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Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with…
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Vienna Circle: Where Internationals Meet
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Promising Gas Fields In Cyprus
Since the discovery of gas fields some 180 km offshore south of Cyprus in late 2011, the country has been…
Book Review: The Duty of Genius
Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and…
Austrians Keep Their Secrets
Changing banking laws is tricky, wherever it’s done. It affects nations, businesses and citizens – in fact, everything. In Austria,…
When Music Caused Riots
“If that’s a bassoon, I’m a baboon!” quipped composer Camille Saint-Saëns on hearing the opening bars of Igor Stravinsky’s The…
MQM: A New Home For Media Companies
“Welcome to the future!” shouts the sign outside the Media Quarter Marx (MQM), proclaiming a complex aim to be ahead…
Körperwelten: Body Worlds Reaches Out
“One can tell the morals of a culture by the way they treat their dead.” – Benjamin Franklin I first…
“We want to make our city a better place to live in and bikes can play a key role,”…
Three years after decriminalisation, Prague is slowly but surely replacing Amsterdam as the mecca of Europe’s drug scene. “Cannabis has…
The annals of publishing history are rife with writers lost in the grinding wheels of intellectual fashion. So it is…
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Luring la Vida Loca
From the outside it didn’t look like much – I desperately searched the door for some indication of Latin America. Nothing. Not knowing what…
Restaurant Review: Particularly Persian
For insiders, Pars is old news. It’s long been the go-to place for Persian expats. When he began working at his parents’ small establishment…
Ray Monk first public appearance in Vienna
Wittgenstein is considered the most influential philosopher of the 20th century and Prize-winning biographer Ray Monk will discuss the philosopher’s life-shaping studies at Cambridge University from…
Cathedral Curiosities History Lines St. Step…
Visitors seem well-versed in the lore of the Stephansdom. They know roughly where and what it is: a 900-year-old cathedral in the city centre…
11 Women & Their Wines
I will side-step the many clichés in introducing a piece on women in wine – overalls and calloused hands are not key – and…
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Luring la Vida Loca
From the outside it didn’t look like much – I desperately searched the door for some indication of Latin America. Nothing. Not knowing…
Restaurant Review: Particularly Persian
For insiders, Pars is old news. It’s long been the go-to place for Persian expats. When he began working at his parents’ small…
Ride the Pony
You’re at a club. Over the din you hear the first riff of that tune from way back when, that cheesy, heavy-rotation song…
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At the Centre of Integrative Medicine, 13 experts treat the mind, body and spirit – all at the same time. What sounds like hocus-pocus is offered as a…
We’ve all been there: It’s date night, and your usual smoke-filled bar full of rowdy regulars doesn’t scream romance. Neither does the restaurant around the corner, a place you’ve been so often…
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Book Review: The Duty of Genius
Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a…
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Life Ball 2013
Since 1993, the annual ball – organised by Gery Keszler and Torgom Petrosian’s non-profit organisation AIDS LIFE – has raised funds and awareness for people living with HIV…
NYC Meets Vienna Design
On 17 April, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York opened The Vienna Model, celebrating the architectural tradition of Red Vienna, creating public housing for the Viennese between 1925…
Bringing back Kokoschka
A painting by the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, valued at €3 million, will be returned to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer, Alfred Flechtheim, who was persecuted by…
Rock the Island Festival
The fourth annual Rock the Island Contest is part of Vienna’s Donauinselfest (Danube Island Festival), which takes place between 21 and 23 June. The contest gives emerging artists…
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Cycle City Vienna: Planning and Paving the Way
“We want to make our city a better place to live in and bikes can play a key role,” says Alec Hager of the…
Raiffeisen’s Upward Sustainability
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The Truth About Legalising Drugs
Three years after decriminalisation, Prague is slowly but surely replacing Amsterdam as the mecca of Europe’s…
The Vienna Philharmonic: An Orchestra, a ring and a past
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Austrians Keep Their Secrets
Changing banking laws is tricky, wherever it’s done. It affects nations, businesses and citizens – in…
MQM: A New Home For Media Companies
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Cathedral Curiosities History Lines St. Stephen’s
Visitors seem well-versed in the lore of the Stephansdom. They know roughly where and what it…
Pratercottage – Secret Suburb Downtown
Siebensternviertel: Community by Design
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11 Women & Their Wines
I will side-step the many clichés in introducing a piece on women in wine – overalls…