September 2016

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Metropole - September 1, 2016

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 tickets The concert season has finally reopened. From...

Cynthia Peck - September 1, 2016

Wine

Bacchus Meets Disney

For better or worse, the Langenlois Loisium is a theme park for the thirsty After driving up the hill through a seemingly endless colony of chic de...

Simon Ballam - September 1, 2016

Music

Ben Harper

The eclectic musician reunites with his backing band The Innocent Criminals for a new album A darling of the alternative crowd, socially conscious ...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

Music

Waves Vienna

The club culture festival presents emerging international artists Now going into its sixth iteration, the Waves Vienna Music Festival and Conferenc...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

Stage

Woody Sez

The internationally acclaimed hit folk musical comes to Vienna Widely regarded as one of the leading exponents of American folk music, Woody Guthri...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Stage

Spontaneous Combustions

At »MOMENT!« Fifth International Improv Festival, comedy and drama come at the speed of thought Promising to “put Vienna back on the international ...

Binu Starnegg - September 1, 2016

Art

Vienna Contemporary 2016

Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central Europe Showcasing both ne...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Art

Foreign Gods at Leopold Museum

The Leopold Museum unveils a fine collection of tribal art Serving as inspiration from the turn of the last century onward, African and Oceanic art...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Art

Metamorphoses on Canvas

Painting 2.0 tracks the art form and its adaptation to the information age At the exhibition Painting 2.0, the state of the art begins with its dem...

Nina Prader - September 1, 2016

Film

Musical Marco Polo

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma leads once distant cultures joyously in consort in The Music of Strangers As the screen goes black, the cacophony of instruments t...

Gregory Bondaruk - September 1, 2016

Film

Southside with You

Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, as told by Hollywood With the outgoing first couple’s allure still sky high, this retelling of the Obamas’ ...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

Film

Slash Film Festival

Straight from the lunatic fringe of cinema, 40 films in search of braaaaaiiiins Providing fresh meat for fans of unconventional and weird movies, t...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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 ...

Benjamin Wolf - September 1, 2016

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...

Michael Bernstein - September 1, 2016

News

Quotes, Stats & Numbers | Smart Urbanization

Here's an overview of stats and numbers from month's Metropole, on smart urbanization.

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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 roost It was 9:32 in the ...

Christian Cummins - September 1, 2016

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 bar Late summer may be the best season to enjoy Vienna: As the evenin...

Andreas Rainer - September 1, 2016

Film

The Light Between Oceans

The moral dilemmas of M.L. Stedman's best-selling novel brought vividly on screen Director Derek Cianfrance’s (The Place Beyond the Pines) exquisit...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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? ...

Jacob Lassar - September 1, 2016

Blog

Is Vienna Smart?

Define smart It’s hard to grumble in Vienna. Public transportation runs on time, a woman can safely walk home at night, the cycling paths make se...

Margaret Childs - September 1, 2016

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...

Margaret Childs - September 1, 2016

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 differently Half a century ago, Vienna wa...

Alexander Fanta - September 1, 2016

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...

Yaël Ossowski - September 1, 2016

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 ...

Alexander Fanta - September 1, 2016

Back to The Future

Thoughts from our expert on design, gadgets and joie de vivre When I think about the not-so-distant future, sure, I see food printers, hologram i...

Ali Rabbani - September 1, 2016

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, ...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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...

Margaret Childs - September 1, 2016

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 go Geraldine Fitzpatr...

Janima Nam - September 1, 2016

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 brilliantly...

Dardis McNamee - September 1, 2016

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 intelligence Entering our livi...

Elisabeth Kling - September 1, 2016

Grätzl

Oberdöbling | The Noble Nineteenth’s Bourgeois Ghetto

Vienna’s hilly north side may be cozy but not sleepy The 19th district, Döbling, is one of Vienna’s “noble” districts: along with Hietzing (13th...

Michael Bernstein - September 1, 2016

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...

Joseph Stiglitz - September 1, 2016

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...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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! Check us out on Faceboo...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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...

Miguel Roncero - September 1, 2016

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 ...

Benjamin Wolf - September 1, 2016

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...

The Editors - September 1, 2016

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...

Ali Rabbani - September 1, 2016

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...

Ross Ludlam - September 1, 2016

Wine

Take a Walk on the Wine Side

The Wiener Weinwandertag makes it easy to get to know Vienna’s vintners on their own turf If there is a day that sums up autumn in Vienna, the Wi...

Catherine M. Hooker - September 1, 2016

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...

Benjamin Wolf - September 1, 2016

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...

Benjamin Wolf - September 1, 2016

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...

Ali Rabbani - September 1, 2016

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...

Binu Starnegg - September 1, 2016