May 2016

Navigating your startup safely through Austria’s bureaucracy is tricky. Fortunately, a multitude of subsidies can give you a strong tailwind Bure...

We asked twelve Austrian founders to pick their local hero from the startup ecosystem Given how recent the startup scene is in Austria, there’s...

Vienna Independent Shorts celebrates stylish strokes of avant-garde cinema In this age of shortened attention spans, when smartphones are streami...

Austrian band contests and the next generation in pursuit of the big stage by Benjamin Kubaczek & Cynthia Peck   “Competitions are...

Austria’s international wine festival uncorked Imagine throngs of winemakers cramped shoulder to shoulder, vying for the attention of thirsty dri...

For indoors and out, Austrian companies have come up with simple solutions for our everyday needs, at home and on the move With technology advanc...

Maggie Smith brings Alan Bennett’s touching memoir to life Describing itself as a “mostly true” story (more on that later), The Lady in the Van d...

The Viennese can be a tad formal at times: strings of titles, hand kissing, fancy dress.  But when you’ve had the Hofburg down the street for some 750...

How yesterday’s industrial graveyards are turning into today’s hotbeds of innovation Akron and Albany, Dresden and Eindhoven, Oulo and Portland –...

Austria often looks to America’s can-do approach to business, but can it foster its own forward-­leaning ­climate while still preserving its heritage?...

Startups can’t do it on their own. We met some of the people who give Austrian entrepreneurs the support they need, through technical know-how, state ...

We need to stop lionizing  start-up businesses simply because we like rooting for the underdog; the Davids over the Goliaths.  Being an entrepreneu...

The Wiener Festwochen bring the bleeding edge in theater by Michael Bernstein & Dardis McNamee   Vienna is a city of theaters – th...

Shattering upheavals have left Central and Eastern Europe longing for calm, but a disruptive new generation is looking towards innovation There h...

The U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Alexa Wesner has been supporting the Austrian startup community since she took office in 2013. Her commitment stems fr...

The prominent Pratersauna nightclub reopens after renovation The rumor mill was abuzz: Last month, Martin Ho, the Dots Group entrepreneur, se...

Once a Cold War no-man’s-land, the Thayatal national park is now a restored oasis of calm and natural beauty Sitting atop a mossy bluff overlooki...

We met British comedian Patrick Lamb at vrei, a virtual reality lounge in the 7th to talk about comedy, the Viennese and his hood in Hernals “Nop...

At the Kunsthalle, The Promise of Total Automation imagines the shape of things to come An intriguing attempt to parse the possible futures heade...

Expert Jane Kallir puts Egon Schiele’s works under the microscope There’s nothing like a good art forgery scandal to get the blood flowing: beaut...

Austria’s refugee crisis has not only polarized the political landscape,  it has split the country’s ruling party right down the middle As every seas...

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This year’s Europop fiesta has the The Good, The Bad, The Bizarre… and The Australians Best known as the launch pad of ABBA, the European Broadca...

The popular urban happening celebrates a decade on Vienna’s inner-city waterway Originally set in motion by Martin Staudinger in 2007, the free f...

In the Austrian success story of gravitational waves, detecting something tiny can be a huge leap forward On February 11, 2016, the last of Alber...

We were fighting an uphill battle. No one was being paid and there was a constant state of upbeat panic. When we founded Metropole, it seemed like the...

With each attempt to strong-arm the media, Turkish President Erdogan only confirms his vulnerability Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ha...

The Filmmuseum presents the heady days before censorship Tinseltown ran wild for a few short years between  the advent of “talkies” and the imple...

Jodie Foster directs this fairy tale for the Great Recession Unfolding in real time, Money Monster features George Clooney as Lee Gates, a smug, ...

The communications graduate ensures that Hidden Kitchen is far from a secret In the highly competitive world of Viennese lunch cantines, Hidden K...

The wacky restaurant Rollercoaster throws your food for a loop There’s a sudden silence hanging above the train for a few brief moments as passenger...

Abandoned offices and storefronts in Vienna provide affordable temporary space for creative urban innovation Without human activity a city’s surf...