February 2016
Precious Privacy: How our data, choices and personal lives are more valuable than ever
February 2016
How to…be a Data-Savvy Spy
Fear of Big-Data snoops sifting through your chat history, photo streams, and following your private trips across town? Greta Garbo understood about privacy: She didn’t want to “be” alone, as the Hollywood myth-makers would have it. “I want to be left alone,” she insisted – a request that is becoming harder and harder to satisfy in these […]
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February 2016
Letters to the Editor – February
To All Our Readers:
Thank you so very much for your support and comments over our social media channels and in person for our first three issues! MET...
February 2016
On Stage: The Invisible Hand
A darkly relevant play about a clash of disparate cultures with more in common than first meets the eye. With Vienna in a mood of high ...
Cover Stories
Cover Story: Private Lives
From the internet to the bedroom, Austrians care about – and protect – the personal sphere. It’s a cultural thing.On a cold, grey day in January...
Business & Career
Business & Career: The Oil of the 21st Century
It took four years for the EU’s twenty-eight member states to pass the new law on data protection. Now companies are bracing themselves for high stake...
February 2016
On Screen: Spotlight
Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed drama pits the power of investigative journalism against the catholic church’s child abuse cover-up Drawing co...
February 2016
The Last Word: Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque
We asked the U.K. Ambassador to Austria, Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque, to tell us what differences she sees between British and Austrian views on ...
February 2016
Editorial: Suspending Schengen and Migration to Europe
Closing Europe’s borders is not the solution to the refugee crisis, but it might help open a real discussion about it.by Dardis McNamee and Greg...
February 2016
On Screen: Colonia
Pinochet’s thugs are the least of Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl’s problems as they relive the bad old days of the 1973 coup in Chile Par...
February 2016
Science & Technology: Protecting Genetic Privacy
Open source genomics raise enormous challenges when protecting patient identityOver the past decade the genomic revolution has taken off in spec...
Books
Book Review: “A Poem on Every Page” – Joseph Roth’s Hotel Years
A master of the feuilleton, the author’s virtuosity is on full display on every page of this collection of newspaper essays about people and politics ...
February 2016
Concert: Gambling on a Gothic Master
René Clemencic and his Consort celebrate half a century of early music concerts at the MusikvereinWhat do we know about European music in 1492, ...
Art
On Display: Welten der Romantik
A luscious but flawed exhibition bridging the Northern and Mediterranean streams of the Romantics at the AlbertinaNinety years before the Secess...
February 2016
On the Vine: Wagram / Kamptal
ON THE VINE guides you through our wine regions, wines and some of the growers behind them. This month we look at the Wagram region. Th...
February 2016
Profiles: My Business, Not Yours
It’s no secret that Austria values its privacy. We spoke to several people for whom the defense of privacy has become a way of life. And luckily for ...
February 2016
Hotel Orient | Vienna’s No Tell Hotel
Walking downhill from the Freyung, the elegant Jugend-stil entrance of the Hotel Orient at the bottom of the Tiefer Graben appears out of the shadow...
February 2016
Scenes of Vienna: Time Machine
The magic of a masked ball and cabaret at the Volkstheater’s Rote BarPushing through the double doors onto the balcony of the Volkstheater, I pu...
February 2016
On Screen: Hail, Caesar!
The Coen Brothers write a love letter to the golden age of Hollywood Set in the 1950s, the days of omnipotent studios, red scares and a...
February 2016
International: The Real Challenge
The countries of Europe are faced with tidal waves of newcomers, bringing with them different values, unfamiliar cultures, and untried skills that mus...
Blog
Editor’s Letter – February
Trust me, I know all about you.When talking about data privacy it’s easy to get philosophical. As we researched this issue, we found ourselves d...
February 2016
On Screen: Suffragette
Melodramatic yet engaging, this period piece is both a lesson in oft-overlooked history and a case study on domestic terrorism The firs...
February 2016
On Stage: Groupie
Middle-age melancholia takes center stage as Vienna’s English Theatre puts on Arnold Wesker’s ultimately optimistic play about life after 50.&nb...
February 2016
Op-Ed: The Danger of a Weak Europe
How Europe’s economic and demogrphic choices made in 2016 will impact the economies of Europe and the U.S.In 1973, US Secretary of State Henry K...
February 2016
Scenes of Vienna: A Beginner’s Tale
The adventures of a flatlander surviving in the AlpsDespite the 6 a.m. train, we planned to hit the slopes the moment we arrived in Oberndorf in...
February 2016
Servitenviertel | Saints and Sinners in the Neighborhood
The Servitenviertel is almost hidden, with countless side streets and cobblestones walks inviting you to a leisurely stroll. It’s almost impossible to...
February 2016
On the Menu: From Kalamazoo to you
The Beaver Brewing Company brings craft beer and American classics to Alsergrund From the outside, the Beaver Brewing Company is just a...
February 2016
Be My Guest: Chef Eyal Shani
This celebrity chef from Israel has opened another of his Miznon civilized street food restaurants in Vienna “It’s the entire world on ...
Books
Book Review: Theater of Modernity
With a fascinating cast of characters, Philipp Blom’s engaging history of the inter-war years stages the glories and agonies of these troubled times....
February 2016
Vienna Accordion Festival
Showing off the instrument’s versatility, this international festival offers a month of squeezebox fever. Featuring both regional and i...
Books
Book Review: Everything Austrian, Statistically and Graphically
Few questions are left unanswered in the pictograms and statistics collected in these two volumes.The second, on Vienna, was just published in...
Art
On Display: Picturing the 20th Century
An exhibition of iconic photographs from the revolutionary camera that made them possible – the legendary LeicaThe sailor kissing a girl in Time...
Explore Vienna
My Yummy Valentine | Best Candy Gifts in Vienna
Nothing says “be mine” like giving your sweetheart seductive, sticky confections in a fancy box. Luckily for you, this city understands luxury candy b...
Explore Vienna
Viennese Valentine’s Day Tips
Vienna for Lovers: From the amorous to the apathetic – there is something for everyone this February 14th Valentine’s Day stirs the rom...
February 2016
On the Road: Far from the Prying Crowds
Cares unravel in the pristine alpine stillness of Upper Austria’s Grünau im Almtal Cascades of snowflakes thick as the Milky Way tumble...
