vienna

Vienna, Berlin, Budapest and Paris: blogging city rivers

Europe's city rivers are both the place to be in terms of a good old rave - take the A38 ship on the Danube to Bar 25 on the Spree - and also for a spot of nudity or artificial beach time in the summer. Blog snippets from four cafebabel.com local team bloggers, who pay tribute to their watery city icons

by cafebabel.com @ , English language version of cafebabel.com @ // 11/08/10 - 3 Comment - 4 Votes

identity, paris, austria, berlin, cities, society

Vienna dancing to a Latin rhythm

Between the 10th and 13th May Austria will host the 4th EU-Latin America Summit in Vienna. Civil society intends to use the opportunity to emphasise the fight against poverty and access to natural resources

by Alexandre Polack @ // 10/05/06

Vienna’s green wavelengths

The Prater park, the Vienna woods and the Lobau: Vienna is green no matter which way you look. Fifty percent of the Austrian capital is made up of green spaces and in 2010 the city received the accolade of having the best quality of living worldwide from the international Mercer study. It isn’t just in internationally orientated events in the city centre like Danube Day that we see Vienna riding a green wave. Instead it is also clear in the town’s most hidden corners: some city-dwellers grow cannabis quite legally, others opt for a car-free life, and others still go back to nature and live in caravan communities. Five European reporters got to the bottom of Vienna’s green lifestyle as part of cafebabel.com’s monthly editorial project Green Europe on the Ground (Image: (cc) M'sieur Rico/ Flickr)

• Read the special edition Vienna’s green wavelengths
• Cannabis legalisation: shopping for reality in Vienna
• Vienna and the lords of the Danube
• AKW Lobau: Vienna caravan communities away from it all

The Vienna-Zagreb axis

Why is Austria demanding EU accession for Croatia? And why is it set against that of Turkey?

by alexander dinhobl // 14/10/05

Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK

Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna

by jens wiesner // 25/04/08 - 1 Comment - 1 Vote

vienna, war, youth, middle east, art spiegelman, democratisation

Latin America is in fashion in Austria

In Vienna, the Latin Americans resident in the city continue with difficult everyday lives

by raquel ávila dosal // 05/06/06

British comic Sacha Baren Cohen's Brüno: 'the most famous Austrian since Hitler'

'Borat was so 2006' - in 2009 it is Brüno who is showing some skin on billboards across Europe. The latest creation from the English shock-comic is a gay Austrian fashion journalist. From 24 July, an alternative version screens in UK cinemas for teenage audiences. cafebabel.com’s hub in Vienna analyses the phenomenon

by julie demel @ // 21/07/09 - 2 Comment - 3 Votes

humour, satire, culture calendar, sacha baron cohen, cinema, culture