April 2018

E-mobility, autonomous driving, public transport & the last mile Flip through the digital version

From lightning over the Tatras to the growing firs on the slopes of Kriváň Mountain, the Slovak anthem praises the rugged beauty of this country ...

Maja Haderlap’s debut novel Angel of Oblivion confronts the past in Austria’s borderlands. Austrian writer Maja Haderlap is a farmer’s daughter...

Two journalists, both first-hand witnesses of Slovakia’s transition from a place through the looking glass to a country at the heart of the European p...

The murder of journalist Ján Kuciak has shaken Slovakia out of its complacency. Here, big things often happen in years ending in “8”. ...

Vienna has taken a lead in modern mobility solutions and public transports for decades. As pollution, congestion and the climate crisis become an ever...

What would we have done? Trying to grasp what we can never fully understand. This year’s commemoration of the Anschluss of Austria by Nazi Germ...

There’s so much good television on streaming websites, to say nothing of the films. It’s impossible to keep track of what is worth your while. As spri...

To be truly integrated in Vienna there are certain terms no dictionary or Deutschkurs will properly explain. But you’re no stranger, so here’s this mo...

A nod to simpler times, the weight of this brass beauty creates optimal weight for long writing, its gel roll design providing exceptionally e...

April showers bring May flowers, but keeping fit, feeling at home and being totally radical are important, too. SUPERCYCLE BOUTIQUE STUDIO N...

A quick-and-dirty synopsis of recent headlines in Vienna. Real Operetta or Merely a State Crisis? In the early hours of February 28, public prosec...

An American with Slovak roots shares his memories of the day when Slovakia was born. The air was frigid on Bratislava’s Námestie SNP as the calenda...

Karl Sigmund’s new book Exact Thinking in Demented Times tells the dramatic history of an intellectual revolution. Sometime around 1900, in the spi...

Bratislava, once at the center of the Empire, is now one of Europe’s youngest capitals. by James Thomson & Carmen Viragova, with Dardis McN...

Whether we’re getting around by car, bike, metro or just heading across the street, it takes a whole city to keep us mobile. “We accommodate 2.6 ...

It often seems impossible for an outsider to get a job at the UN. But is it really? “No,” said Linda Starodub, who recently retired from 30 plus ye...

With the Straßenbahn in their DNA, the Viennese are abandoning their cars for public transport and looking forward to robot chauffeurs. Bumper to bum...

As the largest protests since 1989 rock Slovakia following the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak, fellow contributors wonder about the fut...

On a little square, tucked away at the bottom of Praterstraße, stands a gentleman cast in iron, his Napoleon collar high on his neck, top ha...

Vienna's Hauptbahnhof has spawned a whole new neighborhood. Even in a metropolis as staunchly traditional as Vienna, change is the only constant....

Whether we’re getting around by car, bike, metro or just heading across the street, it takes a whole city to keep us mobile. "The main reason peo...

New modes of transport are trying to change the way we travel. But are they really a match for Austria’s time-tested infrastructure? Austria’s trai...

An Austro-French couple serves viennoiseries to the Viennese. Barely half a year in business, Parémi, the new boulangerie/patisserie b...

Whether we’re getting around by car, bike, metro or just heading across the street, it takes a whole city to keep us mobile. “Everybody’s heard o...

Heunisch & Erben’s huge wine selection and scrumptious menu make the perfect pairing. Vienna has enjoyed a flurry...

Whether we’re getting around by car, bike, metro or just heading across the street, it takes a whole city to keep us mobile. “Going to a regular ...

The Let’s CEE Film Festival returns with the very best from Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus. Just six years old an...

Mixing the profound with the absurd, Lucky pays tribute to the late Harry Dean Stanton and leaves audiences pondering. There’s a certa...

Benjamin Britten’s take on Shakespeare’s seminal comedy comes to life in a brand new production. English may not be n...

The sharing economy makes us more flexible but is no substitute for a true social community. When my Airbnb host introduced me to his children ...

One of three brothers, Markus Kreisel is at the forefront of innovation in e-mobility and energy solutions – in the Mühlviertel, of all places. ...

The legend and Nobel laureate continues his never ending tour with his first triple album. One of the most important ...

In our age of e-commerce, it is the mobility of things that has become ever more important. Logistic companies aim to tackle the problem with new tech...

Thoughts about music in a raucous world and International Noise Awareness Day. The concert halls in Vienna are phenomenal spaces. You might think I...

The Krypt updates the speakeasy with award-winning décor and drinks. Little do we think about the space beneath our feet; our cities are fu...

The Volkstheater descends into rockstar territory in Much Ado About Nothing. While the works of William Shakespeare are often considered timeless, ...

In Austria, privacy is king. The advent of drones is thus seen with a good measure of skepticism and trepidation. But you can still pilot them legally...

A big retrospective presents outstanding works from Anton Romako, a painter ahead of his time. One of the great pioneers of Modernism, Anton Romako...

Feeling the urge to get out of town and hit the open road? It may be time to get an Austrian driver's license. It had been snowing all night. S...

Old Masters meet the new, bridging the gaps in the KHM’s collection with an new exhibit, "The Shape of Time". Despite representing some 5,000 years...

The Vienna International Cycle Club is a social media success story. It’s a Sunday morning and the clock is approaching ten in the morning. On the St...

The Viennese love their white wines young and fresh. Winemakers in Gols would prefer to wait. Farmers the world over ...

A love letter to the Straßenbahn, Vienna’s Transport Museum offers insight into commuter habits. Vienna has an ongoing love affair with its Straßen...

The Vienna Theatre Project produces Rajiv Joseph’s off-Broadway hit. Once again proving their knack for bringing contemporary English-language thea...

I remember the first time I sat in an electric car. It was at a sustainability event in Grafenegg. Tesla had used a lotus chassis for ...

The American International School – Vienna has a long history of shaping tomorrow’s leaders, thinkers and artists. Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and...

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