September 2016
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Music
Vienna’s Classical Music | Tonight’s the Night
An intro to subscriptions for the upcoming music season, or how to remember where you put the ticketsThe concert season has finally reopened. From...
Wine
Bacchus Meets Disney
For better or worse, the Langenlois Loisium is a theme park for the thirstyAfter driving up the hill through a seemingly endless colony of chic de...
Music
Ben Harper
The eclectic musician reunites with his backing band The Innocent Criminals for a new albumA darling of the alternative crowd, socially conscious ...
Music
Waves Vienna
The club culture festival presents emerging international artistsNow going into its sixth iteration, the Waves Vienna Music Festival and Conferenc...
Stage
Spontaneous Combustions
At »MOMENT!« Fifth International Improv Festival, comedy and drama come at the speed of thoughtPromising to “put Vienna back on the international ...
Art
Vienna Contemporary 2016
Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central EuropeShowcasing both ne...
Art
Foreign Gods at Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum unveils a fine collection of tribal artServing as inspiration from the turn of the last century onward, African and Oceanic art...
Art
Metamorphoses on Canvas
Painting 2.0 tracks the art form and its adaptation to the information ageAt the exhibition Painting 2.0, the state of the art begins with its dem...
Film
Musical Marco Polo
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma leads once distant cultures joyously in consort in The Music of StrangersAs the screen goes black, the cacophony of instruments t...
Film
Southside with You
Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, as told by HollywoodWith the outgoing first couple’s allure still sky high, this retelling of the Obamas’ ...
Film
Slash Film Festival
Straight from the lunatic fringe of cinema, 40 films in search of braaaaaiiiinsProviding fresh meat for fans of unconventional and weird movies, t...
International
The State of the Union – Post-Brexit Europe
The Brexit vote has shaken the Europe’s political foundations. Will the project begin to unravel, or is this a new start for the Continent?They ...
Business & Career
The Cooperative City
Smart cities need smart citizens. A growing movement of initiatives and startups, harnessing social media and using top-notch technology, aims to give...
News
Quotes, Stats & Numbers | Smart Urbanization
Here's an overview of stats and numbers from month's Metropole, on smart urbanization.
Out of Town
Tyrol’s Alpine Playground
Our fearless adventurer Christian Cummins is tempted out of his comfort zone at Area 47, where your inner child rules the roostIt was 9:32 in the ...
Nightlife
Toys in the Attic – 25hours Hotel’s Rooftop Bar
Savor the last days of summer on the terrace of the 25hours Hotel's Dachboden barLate summer may be the best season to enjoy Vienna: As the evenin...
Film
The Light Between Oceans
The moral dilemmas of M.L. Stedman's best-selling novel brought vividly on screenDirector Derek Cianfrance’s (The Place Beyond the Pines) exquisit...
2016 – An Urban Odyssey
Science fiction meets wearable aesthetics at Vienna’s tallest skyscraper. Futurist colors and natural fabrics combine in a marriage of utility and bea...
Cover Stories
Smart City Vienna
From San Diego to Copenhagen, from Vienna to Singapore, everybody wants to become a smart city. But how do you upgrade the world's most livable city?
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Blog
Is Vienna Smart?
Define smartIt’s hard to grumble in Vienna. Public transportation runs on time, a woman can safely walk home at night, the cycling paths make se...
Sport
Champagne and Ponies
Spectators visit the Austrian Polo Open to witness the breakneck game and get a glimpse of the fanciful hats that make up the sport’s international st...
City Life
Shaking up the Grätzl
Gracious old Vienna can be set in its ways. But a few entrepreneurs and activists are trying to do things differentlyHalf a century ago, Vienna wa...
Books
Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?
Smart cities claim to improve the lives, productivity and eco-balance of their citizens. A new collection of essays questions whether the vision lives...
Recipes
SCA33’s Sophie Halder Shares Her Ragù Recipe
Organic community building, one platter at a time“My concept is simply back to basics” says Sophie Halder, chef and manager of the new restaurant ...
Back to The Future
Thoughts from our expert on design, gadgets and joie de vivreWhen I think about the not-so-distant future, sure, I see food printers, hologram i...
Blog
A Day in Your Smarter Life
07:00
In the morning you wake up to a warm sunrise mood emanating from your Philips Hue system. It connects wireless lighting throughout your house, ...
People
Greentech Guru & First Lady
We met Eveline Steinberger-Kern, former executive at Verbund and Siemens, now founder of a green energy investment company – oh, and wife of the Aus...
People
Smart Minds Think Alike
How smart is Vienna? Four pioneers of building a smart city share a sense of how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to goGeraldine Fitzpatr...
Opinion
Once More, with Feeling
With contributions pouring in, Alexander Van der Bellen is out to win the Hofburg – again – and help set the tone for Europe’s future
On a brilliantl...
Grätzl
Oberdöbling | The Noble Nineteenth’s Bourgeois Ghetto
Vienna’s hilly north side may be cozy but not sleepyThe 19th district, Döbling, is one of Vienna’s “noble” districts: along with Hietzing (13th...
Science & Technology
Alexa, Can You Hear Me?
The first home automation hub, Amazon Echo raises lots of questions about how much we want to depend on artificial intelligenceEntering our livi...
Opinion
Opinion | Globalization and its new Discontents
If globalization increases overall well-being, why have so many people become so hostile?Fifteen years ago, in Globalization and its Discontents...
Blog
Designing Success
It will be easy for archaeologists of the future to work out what matters to us today.
The Egyptians honored the dead with their pyramids, the Romans...
Blog
From our Readers | Jul./Aug. 2016
We’ve been getting great feedback from our readers over social media. Thanks very much for your thoughts, ideas and insights!
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Restaurants
Tapas a L’Espagnole
When going for Tapas, do as the Spaniards do
In Spain, tapas is a way of life. More than just finger food, these small delicacies served with wine or...
Science & Technology
Taking the Tube – Hyperloop
Trips from Vienna to Bratislava are routine. But if the Hyperloop project has its way, they may soon become the most exciting commute on the planet
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Blog
A Letter from Renate Brauner
For years Renate Brauner has been a key player in the planning and follow-through on Vienna’s Smart City initiative.
She wrote you a letter about how...
Be Smart About Town
A smartphone can be anything from a useful tool to a constant nag. Just don’t gawk at the screen while crossing the Gürtel and it can do much to imp...
People
Creatives: The Messenger
Jean-Claude Mpassy: The creator of the fashion website “New Kiss on the Blog” hails from Berlin and has chosen Vienna because he sees it as the city o...
Wine
Take a Walk on the Wine Side
The Wiener Weinwandertag makes it easy to get to know Vienna’s vintners on their own turfIf there is a day that sums up autumn in Vienna, the Wi...
Opinion
Smooth Sailing
The Olympics in Rio didn’t provide Austrians with all that much cause for cheer. While it rains medals on the self-dubbed “sports nation” every winter...
Books
Boundless Wanderlust
In seeing the world in all its delicate beauty and overwhelming roughness, Christoph Ransmayr’s Atlas of an Anxious Man finds a language for mapping t...
Opinion
From Rags to Tovariches
Amid all the EU’s troubles over refugees, Schengen and the common currency, it’s easy to forget that in one regard, the Union has been extremely succe...
Local Finds
Everyday Life Just got Smarter
Find more time for the important things in life with a little help from our friends from the world of wearables, e-mobility, virtual reality and the i...
