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n o v e m b e r 23 | 9. - 15.
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"Heya Girls!"
In some places, Christmas is already in full swing! However, between gleeful mulled-wine dates and cheery cookie-baking endeavours, you realise one thing above all: the most stressful time of the year has begun! How convenient that there are good fairies like Tina Nekvinda-Ohneberg at times like these. In the 7th district, she has created a place where you can regenerate before the stressful festive season like in a miracle capsule. At Ukiyo (Japanese for: forget your everyday problems), it works like this: You go in – and only come out again when you feel like you're in wellbeing heaven. Airy fitness rooms invite you to do Pilates and yoga to release your stress. Once your body is in the flow, a relaxing massage is just what you need. There is a choice of everything that’s good for you, from sports massages to body shaping treatments. Once relaxed, you head back up to the ground floor, where the manicure bar with vegan nail polish awaits. You can also find pretty things, clothes, jewellery and home décor items in the in-house shop. And best of all: contrary to expetations, your wallet will only shrink minimally here, as Tina advocates that everyone should be able to afford feel-good moments. How likeable!
Wishing you an inspired week,
Your CitySpotterGirl
Ukiyo, Breite Gasse 7, 1070 Vienna. Mon-Fri 9:00 to 19:00, Sat until 16:00. Web
Photo: 12-34 Media
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| THURSDAY |
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| CupCakes Wien |
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Afterwork im Winterwonderland
It's quite something when the whole city is transformed into a gourmet paradise during the Advent season and you can snack your way from one stall to the next with Christmas tunes. A new stop on the track is “Afterwork im Winterwonderland” in the ceramic palm tree-lined Ludo-Hartmann-Hof. With a subtle Caribbean flair, CupCakes Wien serves sweet gingerbread and nougat-orange sins here, while office fugitives can toast to the end of the working day with homemade punch, mulled wine and organic cider. Afterworking could hardly be more delicious!
Ludo-Hartmann-Hof, Albertgasse 13-17, 1080 Vienna. 9.11.-21.12. each Thursday 17:00 to 22:00. Web |
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H&M x Rabanne
Ladies, it's shopping alert level dark red! Today you have to get up early if you don't want to camp out in front of H&M, because the brand-new collection with the Rabanne fashion house will be launched! Inspired by Paco Rabanne's space-age modernism and loud maximalism, designer Julien Dossena has created divine “disc-o-rama” variations: Mirrored sequin dresses, metallic mesh two-pieces and iconic chain shirts lend instant dance floor vibes. And thanks to sparkling home accessories such as metallic sequin curtains, you can style that right in your own four walls!
H&M, Mariahilferstraße 47, 1070 Vienna & Spiegelgasse 1, 1010 Vienna. From 9 November 9:30 to 20:00. Web |
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| …reading |
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Buch Wien: Jo Nesbo
The Vienna Book Fair is in full swing and many book presentations are scattered throughout the city! Today, for example, crime novel writer Jo Nesbo will be talking about his new book “Nachthaus”, in which a teenager disappears from a small Norwegian town. His best friend is said to have killed him and even he slowly begins to doubt what happened that night. Plus, historian Mirjam Zadoff gives Holocaust survivors a voice with a reading from her book “Gewalt und Gedächtnis. Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert”, and Milo Rau reflects on our future in his essay. Captivating!
Akademischen Gymnasiums, Beethovenplatz 1, 1010 Vienna. 9 November 19:00. Day ticket 20 €. Web |
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| FRIDAY |
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| …gifted |
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| Marion Payr |
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Free Plants at Salon Verde
Super-stylish green oases are currently sprouting up like wildfire in our urban jungle. This includes Salon Verde, which is delighting plant lovers with its third branch on Landstraße Hauptstraße from today. To celebrate today's opening, Salon Verde will be demonstrating in the prettiest way just how beautiful the flowering potpourri is that you can get hold of here: From 14:00 to 16:00, Salon Verde is giving away a total of 1,000 plants at its three branches in the Nordbahnviertel, Naschmarkt and Rochusmarkt! And you can snatch a matching flower pot for -10% :-)
Salon Verde, several branch stores. 10 November 14:00 to 16:00. Web |
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Salon Privé
Could be a nice Friday! Inspired by Art Nouveau salons, the Hernalser Loft-Atelier turns into a cabinet of pretty wonders for three days: for example, you can slip into extravagant latex designs by epic couture, make-up artist Ken Krueger will create the perfect autumn look and there will be headpieces by Kabllo for the fashionable icing on the cake. Also beautiful for the home: the Senegalese basketry by Dorothee Redelsteiner Design. And the welcome drink from Belsazar is best savoured on the top floor, spiced up with a panoramic view of the whole of Vienna!
Hernalser Loft-Atelier, Rötzergasse 8, 1170 Vienna. 10-12 November 16:00 to 20:00. Web |
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| …concert |
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| Lukas Bezila |
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Crossing Strings
It goes without saying that you have to work together when you perform as a musical duo. However, Carina Maria Linder and Markus Schlesinger from “Crossing Strings” take the term “duo” to a whole new level: in a mix of self-arranged jazzy-pop evergreens, the classical guitar player and the fingerstyle guitarist seem to merge with the finest plucked sounds. This becomes particularly clear when both play intertwined on one and the same guitar. Hard to imagine? Here's the proof – or you could simply come see for yourself live tonight!
Sargfabrik, Goldschlagstraße 169, 1140 Vienna. 10 November 19:30. 22 €. Web |
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| SATURDAY |
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| ...shopping |
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| kamen |
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SYLGV Contemporary Design Shop
Get your money, get set, shop away! The “Ausstellungsraum” gallery is once again transformed into a contemporary design shop. With the motto #femaleentrepreneur, labels run by women from our favourite city come together here to enchant us with the best of fashion and art. The “Support your local girl gang” includes Kamen with autumnal-cosy fashion pieces, Biester Hutmoden with extravagant headgear, understated beauties from amateur fashion and embroidered statement earrings made from sustainable yarn by Birgit Wimmer Jewellery. Today’s the last day!
Galerie Ausstellungsraum, Gumpendorferstraße 23, 1060 Vienna. 9-12 November. Web |
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| …openhouse |
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| Luise Reichert |
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Creative Cluster
The location is really unusual! Art and culture are produced in the Creative Cluster in Margareten – in a former school. Artists, workshops, a DJ school and dance collectives have found a home on 3,600 square metres, including classes, a gym and showers. The Cluster is now opening its doors for 3 days and 140 creative people are giving an insight into their diverse work. For example, you can see how pipes are turned into designer furniture, a robot drawing performance creates interaction between machine, artist and audience and you can learn how to DJ at Turntablista!
Creative Cluster, Viktor-Christ-Straße 10, 1050 Vienna. 10-11.11. Fri 15:00 to 21:00, Sa from 13:00. Web |
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| …vernissage |
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| Seguso |
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Venice in the Serviten quarter
Probably nowhere else in the world is glass art as beautiful, as colourful and as fine as on Murano! Glass has been produced on the Venetian island for 800 years. The name of the Seguso family is inextricably linked to this. In the 20th century, Archimede Seguso led the art of glassmaking to its finest hour, because no one could create marvellous works of art from sand and fire like the maestro dei Maestri. A selection of his glass marvels can now be admired in six stores in the Serviten quarter (such as Fiandre, La Pasteria and Oppel Optik). And the magnificent chandeliers will light up the König shop!
Servitengasse, 1090 Vienna. Vernissage 11 November from 17:00. Free entry. Web |
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| SUNDAY |
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| ...photo |
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| Seiberl Stark |
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Photo + Adventure Fair
Now it clicks! Of course, at the largest travel and photography fair in the German-speaking world, you could gather information about extreme tours and photography in general. But in the fair overload (over 150 exhibitors) it's definitely about picking out the cherries! So off you go to the numerous photo exhibitions of international star clickers, who even hold workshops and lectures. Bernhard Wolf gives tips for the Nikon Z. Robert Pichler puts models in the right light at the flash-up workshop and Cliff Kapatais shows how to appeal to all the senses with food photography. Top programme!
Eventpyramide, Parkallee 2, 2334 Vösendorf. 11 + 12 November 9:00 to 17:00. 18 €/ day. Web |
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| …remembering |
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The Jewish Margareten
85 years ago, on the night of 9 to 10 November, the November pogroms took place throughout the Third Reich – which constituted a paradigm shift in the persecution of Jews. Margareten also used to have a small, fine Jewish community. The visible symbol of this community, the synagogue in Siebenbrunnengasse, was destroyed on this night of horror. Today, the victims are remembered and the reading room organises one of its “kult.touren” free of charge, which sheds light on the former Jewish life in Margareten and the circumstances of Pogrom Night.
Meeting point: Floriani Kirche, Wiedner Hauptstraße 99, 1050 Vienna. 12 November 11:00. Please register. Web |
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| TUESDAY |
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| ...gourmet |
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Marriott Hotel: “Turkey to go“
Time to serve up! US-style. Because if you want to have Thanksgiving like in a film this year instead of harvest festivals, you don't have to do much. With “Turkey to go”, the Marriott Hotel offers the delicious festive dish simply as take-away. The turkey, freshly imported from Carinthia, can be pre-ordered for 4-6 people as a “Classic” or “Brown Sugar Glazed” dish and accompanied by sweet potato puree, glazed chestnuts, bacon and cabbage sprouts or chutney and filled with chestnut-cranberry. They also deliver – so all you have to do is serve it ready to eat. Pretty practical!
Order by phone/email. 1 November-31 December at least 5 days in advance. From 155 €. Web |
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| Nadine-Melanie Hack |
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Natural.Born.Medea
Let's get crazy! The Bernhard Ensemble's revolutionaries are currently performing their latest hard-core play “Natural.Born.Medea”. It’s a loopy combination of Franz Grillparzer's ancient tragedy “Medea” and Oliver Stone's film “Natural Born Killers”, in which Medea, abused by her father, falls in love with the orphan food delivery man Jason. Frustrated by the world, they decide to take bloody revenge on society together and stage themselves on social networks. Violence, anger and despair dominate the play, but there’s some humour popping up every once and again ;-)
Off Theater, Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Vienna. 14 November 19:30. 25 €. Web |
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| WEDNESDAY |
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| ...musically |
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Dalida
Paroles, Paroles ... Darla dirladada ... What catchy tunes! One of the reasons why Dalida's career lasted several decades and why she became a disco queen in the 70s. But she also had a lot to offer in terms of acting, because inside of her it sounded nothing like the cheerful disco songs. That's why she finally said goodbye to life in 1987. This year, she would have been 90 years old and to mark the occasion, she – embodied by Anita Eberwein – is once again at her best. The actress tells the story of Dalaida's life and sings her songs, a lively evening with a rollercoaster of emotions.
Das Vindobona, Wallensteinplatz 6, 1200 Vienna. 15 November 19:30. From 27 €. Web |
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| ...happybirthday |
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5 Years hdgö – 5 days free of free entry
From today, the House of Austrian History whoops it up! The museum celebrates its 5th birthday and therefore itself with an exciting programme, exclusive guided tours and special guests. It’s us who are the presentees, though, since the entry for the next 5 days is: zero! Instead, the “Bitesize History” programme presents objects and people that have moved Austria since 1918. There are also daily changing glimpses behind the scenes of the museum and in the evenings Corinna Milborn or Melisa Erkurt will guide us through the last 5 years of contemporary history.
hdgö, Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna. 15-19 November. Daily from 10:30 am. Free admission. Web |
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| TALK OF TOWN |
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| Shop of the Week |
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| smaier |
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Hana
“Cairo kisses Vienna” is the motto of the new, highly elegant patisserie Hana. Here you can buy cheesecake as well as muffins – but above all, baklava are baked in the open-plan kitchen. Up to 30 varieties are on offer every day: in a wide variety of shapes and with all kinds of fillings such as pistachios, walnuts and cashews. If the Turkish baklava are too sweet for you, try the Arabic baklava with a special rose water mixture. And yes, vegan baklava are also available in the marble display case. By the way, Ha-na is Arabic and means “ happiness”, in Kurdish it means “hope”. Could do with some at the moment.
Hana, Brückengasse 4, 1060 Vienna. Mon-Sun 9:00 to 19:00. Web |
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| Restaurant of the Week |
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| Bao Bar |
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Bao Bar
Sometimes you simply have to be quick about eating and always having burgers gets kind of boring. Bao buns present themselves as a good alternative. The white, steamed yeast balls are soft and fluffy and are served as street food in Asia. Filled with all sorts of interesting ingredients, they resemble burgers (at least visually) and yet taste different. Probably the best bao buns in Vienna are served in the small Bao Bar, which – merci! – has now opened its 3rd branch just around the corner from our editorial office. The filling with Sulmtaler chicken from Styria tastes particularly great – and it's also available as a bowl!
Bao Bar, Operngasse 30, 1040 Vienna + 1020 +1070. Mon-Sat 11:30 to 20:00. Web |
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