Jazz Fest Wien 2012
Readers of this column will recognise that its very existence is a tribute to the vibrant Vienna jazz scene. While a national capital and historical metropole, Vienna is a comparatively small city of...
View ArticleA Tuscan Pilgrimage
Is Florence a real city? There are some who write it off as a living museum, trodden with tourists and impossible to appreciate. Don’t believe them! Whether a maiden visit or an annual pilgrimage, to...
View ArticleCity Limits – Vienna’s Vineyards
Boundaries can be a blessing in an all-encompassing wine industry. Knowing that you have a finite set of variables with which to do your best can often lead to creativity, resilience, and a personal...
View ArticleBook Review: John Leake’s Cold a Long Time
A Cover-Up in the Alps Three years ago, Vienna writer John Leake took a call from Bob and Lynda MacPherson. They told of the disappearance of their son, Duncan, and their frustrating, 20-year search to...
View ArticleThe King of the Instruments
I recently realised that the piano is my favourite instrument. The sound of its struck strings is simply gorgeous. And due to its inherent ability to house music that provides its own harmony, it...
View ArticleThe Rescuers: Heroism in Hard Times
The Rescuers is the latest film from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Michael King, which poignantly uncovers the largely unknown stories of 13 courageous diplomats, who, at tremendous personal cost,...
View ArticleInviting Secret Conversation
I am pretty good at being an outsider. If my life were a movie, I’d be pigeonholed into roles of perpetual foreigners begging those “Where are you from?” questions, answered with just a slight hint of...
View ArticleThe Journey is the Destination
I love old maps. I love old maps of Vienna. And thank goodness I also love psychogeography: the situationist’s deliberate art of getting lost as a way of opening your creative intuition – because in...
View ArticleA Global Recipe for Food on the Go
In Vienna, goulash, dumplings and strudel reveal a lot about the Viennese. As famed 19th-century French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin might have said: Now as ever, what you eat says a lot...
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