Sunday, July 22, 2007
An unscientific Internet survey about what the City of Krakow should do with the old Oskar Schindler Factory suggests that most residents are not opposed to the city's idea of using part of it for a modern-art museum.
Opponents of the art museum, who say such a facility should not be built on ground hallowed to Jews, argue that the survey was flawed.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Before you go to sleep today
listen to a little tale.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
The old wooden fence on ul. Miodowa, which has been immortalized in "Schindler's List" and other films, is a perfect drop to a scene about World War II.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Renowned violinist Nigel Kennedy, a Briton whose marriage to a Pole is one reason he fell in love with Poland, will include the music of two little-recorded Romantic-era Polish composers in his next album.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Last week, the luxurious Orient Express made a maiden two-day scheduled stop in Krakow. Well, not quite.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
A Roma group and the Tarnow Ethnographic Museum plan a Roma caravan from July 26 to 29 to commemorate the Nazis' mass murder of Roma during World War II.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Going to numerous performances at the 20th International Street Theater Festival was a sober reminder of how difficult it is to put on an entertaining spectacle, even with an arsenal of fireworks, stilt-walkers, smoke machines, naked women and contraptions at one?s disposal.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Krakow's city council decided that as of 2008, price limits will no longer be obligatory for taxi drivers.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
In Aula Collegium Novum, the administration center of Jagiellonian University, the Swedish slavist Anders Bodegard gave a speech entitled, "Translating Three Translators of the World: Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, Ryszard Kapuscinski."
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Krakow's city center is full of exceptional pubs, clubs and other places where anyone can enjoy themselves.