Elegance, Minimalism, Flesh: CR loves Paweł Skurski
The artist’s work reveals “A fascination with woman and with questions about her nature and magnetism…”
Features
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
The Betweeners: A Work by Ian Wojtowicz
Ian Wojtowicz staged his work, “The Betweeners” at Montreal’s Skol in April 2010.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
Big Mary and the Slavic Miners’ Battle with King Coal
The coal patch town of Lattimer, Pennsylvania was the scene of one of the most deadly attacks by the coal companies against the defenseless miners and their families. Vince Chesney tells this story with special tribute to “Big Mary” Steptak, an immigrant whose eloquent oratory in several Slavic languages united the miners in their struggle for basic rights.
2010 Vol. 2 No. 2 — Summer / Features
“Reporting from DC, this is Justine Jablonska”
She spent the final quarter of her graduate journalism program in Medill’s Washington DC newsroom. A few highlights from Justine Jablonska’s 12-week adventure in the U.S. capital.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Features
Reconciling Past and Present in the Shadow of the Palace of Culture
Is there a parallel between Warsaw’s Soviet-built Palace and Poles’ relationship with their past?
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Features / Interviews
Recovering a Stolen Childhood
Wesley Adamczyk survived deportation to Siberia and exile to chronicle that journey in When God Looked the Other Way, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. His father, Jan Adamczyk, was one of tens of thousands of Polish officers killed in the Katyń massacre.
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Features / Music
Jazzing Up Chopin’s Classic: Romantic Inspirations with a Twist
Chopin starts from a simple melody and then, releasing his imagination, departs from the main theme and plays one variation after another… Part of our series of articles for the Year of Chopin – 2010.
2009 — Winter / Features
The Noble and Compassionate Heart of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi
Between August 1942 and November 1946, close to 1,000 Polish children and their guardians lived in idyllic settlements on the Kathiawar Peninsula in India not far from the summer residence of the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi. They had come at the Maharaja’s invitation from orphanages in Ashkabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, and Samarkand.
2009 — Winter / Features
Two Generations: 1989 and 2009
Don’t stifle the natural optimism of kids, Kris Kotarski finds out in conversations with some very young Poles.
2009 — Winter / Features
Spy versus Spy: a Kuklinski Saga
It could be said that conflict between opposites ultimately assumes a new place in the universe. One can arrive at many examples of opposing forces taking on transformations, even often fleeting ones – evil versus good, black versus white, women versus men, yin versus yang, communism versus capitalism, etc. Who would think that my surname, Kuklinski, could be poised in such a contest of antipodal proportions?
2009 — Winter / Features
The Anthracite Coal Region: a Living Reflection of Polish History
“This place is like a time capsule. You guys still talk about Lemkos and Galicia. We don’t even talk about that stuff,” said exchange student Lyudmyla Sonchak during an ethnic festival near Minersville, Pennsylvania.
2009 — Winter / Features
When Decency Meant Heroism
In early November, just in time for Holocaust Education Week, a special delegation from Poland arrived in Canada. Three Righteous Gentiles, who between them saved seven Jews from Nazi terror and helped countless others and a child Holocaust survivor, sheltered and later adopted by a Christian couple, came to tell Canadians their stories.
2009 — Winter / Features
Americans in Warsaw
What can I say about Poland, after one month in Warsaw? That the Poles have become more American than the Americans? If not entirely accurate, like other facile observations, there’s a grain of truth here. Part of the reason is that Poles are doing well these days.
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