A man with his mind on mountains and museums
July 27, 2015
Reinhold Messner, the first man to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, is, as you’d expect, a man who thinks a lot about mountains and climbing them.
Reinhold Messner, the first man to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, is, as you’d expect, a man who thinks a lot about mountains and climbing them.
Vienna, a frequent winner of livability awards and home to a more extensive collection of public toilets than anywhere else, is starting a multi-year multi-million
This cartoonish owl of wisdom welcomes visitors to the main library of the Technical University of Vienna. The sculpture is by Bruno Weber, who was
The Salzburg Festival, one of the world’s premiere performing arts celebrations, opened its 95th season yesterday with a with a schedule of 188 performances, down from 270 last year, and a 6% budget cut.
Neat trick! We didn’t get to visit the store, which was closed, but we did stop to admire the sign.
Crowds at Donauinselfest 2014 listening to Kung Fu Kitty Photo: Manfred Fraser / Wikimedia Vienna’s Donauinselfest is Europe’s biggest free outdoor music festival,
The green man who welcomes you to cross the street in most of the world has become more diverse in Austria, with Vienna’s installation of
With a European immigration crisis boiling up in many forms these days, focusing on mass migration by boat across the Mediterranean, there’s a different story playing out in Vienna, where a chic hotel is serving as a place for immigrants who came as asylum seekers.
This week’s puzzle started with a very puzzling picture—so puzzling it needed a second shot to clarify that it was in a tunnel. Even so, Jonathan L was sharp enough to jump to a correct conclusion, which he hinted to the crowd in a comment…
I’m sure there must be some place without birds, but I haven’t been there. And everywhere I have been, the birds have caught my attention….
Reinhold Messner, the first man to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, is, as you’d expect, a man who thinks a lot about mountains and climbing them.
Vienna, a frequent winner of livability awards and home to a more extensive collection of public toilets than anywhere else,
This cartoonish owl of wisdom welcomes visitors to the main library of the Technical University of Vienna. The sculpture is
The Salzburg Festival, one of the world’s premiere performing arts celebrations, opened its 95th season yesterday with a with a schedule of 188 performances, down from 270 last year, and a 6% budget cut.
Neat trick! We didn’t get to visit the store, which was closed, but we did stop to admire the sign.
Crowds at Donauinselfest 2014 listening to Kung Fu Kitty Photo: Manfred Fraser / Wikimedia Vienna’s Donauinselfest is Europe’s
The green man who welcomes you to cross the street in most of the world has become more diverse in
With a European immigration crisis boiling up in many forms these days, focusing on mass migration by boat across the Mediterranean, there’s a different story playing out in Vienna, where a chic hotel is serving as a place for immigrants who came as asylum seekers.
This week’s puzzle started with a very puzzling picture—so puzzling it needed a second shot to clarify that it was in a tunnel. Even so, Jonathan L was sharp enough to jump to a correct conclusion, which he hinted to the crowd in a comment…
I’m sure there must be some place without birds, but I haven’t been there. And everywhere I have been, the birds have caught my attention….