A celebration of sounds is taking place in Vienna’s cultural hub this summer. The capital’s MuseumsQuartier is hosting a breadth of events exploring sound, art and architecture in a summer-long festival “Summer of Sounds”. The event kicked off on June 5 with the opening of an exhibit at mumok “Josef Dabernig. Rock the Void”, plus […]
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Cultural centre TBA21 is combining food, dining, art, culture and music in a Winter Programme series at their Supper Club in Vienna. Artists, chefs, curators are combining their talents at twelve events taking place at the TBA21 Supper Club, hosted by Die Au cafe/restaurant. Events coming up include a culinary version of time-banking, the process […]
The Carnuntum Experience in Bruck an der Leitha is celebrating a fest – for 19 days food, wine and the region is being celebrated. The wine growing region is around 1000 hectares in size and between August 14th and September 1st there are 70 different events everything from White Wine Fashion, a party all in […]
Sky Austria setback in battle with the ORF
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Pay TV Sky Sport Austria is not entitled to payments from the ORF when the state TV uses its soccer coverage as clips in news reports, an expert report to Europe’s highest court says. The case is being widely watched across the world, where offshoots of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have bought up live rights […]
Scheiber throws in the towel
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Mario Scheiber has announced his resignation from professional skiing. The 29-year-old from East Tyrol – who looks back on doomed, injury-stricken years – said yesterday (Mon) that his right knee had failed to recover in the past weeks but got worse instead. Scheiber, who did not disclose his plans for the future, came fourth in […]
Snow depot saves “Swatch Snow Mobile”
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The annual “Swatch Snow Mobile” skidoo race has once again been saved by a snow depot in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. The mountain which is built of 15,000 cubic metres of tightly packed snow and currently sits in a car park in Hinterglemm, was revealed yesterday (Mon) in anticipation of the race which begins on 8 December. […]
InterNations
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“When I arrived in a city, I was feeling lost, and just wanted to meet other expats and discover the best places to go.” That was how former journalist Malte Zeeck used to feel whenever sent on a new assignment – and that was the motivation that led him comparatively recently to set up what […]
Vienna tops global congress ranking
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Vienna hosted more congresses than any other city in the world last year.The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) announced today (Fri) that 154 international summits took place in the Austrian capital in 2010. This figure helped the city to stay on top of the ICCAs global ranking. Vienna was tied for first place with […]
Artistic critics wanted
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We are expanding our coverage of arts, culture and lifestyle and are looking for reviewers and correspondents not just in Vienna but around the country interested in contributing articles in this area.Editor David Rogers said: “Austria is the cultural heartland of Europe – and it is only proper that the country’s cultural heritage is properly […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger has cancelled a trip to his homeland following the death of his father-in-law, it has been claimed.Austrian newspapers have it that the former governor of California decided to stay in the United States to support and console his wife Maria Shriver as her dad Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. passed away at the age […]