As we always do write about interesting and upcoming fashion & music events which take place in Vienna or near Vienna, we thought writing about the current RUN VIE – Festival for Urban Art & Music is a real must. This music event took place for the first time in October 2009 and has developed itself within the festival industry in the past 2 years. The overall goal of this festival is to bring innovative artists and musicians to Vienna

“Upside down you turn me” is the title of an unusual photo shooting session which was currently held for the local magazine Name It for their August/September issue. Producer Susanne Gosch picked The Ring, Vienna´s Casual Luxury Hotel as main location next to Morisson Club and Szene Wien, photographer Julia Spicker and the entire styling team was more than happy … we as well as we did receive some great photos and again also showed that The Ring, Vienna´s Casual Luxury Hotel

What’s in a name? We have been told that BBQ is ‘in’ in Austria, hence we have decided to dedicate a posting to this term, trying to explain what it in general implies, what types of cooking techniques there are and what kind of events are being held in Austria to further ‘hype’ this type of cooking. Barbacoa Traditional barbacoa involves digging a hole in the ground and placing some meat with a pot underneath it, so that the juices

Cocktails, chilly music, a beach to put your feet in the sand, people-watching, is that possible in and around Vienna? Yes it is, we visited the 4 most popular ‘beach clubs’ in and around Vienna for you. The biggest ‘beach club’ is ‘Sand in the City’, it is located directly in the city center and open from April until September. This beach club offers next to a big sand area several smaller bars & restaurants, good music, a great beach

Vienna is getting closer to cities like London, Barcelona or Berlin this year in September. With ‘Waves Vienna’ the city of Vienna is getting its first Club Festival. From September 28th until October 2nd the most important clubs like ‘Flex’, ‘Badeschiff’, ‘Fluc’ and ‘Pratersauna’, a few special off-side locations as well as some public spaces in Vienna ‘get together’ to build the base for this festival. The slogan of ‘Waves Vienna 2011’ is ‘East meets West’ … around the 2nd

Normally we write about The Ring, Vienna´s Casual Luxury Hotel, we post an interesting interview or write about things that happen in Vienna or in Austria, this time we want to share the upcoming “World Bodypainting Festival” which takes place in Pörtschach at Lake Wörthersee from June 27th – July 3rd, 2011. Why you may ask yourself? Well, easy to answer, Lake´s – my lake hotel & spa is official partner hotel of this event. The World Bodypainting Festival, this

It is time to have a closer look at the music festivals that will take place in 2011 in Austria again, and, surprisingly there are more festivals as we thought. Pretty complicated to list all of them, we would end up with an article that might takes days to read. Hence we decided to list the most interesting and largest ones, and also try to answer our question if music does set the tone in Austria in summer 2011. The

We already wrote about the upcoming fashion event at Lake´s – my lake hotel & spa called ‘Lake´s Fashion Days’ a few weeks ago on our blog, now it’s time to present to you the final program including the various side events. We have been able to get more than 40 designers from Austria, Slovenia, Germany & Italy for this event, which means that we will have close to 40 shows. Special shows are the shows by ‘Tiberius’ and ‘ep_anoui’

What is SIME? SIME is Northern-Europe largest conference about not only web 2.0 and internet but also the latest digital opportunities. It has events in Barcelona, Stockholm and Helsinki and this year in Vienna. SIME’s vision for Vienna is to create a leading international event bringing not only world-class speakers and ‘digital entrepreneurs’ but also to establish a new and sustainable platform for young creative and web 2.0 professionals to foster growth within the Austrian digital ecosystem. SIME is about how

After 2 successful ‘Fashion Blog Lunches’ with 2 great designers (September 2010 and January 2011) Maria Ratzinger of Stylekingdom and Viktoria Egger of Modeltalk confronted us with a great designer: Eva Poleschinski with her label ep_anoui for April 2011. The ‘Fashion Blog Lunch’ took place on April 9th@The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel and again was a great success! After the lunch at the restaurant at eight all participants ‘disappeared’ into the ‘Ring Suite’ and Eva Poleschinski had the chance