Dardis McNamee
Dardis McNamee is the Publisher and Editor at Large of METROPOLE Vienna in English.
Opinion | What’s to Come of the Neighborhood Beisl?
The closing of the beloved Café Industrie on the Margaretengürtel in May made headlines in Vienna
A family Lokal handed down from mother to daughter into the 3rd generation, the café ran headlong into a...
Opinion | To Sunday or not to Sunday
Retail stores in Austria still stay closed on Sundays, but the benefits outweigh the inconveniences
So Richard Lugner is at it again. This summer, for the third time, the shopping center magnate has gone to...
Opinion | How the Solar Eclipse Shows how Tiny we Really are
“It’s difficult to make predictions,” the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr liked to say, “especially about the future” – a proverb that captured quite elegantly the gap between what is real and what we can prove....
Opinion | The Controversial Heumarkt Project Endangers Vienna’s UNESCO World Heritage Status and Skyline
Vienna has traded their skyline to improve the Wiener Eislaufverein and other public spaces in the area. But at what cost?
In this proud old city, the prospect of tearing down a familiar landmark for a high gloss...
Opinion | More Than Just Fresh air, the Mountains cut off Your Phone, but...
Summer in the mountains is a world apart: Here, the air is thick with smells of moist earth, acacia and wild honeysuckle. On a cloudless day, the light is clear and shimmering, the night...
Opinion | Former Foreign Minister Alois Mock, Remembered for Cutting the “Iron Curtain”, Passes...
History is often remembered in an iconic photograph, and so it was when the Foreign Ministers of Austria, Alois Mock, and Hungary, Guyla Horn, met on June 27, 1989 on the border near Sopron,...
Opinion | Kurz the Boy Wonder
When Sebastian Kurz was asked to be State Secretary for Integration in 2011, he was 24 years old.
It was a new position, and then-ÖVP party chairman Michael Spindelegger knew he was taking a...
Opinion | The Politics of Women’s Clothing on Beaches and Billboards
The politics of women’s clothing in advertising
A double billboard fills the end wall of an apartment house just off the Karmelitermarkt in Vienna’s 2nd district, heralding the beginning of summer with luscious posters of...
