moustache Returns
He was one of the unlikeliest sporting heroes of the last decade - a small, frail-looking fellow who looked like he might have trouble lifting a box of apples. ...

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Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007)
The first snows fell yesterday, and with them one of Poland's most celebrated writers. Ryszard Kapuscinski died of cancer in a Warsaw hospital. He was 74. Of...

Art and Culture

Palin in Poland
Although best known internationally for his roles as Arthurian knights and louche lumberjacks, Michael Palin has spent most of the last fifteen years exploring ...

Comment

Lynch and Loach polish their Polish
There's an old joke amongst Poles that the Church works best under mild oppression. As it was, the Church did triumph over the odds during the Soviet era. Likew...

Art and Culture

A Proverbial Mess
Before departing for the yuletide adventure, Cracow Life spotted a book in the press that was getting the proverbial rave reviews. The book was in fact a compen...

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Spy Storm Swells
Another pillar of Polish Catholicism was shaken yesterday when Father Janusz Bielanski resigned from his post as Rector of Krakow's Wawel Cathedral. It was t...

Current Affairs

Remembering A Legend
It was forty years ago this week that Poland's greatest star of the silver screen passed on. Zbigniew Cybulski was running to catch a train at Wroclaw Main ...

Art and Culture

Archbishop Resigns Over Spy Allegations
Incoming Archbishop of Warsaw Stanislaw Wielgus resigned just hours before his official enthronement in the capital this Sunday. It was a dramatic conclusion to...

Current Affairs

Centenary Of Stanislawski
A hundred years ago this week, one of the Poland's best-loved painters kicked the bucket. Jan Stanislawski, famous as much for his fantastic size as for his...

Art and Culture

Prince Charles helping Jewish community
The resurgent district of Kazimierz in Krakow might be best known amongst today's cool cats as a place to hang out with a beer and plan their latest avant garde...

Art and Culture

25 Years Since Martial Law
On this day 25 years ago, Poland's Communist government declared a state of Martial Law. The tanks rolled in, the nation's phone lines were cut, a curfew was in...

History

12th Animated Film Festival
Aces from the world of animated film will be descending on Kino Wrzos this week for a three day feast of film. As it goes, the Wrzos cinema would be worth ...

Art and Culture

Crazy Creche Show
The annual Christmas Crib competition was on the verge of Monty Python type mayhem when it opened this morning on the Market Square. The organisers inaugurated ...

City Focus

Christmas Crib Competition!
Thursday will see one of Cracow's best-loved Christmas traditions come to life. Over the last few days, artistic Cracovians of all ages have been putting the fi...

Comment

Christmas Market Opens
It may have been difficult to make much out under the heavy morning fog, but the Christmas Market opened today in all its glory. By lunchtime, the giant barrels...

City Focus

Cracow Mayor Holds On
Jacek Majchrowski has won a second term as Mayor of Cracow, beating off challenger Ryszard Terlecki by 20% of the vote. Precise figures from yesterday's elec...

Current Affairs

Explosion Brings Tragedy To Silesia
Rescue workers were struggling through the night yesterday after a Silesian coal-mine was rocked by an explosion. Eight miners have already been pronounced d...

Current Affairs

Banners Recall Bloody Legacy
Travellers ambling across the Rynek this morning were struck by a chilling sight. A twenty-metre-long Nazi banner has been unfurled from the 'Phoenix Mansion' a...

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Mel Gibson to play Polish King?!
Reports have emerged that Mel 'Madmax' Gibson has been approached to play King Jan Sobieski in an epic movie about the 1683 Siege of Vienna. Wroclaw-based pr...

Art and Culture

The Departed
Tags such as 'gripping' or 'on the edge of your seat' are endlessly bandied about when it comes to the movies, but Martin Scorsese has indeed pushed the adrenal...

Art and Culture

Poster Art in Krakow
The opening of the exhibit “Pracownia Plakatu” (“Poster Workshop”) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow will take place this Tuesday, 7 November, beginning a...

Art and Culture

Rock Concert This Friday
Up for a bit of live music this friday night in Krakow? Well head down to Kawiarnia Naukowa on Jakuba street (in Kazmierz) to find some rock of the distinctly l...

Art and Culture

Fallen Leaves
As little as four years ago, Cracow resembled a ghost town on November 1st. As All Saints got underway, every last shop shut its doors, and it was difficult eve...

City Focus

The Informed Conscience
This week, the Church was back on the front pages as its struggles with communist demons ramified. The episcopate has decided to silence Father Tadeusz Izakowic...

Current Affairs

For Your Freedom And Ours: Budapest '56
The Pole and the Magyar like brothers stand Whether with sword or with goblet in hand. Thus went the old adage, and in the autumn 1956, the rhyme proved tr...

History

Blackburn striker claims racial abuse
Racism has (apparently) reared its ugly head amidst claims made by Blackburn manager Mark Hughes that his South African striker Benni McCarthy was racially abus...

City Focus

Vintage Krakow
If you have a friend who loves Cracow - or that friend just happens to be you - an early Christmas present has just arrived on the shelves. Bosz has streaked aw...

Art and Culture

Reach For The Sky
SkyEurope has just launched its Summer 2007 flight sales, so if you're after the best deals, log on now and catch them while you can. Selected routes are val...

Comment

DnB King Due In Krakow
Drum n Bass legend LTJ Bukem will be touching down in Cracow this weekend for some Friday night frolics. He'll be joined by MC Conrad - the outstanding voice of...

City Focus

Memoir Tells Of Life With Pope
Archbishop of Cracow Stanislaw Dziwisz is to publish a memoir about his life at the side of Pope John Paul II. 'A Life With Karol' follows forty years of servic...

City Focus

'Nowe Miasto' Opens
This Saturday some friends were held up for three hours at Cracow's train station. For once, this had nothing to do with late trains, drunken drivers, phantom t...

City Focus

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