Tag:January 2018
Wine
Buying Old Wines can be Affordable, but Only When you Have Good Advice
The unique qualities of older vintages aren’t apparent, so let an expert’s insight guide you.Old wines hold a certain my...
Want to add a Vintage Touch to Your Home? Check out These Local Finds!
For this issue, we chose two shops that will give your home some nostalgic air, and if you haven’t settled yet, there’s a new place called Oli...
Local Finds
Feel Like a kid Again with These Brands to Know for December 2017
Our memories are sugarcoated. The games we played, the clothes we wore, how we got from point A to B make us feel like a kid again....
Sport
Yoga in Vienna Could Be Just the Thing to Cure Your Winter Blues
Yoga in Vienna is on the rise and could just cure your winter blues.Every day, the mat meets you where you are. Yester...
Out of Town
When Traveling with Kids, Kinderhotels Are the Key to Relaxing on Vacation
Kinderhotels are the vacation secret your kids want you to know.Let’s play a game. It’s a simple one, not difficult at...
Recipes
Joseph Brot is Bringing the Bagel Back to its Hometown
Producing handmade organically sourced bagels the traditional way is a labor of love: It takes three days just to make the dough and another fou...
Restaurants
Don’t Let the Name Spelunke Fool You | Where Shabby, Chic and Fancy Meet for Dinner
Spelunke does dark and swanky for trendy businesspeopleIn German, a Spelunke is a dark and shabby bar, often hidden in a...
Books
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a Sparse but Stirring Narrative of Alpine Living
Andreas Egger lives a life bordering on the vegetative, both figuratively and literally: His dwelling is high above the valley, at the tree ...
Books
Marjorie Perloff Looks Back at Austrian Literature’s Nostalgia for the Imperial Past
The 1920s in Vienna was a time of despair and confusion in a world of lost empire, political upheaval and the trauma of war....
Film
Loving Vincent Will Start Showing at the Votiv Kino December 29th
Loving Vincent recreates van Gogh’s artwork in animated oil paintingsIf painters express themselves through their art, biograp...
Film
Here’s our Guide to Vienna’s Vintage Movie Theatres
Vienna’s vintage movie theatres endure and thrive with niche programming.Cinema is a young medium, around for just ove...
Stage
Wait Until Dark | Vienna’s English Theatre Revives the 1960s Thriller
Home invasions and darkness are two of our most primal fears – and excellent ingredients for a great thriller, as Frederick Knott succinctly p...
Stage
Margaret Cho is Coming to Vienna Again with a New Tour After Personal Turmoil
Blunt and fearless, Margaret Cho is a real groundbreaker in her field of comedy, getting a rise from audiences since exploding on stage in the...
Stage
Vienna’s Open House Theatre Performs the Experimental White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Nassim Soleimanpour has traveled the world without leaving his native Iran. Vienna’s Spektakel theater reserved a first row seat for the playw...
Art
The Westlicht Explores Polaroids in What Might Be Their Final Exhibit
Predating Instagram by several decades, Polaroid’s instant photographs were a hit from the mid-20th century up to the digital revolution, fitt...
Art
The University of Applied Arts Celebrates its 150th Birthday
A spawning ground for many venerable creators, the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) – or Angewandte for short – i...
Art
In Heimat:Machen, the Volkskundemuseum Confronts its own Role in Shaping National Identity
The past is only foreign if you deny its powerful impact on the presentThanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...
Music
The new Jazz Star Morgan James is Coming to Vienna
The rising diva graces the Vienna jazz firmamentA new star on the jazz-horizon, Morgan James – who cut her teeth with co...
Music
The Young Alma Mahler Kammerorchester is Making Their Debut in Vienna
Founded this year by young professional musicians from all over Europe, the Alma Mahler Kammerorchester celebrates music without borders while...
Music
Harri Stojka is Celebrating his 60th Birthday and Isn’t Slowing Down Anytime Soon
Viennese music legend Harri Stojka looks ahead at 60There’s very little certainty in the life and career of an artist. M...
Grätzl
Bermudadreieck | History and Hard Drinking
Ominously named after the mysterious navigational hazard that allegedly claims countless vessels in the Caribbean, Vienna’s Bermudadreieck (Be...
Special Report
From Neni to Secret Vienna: Vienna’s Jewish Community is Diverse, Growing and Thriving
Our community is small, but thriving. Ever more diverse, Vienna's Jews are making waves on every levelBy Sara Friedman & B...
Business & Career
Advertorial | MyHive – What if you Could Take Care of all Your Errands While at the Office?
Steel, glass, concrete and marble.The design of most modern office buildings – while elegant and sophisticated – can feel cold and impersonal. R...
Science & Technology
The Science is in and Nostalgia is Actually Good for You
Science is coming to grips with a complex emotion that was once dismissed as sentimental or downright pathological.It wa...
How To
How to Learn to Dance in Vienna
This year, the dance floor can be yours. With these tips, you’ll have all the moves to wow the ball season crowd.
Cover Stories
The Nostalgia Trap: How There has Never Been Just one ‘old Vienna’
In every age, the pressures of change in Vienna have stirred a longing for better times gone by, often more imagined than real, but nonetheless ...
News
What Austrian Media Wrote About in November 2017
A quick-and-dirty synopsis of last month’s headlines in ViennaCoalition Talks Proceed, Parliament AssemblesSeb...
Blog
From our Readers | December/January 2017
Many thanks for your thoughts, ideas and insights! If you have something to say about Vienna or a story you read here, tell us all about it. Sen...
Nightlife
Pleased as Punch
‘tis the season to drink outdoors at Vienna’s ChristkindlmärkteTraditions can be tricky; not everything our ancestors di...
