Margaret Childs
Margaret Childs is CEO and Editor in Chief of Metropole. Originally from New York, she has called Vienna home since high school. She is a board member of AustrianStartups, the independent non-profit platform, which aims to make Austria as famous for entrepreneurship as it is for skiing. She is known for loving Vienna passionately, talking too fast and inhaling coffee like there's no tomorrow. She tweets @mtmchilds
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Opinion | Are you Voting on Sunday? I won’t be.
I won’t be voting in the Austrian election. In fact, I never have.
A few months ago, a media colleague asked if I had thought of entering politics. “In Austria?” I asked. “Yeah, I think...
Melange | Why City Council Renate Brauner Doesn’t Believe in the American Dream
Executive City Councillor Renate Brauner on living well, quotas for women, and why the American dream is nonsense
People notice when she walks into a room. Something in the combination of her warm demeanor, calm...
Editor’s Letter | Do you Know What Eudaimonia Means? | October 2017
When Aristotle taught the concept of The Good Life, he called it Eudaimonia, meaning the kind of life one would like to live, or simply, happiness. Some experts say a more apt translation is...
Melange | Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on Design for the Neo-Biedermeier age
MAK director Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on the resonance of objects, digital humanism and how we can design our way out of the singularity
Every day, as the sun rises over the rooftops of the Ringstrasse, the...
Editor’s Letter | The Beef Between Art and Design | September 2017
Art and design are at the center of a semantic battle. Design can serve the purpose of making things attractive, easy to use, evocative, or simply functional. But unlike fine art, with design, there’s...
Hotel am Brillantengrund and Proprietor’s Marvin Mangalino Recipe for Bistek
The feisty proprietor of Hotel am Brillantengrund runs a family restaurant and art space with a world-famous hipster hotel attached.
Marvin Mangalino is obsessed with cycling and seemingly at one with his hotel. Since he...
Editor’s Letter | Designer Destinations | July/August 2017
Has the world gotten smaller? It feels as though I have an impression of every corner of the globe.
Whether it’s an image of someone backpacking through India, snapshots of a long weekend on the...
Melange | Catching Travel Blogging Fever with Instagram Pioneer Lady Venom
Austrian Marion Payr talked to editor-in-chief Margaret Childs on the evolving world of social media, trends in travel and why Vienna is the best city to come home to.
Marion Payr has one of the...
Penne à la Vodka at Treubleiben Wien
A Persian New Yorker transplants Brooklyn grub to Kirchengasse
At Treubleiben, one of the more recent additions to the Kirchengasse gastro-strip, Kaveh Tabatabaie has recently revamped the menu, doing what so many expats have done...
