My class, have been busy fundraising. Theoretically, we give all year round, but the approach of Christmas has sent everyone into a giving frenzy. December is donation time. Firstly, the senior students are mobilising all members of our community to give to…
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The spectre of violent political extremism intruded into Krakow’s quiet, academic world in November when Polish security services announced they had arrested a chemistry lecturer who had been planning to detonate a massive bomb outside the country’s parliament…
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A Tall Tale for the Festive Season, in which diverse statements of a dubious nature are recounted for the entertainment of Krakow Post readers…
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Local bands, Polish and expat, will dominate this year’s concert on the Rynek…
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A renowned Polish moonshine has been struggling to achieve legal status for 20 years. Now, one local fruit producer has made it through the legislative minefield. Śliwowica, the 70-plus percent plum vodka made in the vicinity of Łącko, near Nowy Sącz…
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Ryszard Apte was 16 at the start of World War II. A native of Krakow, he was the son of one of the city’s tens of thousands of assimilated Jewish families. Living on ul. św. Sebastian, he had attended the Hebrew Gymnasium on ul. Podbrzezie…
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Learn a little Polish every month with the Krakow Post and the Accent School of Polish…
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Krzysztof Komeda proposed the understated term ‘film music’ to describe his contributions to Roman Polański’s movies. The composer of scores for Rosemary’s Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers and Knife in the Water, Komeda is also regarded as…
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I’m a 22 year-old girl and I have never had sex with the same guy twice. I’ve never had a serious boyfriend, which is probably my own fault. Each time I meet a guy, it’s always about sex, sex, sex…
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Galicja po Kolei is a new restaurant, just off Plac Bohaterów Ghetta in Podgórze, that attempts to bring together the varied but related cuisines of these regions with some Czech and Slovakian thrown in for good measure…
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