Helen Ifeagwu
Explore Glorious Ukraine
Europe’s second-largest country flaunts the blue of its skies and the golden fields of wheat in its flag – but Ukraine has so much more to offer.
ELO and Waves Vienna
The 1970s pop icons are reunited and on tour at Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra, and up-and-coming tour Vienna’s most storied venues at the Waves Festival. Here are two events no music lover should miss this summer: Electric Light Orchestra Nearly as iconic to the 1970s as bell bottoms, platform shoes and mullet hairstyles, the […]
New Kids in Town
The Junges Ensemble at the Theater an der Wien: boot camp for six newly minted opera singers. The opera world can be “a crazy and dangerous place,” smiles Jochen Breiholz of Theater an der Wien (TadW). Of course it’s an overstatement, but Breiholz does know something about how strenuous the business can be: He’s the […]
Affordable Luxury
For nearly a century, Vienna’s Gemeindebauten have gotten municipal housing projects right. Picture the clusters of typical multistoried apartment buildings speckled across Vienna: the ones with hanging balconies, sometimes enclosing well-manicured residential court-yards brought to life with the exciting chatter of families and children. Anyone unfamiliar with the city could be forgiven for mistaking them […]
Joaquin Phoenix Turns in an Unapologetic Performance in Gus Van Sant’s Lat...
Gus Van Sant explores resilience through pitch-black humor
Based on a true story, this sweet-and-sour biopic on Jon Callahan, an alcoholic quadriplegic turned cartoonist, falls perfectly into the...
Hide from the Heat at the Cool Calle Libre Street Art Festival
See how Street Art breaks boundaries in the world of art
As summer scorches Vienna, the torturous heat may tempt locals and visitors into momentary lockdown, but it certainly hasn’t stopped a mos...
Traditional Japanese Cuisine Finds a Second Home at Kuishimbo
Keisuke Numata enriches Vienna’s food culture with traditional Japanese cuisine Take one quick stroll along your local food court and you may come to believe that the world revolves around cold, vinegared rice melded with raw fish into bite-size cakes wrapped in seaweed. While sushi’s popularity is holding fast, Kyoto-born chef Keisuke Numata, spills an […]
Spirited Away | “Ghosts from the Past and Present” at Impulstanz
The Impulstanz festival sweeps you off your feet with the best of choreography’s past, present and future When you add a pinch of ballet, a drop of jazz, a dash of creative freedom and ably dismantle the linear principals of classicism, a new spirit is born: contemporary dance. Constantly playing with new forms of expression and […]
