News & Views Directory 6
This is a full directory of all 1350 articles about Krakow, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Jun.22.2007 | |
You may have noticed that Krakow got a bit greener today - and we don't mean the beautiful summer grass or the trees in the Planty! Today Cracow Life unveiled e... | |
Jun.20.2007 | |
Starting this weekend, Cracovians will hear a lot of klezmer music coming from Kazimierz, as well as spectacles and special exhibitions set up all around the di... | |
Jun.15.2007 | |
The National Museum of Krakow, together with the modern art gallery Bunkier Sztuki have organized a new exhibition titled At Last, Something New!. Not only is t... | |
Jun.12.2007 | |
...Or so the Polish Minister or Education, Roman Giertych (of the significantly disturbing League of Polish Families party), would have you believe. So Giertych... | |
Jun.06.2007 | |
The good citizens of Krakow have hardly been short-changed in the past when it comes to places to party and let loose. Depending on which source you trust there... | |
June.1.2007 | |
A fortnight of celebrations is about to kick off as Cracow recalls a seminal moment in her history. 750 years ago the city was in a supremely sorry state. The M... | |
May.29.2007 | |
Have you been thinking lately, "Gee, Cracow Life's online guide sure is helpful, but I wish I could take it with me on my trip to Cracow!"? Well fear not, we ha... | |
May.21.2007 | |
The famous Cannes film festival has kicked off, and today a star of Polish cinema will be making a special appearance, along with a film classic. Director Andrz... | |
May.16.2007 | |
No, not the cheesy Ben Stiller movie - this night at the museum(s) involves an experience that will actually stimulate your mind! For one night every year for t... | |
May.10.2007 | |
Cracow's Month of Photography is now underway, offering image conscious travellers a banquet of stuff to savour. It's one of our favourite events of the year, a... | |
May.2.2007 | |
In the wake of last week's riots in Tallinn, Poland has given the go ahead for a string of communist era monuments to be removed from towns and cities across th... | |
Apr.24.2007 | |
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... | |
April.16.2007 | |
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... | |
April.12.2007 | |
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 ... | |
April.10.2007 | |
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 ... | |
April.6.2007 | |
Easter is here again, with all its magic - palms, processions and painted eggs. In the Eastern Carpathians, Highlanders believed that painted eggs (pisanki) had... | |
Mar.29.2007 | |
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... | |
March.29.2007 | |
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... | |
March.26.2007 | |
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... | |
March.19.2007 | |
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... | |
March.12.2007 | |
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... | |
Mar.01.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.28.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.26.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.19.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.15.2007 | |
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.... | |
Feb.14.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.13.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.8.2007 | |
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... | |
Feb.2.2007 | |
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 ... | |
Jan.29.2007 | |
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. ... | |
Jan.24.2006 | |
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... | |
Jan.23.2006 | |
Although best known internationally for his roles as Arthurian knights and louche lumberjacks, Michael Palin has spent most of the last fifteen years exploring ... | |
Jan.19.2006 | |
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... | |
Jan.16.2006 | |
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... | |
Jan.9.2006 | |
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... | |
Jan.10.2007 | |
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 ... | |
Jan.8.2007 | |
Incoming Archbishop of Warsaw Stanislaw Wielgus resigned just hours before his official enthronement in the capital this Sunday. It was a dramatic conclusion to... | |
Jan. 3.2006 | |
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... | |
Dec.21.2006 | |
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... | |
Dec.13.2006 | |
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... | |
Dec.11.2006 | |
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 ... | |
Dec.7.2006 | |
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 ... | |
Dec.3.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.28.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.27.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.22.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.20.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.13.2006 | |
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... | |
Nov.14.2006 | |
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... | |
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