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There’s increasing political talk about “sex workers”. Front-page articles deal with prostitution, sexual violence and even murder. But while listening to our politicians and reading the stories in our newspapers, ca...
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Design freaks like myself gathered at the opening of the fourth Blickfang, an international furniture fair in the Vienna MAK, in October. Food-Bowl by Pulpo Blickfang is a progressive platform for young intern...
PLACE
In Austria, you have lots of wintersport areas. There are a few nobel ski resorts but there is only one Kitzbuehel. Situated in the alpine mountains of the western province of Tyrol, Kitzbuehel is a stand-out place. I...
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Luxury and beauty shows are en vogue. There are the ones for “the bold and the beauty”, such as Luxury please in Vienna’s Hofburg Imperial Palace; and there are the ones for the “mainstream”, such as La Donna in Vienn...
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A handful of industrial Austrian players are trying to find new forms of art sponsoring to promote young and talented artists. And they seem to be truly innovative in doing so: A pilot project initiated by Artware, Ju...
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Vienna is a beautiful city. You may easily be captured by its charms. Besides gorgeous architecture the city offers numerous cultural events, ancient and modern art, excellent theatre performances, modern literature a...
PLACE
Getting bored by your daily shopping? Never looking forward to visiting your local supermarket? Getting depressed by all these grey, uninspired, one-size-fits-all buildings? Well, then you might wish to do your shoppi...
HAPPENING
After a few extremely hot and muggy weeks Vienna still won't cool down. Thought it's been raining all day Viennese jazz fans can feel the heat again tonight at the opening of the 16th edition of the legendary Vienna J...
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When Super Special Agent Uzgur, a dutiful civil servant whose ambitious goal in life is to fight against racism, sex and crime in Vienna's district of Ottakring and whose grim day-to-day adventures include broken coff...
PEOPLE
So you thought the Viennese might have had enough of celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday? Ha! Quite the contrary! The party will go on for a while. Whereas you can still enjoy the famous composer's cl...
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"Nice pots!" If you come to notice shoppers who seem utterly delighted at the sight of "pots" in the newly opened Europark shopping centre in the lovely city of Salzburg later this month, and if you simply can't find ...
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© Mozart 2006 January 2006. The atmosphere in the snow-covered city of Vienna is tense. While a court ruling forces Austria to return five paintings by Gustav Klimt to the legitimate heir of a Jewish family,...
