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Nov.20.2008 | |
Wednesday morning began a little differently here in the Cracow Life offices, as the second graders of Public School 72 visited for a few hours. The visit was p... | |
Nov.7.2008 | |
Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, hailed Barack Obama's election victory as "a joyful moment" and "a renewal of faith of Americans in their national my... | |
Oct.15.2008 | |
The National Museum is preparing for one of its biggest shows of the year - a groundbreaking retrospective of Zofia Stryjenska. Born in 1891, Stryjenska wo... | |
Oct.3.2008 | |
Helicopters have been scanning the city after several sightings of an unidentified mammal. The animal, believed to be a young lion or another member of the ... | |
Sept.09.2008 | |
Poland romped to victory at the weekend in Glasgow during the Eurovision's second ever Dance Contest - sister of the famous Eurovision Song Contest. Dancer E... | |
Sept.2.2008 | |
Poland's most swashbuckling monarch will return to Krakow this month to celebrate the 325th anniversary of the Relief of Vienna. King Jan Sobieski (r.1674-16... | |
Aug.26.2008 | |
Poland got off to a horrendous start at this year's Olympics, and after ten days without a medal, doom-mongers were predicting the country's worst ever performa... | |
Aug.19.2008 | |
The expansive grounds of Krakow's Aviation Museum are to be turned into the city's biggest contemporary music event this weekend for the Coke Live Festival. ... | |
Aug.14.2008 | |
After an emphatic 5-1 victory against Beitar Jerusalem saw Wisla advance their Champions League qualification campaign, there were hopes that this might be a go... | |
Aug.07.2008 | |
Few people know that ul. Sw. Sebastiana 9 is the site of the former Museum of Natural History in Krakow, and even fewer people know of the grand plans for the t... | |
July.21.2008 | |
A state funeral was held on Monday in Warsaw for Bronislaw Geremek, one of the leading lights of the Solidarity era. Mr. Geremek was killed on July 13th whe... | |
Jul.14.2008 | |
As sporting contests go, this one had it all. Skill, strategy, changes of fortune, and battles against not only the opposition, but nerves and the raging elemen... | |
July.7.2008 | |
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has flown to Washington for 'last chance' talks about the proposed ant-missile shield that the US hopes to build in Polan... | |
July.2.2008 | |
The 18th International Festival of Jewish Culture is reaching its climax, and on Saturday 5th June, revellers will be ripping up Szeroka Street for the end of f... | |
Jun.24.2008 | |
Agnieszka Radwanska from Krakow earned a hard fought victory against Russia rival Nadia Petrova in the final of the Eastbourne UK International Women's Competit... | |
June.18.2008 | |
Slip out of the city this Sunday to Tyniec Abbey, where the monks are hosting a summer fair selling all manner of tasty victuals. And if you want to really push... | |
June.13.2008 | |
There was jubilation throughout Krakow, and the rest of Poland, for the best part of 90 minutes as the Poles' beloved national team held on comfortably to their... | |
Jun.06.2008 | |
There's an air of excitement bordering on hysteria right now, as Poland's national team make their final preparations for the UEFA Euro 2008 Championships to be... | |
May.21.2008 | |
It's not all nostalgia in Cracow, as proved by the current open air exhibition on the Maly Rynek. Locals and travellers can catch a glimpse of cutting edge crea... | |
May.19.2008 | |
Mondays are typically low key affairs in Krakow. The Easyjetters have got in the planes back home, the workers have been chained back to their desks (Cracow Lif... | |
May.15.2008 | |
At first glance Krakow and Ibiza might not seem to have much in common. Whereas the White Isle is synonymous with drinking mojitos at Cafe Mambo and watching th... | |
May.09.2008 | |
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... | |
May.5.2008 | |
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 ... | |
April.29.2008 | |
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... | |
April.18.2008 | |
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... | |
April.17.2008 | |
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... | |
April.17.2008 | |
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... | |
April.14.2008 | |
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... | |
April.9.2008 | |
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... | |
Apr.8.2008 | |
Travellers planning a trip to Auschwitz next week may be intrigued by a one-off event that's being hosted this coming Wednesday (April 16th, 8pm). The newly ... | |
Apr.4.2008 | |
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... | |
March.31.2008 | |
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... | |
Mar.31.2008 | |
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... | |
March.25.2008 | |
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... | |
March.18.2008 | |
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... | |
March.17.2008 | |
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... | |
March.14.2008 | |
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... | |
March.12.2008 | |
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.... | |
March.6.2008 | |
President Kaczynski has decorated thirty former resistance fighters in a gesture towards those who resisted Communist rule. "The soldiers of these squadrons... | |
March.4.2008 | |
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... | |
Feb.28.2008 | |
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 ... | |
Feb.26.2007 | |
"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... | |
Feb.25.2008 | |
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... | |
Feb.21.2008 | |
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 ... | |
Feb.19.2008 | |
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... | |
Feb.13.2008 | |
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... | |
Feb.11.2002 | |
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... | |
Feb.05.2008 | |
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... | |
Jan.28.2008 | |
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... | |
Jan.08.2008 | |
Only an hour and a half away from Krakow lies one of the most tragic and depressing monuments to the destructive nature of man: Auschwitz, or Oswiecim as it is ... | |
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