All Saints’ Day: We all have a candle to light
All Saints’ is perhaps the most atmospheric and distinctive of Polish festivals. But we are all part of the extended family of people in foreign lands.
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Month: October 2015
Cracovian football coach takes Team Poland to new heights
Adam Nawałka, the current Head Coach of the Poland national football team, has turned a notoriously disjointed organization into a smoothly oiled machine.
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Conservative PiS sweeps to power in historic landslide: 2015 election
Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz ousted; far left takes a beating. (Full chart inside)
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2015 Polish parliamentary elections: What you should know
New President Andrzej Duda’s conservative PiS, the minority party for 8 years, is favored in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. What does it mean for Poland?
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Interkulturalia Festival takes aim at xenophobia with education and fun
Dancing and debating, picnicking and painting, and a host of other activities come to Krakow this weekend for the second annual Interkulturalia Festival.
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Drop In: Horai Restaurant
Horai (est. 2005) was Krakow’s first good Asian restaurant. I decided it was time to revisit it and check out whether it still cuts the mustard (or chili).
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Kino Mania: Karbala (2015)
With Karbala, journalism-educated filmmaker Krzysztof Łukaszewicz might become the standard-bearer of a politically-engaged but uncerebral cinema in his country.
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Jewish Krakow: World’s largest shofar announces New Year in Kazimierz
The traditional holiday ram’s horn instrument was transformed by American sculptor Richard Edelman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah in Krakow’s Jewish Quarter
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