February 2016

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...

How our data, choices and personal lives are more valuable than ever Flip through the digital version ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed drama pits the power of investigative journalism against the catholic church’s child abuse cover-up   Drawing co...

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 ...

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...

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...

Open source genomics raise enormous challenges when protecting patient identity Over the past decade the genomic revolution has taken off in spec...

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 ...

René Clemencic and his Consort celebrate half a century of early music concerts at the Musikverein What do we know about European music in 1492, ...

A luscious but flawed exhibition bridging the Northern and Mediterranean streams of the Romantics at the Albertina Ninety years before the Secess...

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...

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...

The magic of a masked ball and cabaret at the Volkstheater’s Rote Bar Pushing through the double doors onto the balcony of the Volkstheater, I pu...

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 ...

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...

The countries of Europe are faced with tidal waves of newcomers, bringing with them different values, unfamiliar cultures, and untried skills that mus...

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...

Melodramatic yet engaging, this period piece is both a lesson in oft-overlooked history and a case study on domestic terrorism   The firs...

Middle-age melancholia takes center stage as Vienna’s English Theatre puts on Arnold Wesker’s ultimately optimistic play about life after 50. &nb...

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...

The adventures of a flatlander surviving in the Alps Despite the 6 a.m. train, we planned to hit the slopes the moment we arrived in Oberndorf in...

The Servitenviertel is almost hidden, with countless side streets and cobblestones walks inviting you to a leisurely stroll. It’s almost impossible to...

The Beaver Brewing Company brings craft beer and American classics to Alsergrund   From the outside, the Beaver Brewing Company is just a...

This celebrity chef from Israel has opened another of his Miznon civilized street food restaurants in Vienna   “It’s the entire world on ...

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....

Showing off the instrument’s versatility, this international festival offers a month of squeezebox fever.   Featuring both regional and i...

  Few questions are left unanswered in the pictograms and statistics collected in these two volumes.The second, on Vienna, was just published in...

An exhibition of iconic photographs from the revolutionary camera that made them possible – the legendary Leica The sailor kissing a girl in Time...

Nothing says “be mine” like giving your sweetheart seductive, sticky confections in a fancy box. Luckily for you, this city understands luxury candy b...

Vienna for Lovers: From the amorous to the apathetic – there is something for everyone this February 14th   Valentine’s Day stirs the rom...

Cares unravel in the pristine alpine stillness of Upper Austria’s Grünau im Almtal   Cascades of snowflakes thick as the Milky Way tumble...