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Marshal Street, in the heart of Warsaw. A big, burly guy is standing in…
Conscientious Deserters Recognised
The City of Vienna announced plans to erect by 2013 Austria’s first monument to…
Wiener Charta
An independent commission tasked with writing a “Vienna Charta”, guidelines to enhance communal life…
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Slamming: Words Are All You’ve Got
Vienna’s Café Prückel is not easily impressed by great poets and writers. After all,…
The Many Faces of Cindy Sherman
Photographer Cindy Sherman arrived in New York in the late 1970s from upstate Buffalo,…
Clegg & Guttmann: Unraveling Codes of Status
Before the glass façade of the Bawag Contemporary on Franz-Josefs-Kai, the high intensity reflections…
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The House on Michaelerplatz
Despite a century of efforts to set the record straight, Adolf Loos remains frequently…
Free Writer’s Workshop Intro with TVR Editor, Wed. 23 May
Come join fellow writers and learn new techniques of how to portray the Vienna…
But What About the Soldiers?
When Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin was first published in English in 2010,…
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How Much Should Sex Matter?
Jenna Talackova reached the finals of Miss Universe Canada [in March], before being disqualified…
Original Sin: The Dollfuss Legacy
Finally, Austria seems to be clearing out the skeletons in its closet: In 2009,…
The Call of The Hunt
“I am very sorry. I made a mistake and it will not happen again,”…
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Vienna Circle: Vienna’s Rowing Clubs
On 7 April, all of Britain will be watching the annual Oxford Cambridge Boat…
Animal Instincts
In Vienna, the authorities won’t stop you from owning a camel or water buffalo.…
Vienna Circle: Hash House Harriers
“Hashing” gets its name from the Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur, from where the…
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Retail: Worn Out In Warsaw
Marshal Street, in the heart of Warsaw. A big, burly guy is standing in a crowded department store looking extremely…
Original Sin: The Dollfuss Legacy
Finally, Austria seems to be clearing out the skeletons in its closet: In 2009, court convictions of soldiers who deserted…
A Licence to Torture
The police officer touched his index finger to his lips, signalling silence. With his other hand he shooed pedestrians away.…
The Danube Canal: Vienna’s Riviera
At night, the Marienbrücke’s concrete face is cast in an ultra-marine light. Symbolising “Mary’s cloak”, the illumined bridge seems intent…
Branford Marsalis, Music and Words
Branford Marsalis, along with his flamboyant brother Wynton, together represent the past, present and future of jazz. Over the course…
An American Composer in Vienna
When I first came to Vienna, I couldn’t speak German: For weeks the only person I could understand was Eugene…
“Four hours,” a German colleague had said. A strapping, beer belly-free 30-something, he clarified: “You’ll need about four hours to…
Once again, Europe is obsessed with the “German problem”: Greek protesters have portrayed Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, wearing a…
“Does this train strike you as taking you to a nice place?” asks my only fellow passenger in the sole…
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Slamming: Words Are All You’ve Got
Vienna’s Café Prückel is not easily impressed by great poets and writers. After all, too many are already there slouching in a corner, sipping…
The Many Faces of Cindy Sherman
Photographer Cindy Sherman arrived in New York in the late 1970s from upstate Buffalo, at about the same time that Clegg and Guttmann were…
Clegg & Guttmann: Unraveling Codes of Status
Before the glass façade of the Bawag Contemporary on Franz-Josefs-Kai, the high intensity reflections from the UNIQA Tower LichtSpiel across the Wienfluss bounce before…
When Cultures Collide, Life Is a Cabaret
Jenny Simanowitz is a natural comedian. It’s clear from the way she blows into a room, in a swirl of arms and bangles and…
Marathon Training, with a Viennese View
There is a myth floating around, ever since the days of Pheidippides, that there is a glitch in the genetic make-up of a marathon…
Out And About View all
Gourmet Goes Bohemian At Holy-Moly on the Canal
Many know that the Schwedenplatz neighbourhood is scattered full of cafés, bistros and restaurants – it’s a hub of sorts of the city’s…
After Dark: Chaya Fuera
There has been something missing in Vienna’s live music scene. When his new club Chaya Fuera opened on 23 Mar., Stephan Ebner told…
Beaulieu: a Bistro in a Beautiful Place
On the façade of La Mère Catherine on Montmartre’s Place du Tertre, a sign claims that on 30 Mar. 1814, Cossack soldiers occupying…
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On 7 April, all of Britain will be watching the annual Oxford Cambridge Boat Race, taking place for the 158th time on the Thames in South East London.…
In Vienna, the authorities won’t stop you from owning a camel or water buffalo. They figure on the official list of approved pets. With a pet population of…
“Hashing” gets its name from the Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur, from where the first “hash” started in 1938. Because of its lacklustre food the club was also…
Changes in the immigration law dating from last June are having a large impact on foreign students looking to work in Austria. Under the new system, students from…
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The House on Michaelerplatz
Despite a century of efforts to set the record straight, Adolf Loos remains frequently misunderstood both as an architect and as a thinker. As an…
Columns View all
Branford Marsalis, Music and Words
Branford Marsalis, along with his flamboyant brother Wynton, together represent the past, present and future of jazz. Over the course of the past quarter-century, each has taken his…
Jörg Leichtfried: The Beruf of Jazz
On a recent dark Winter’s eve, emerging from the Pilgramgasse U-Bahn station in the glow of the golden arches of the neighbourhood McDonald’s, I found my way along…
From Spring to Festivals
Once again Spring is in the air, full of revival, renewal and anticipation. All around us there is much to look forward to as the evenings lengthen and…
Ideas And Trends View all
The Tweeting Classes
Twitter boasts a global network in which over 140 million active users post some 340 million messages a day, advertising nightclubs or chatting about celebrities.…
High-Altitude Euphoria
Urbanauts: The Real Boutique Hotel
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A Licence to Torture
The police officer touched his index finger to his lips, signalling silence. With his other hand…
Worlds Apart? The Many Jewish Viennas
“We don’t live in a ghetto”
Austria View all
The Danube Canal: Vienna’s Riviera
At night, the Marienbrücke’s concrete face is cast in an ultra-marine light. Symbolising “Mary’s cloak”, the…
Still Waiting For A Slice of the Cake
Acceptable Risk?
City Life View all
A Cloister for Academics: The Habsburgs’ University
The history of the University of Vienna (Universität Wien) stretches back almost 650 years. During that…
Am Kahlenberg: The Sky’s the Limit – Literally
Franziskanerviertel – Little City Downtown
Scenes Of Vienna View all
Marathon Training, with a Viennese View
There is a myth floating around, ever since the days of Pheidippides, that there is a…