1. Who are you? My name is Sarah von Maltzahn. I run www.CityKids.at, a trendy parents’ guide to life in Vienna with children. I grew up in New York City where I had a long career as an investment banker, before moving to Vienna, Austria several years ago with my children and husband. I love Vienna, with all it’s hidden nooks and crannies, the diversity, yet community that it offers, and the wit and charm of it’s residents. 2. What

In September 2010 we started with a new initiative called ‘Fashion Blogger Lunch’ at The Ring, Vienna´s Casual Luxury Hotel. The idea was brought to us by Maria Ratzinger from ‘Stylekingdom‘ and Viktoria Egger from ‘Modeltalk‘. The 1st lunch was more or less part of our cooperation with the MQ Vienna Fashion Week 2010 and turned out to be very successfull, logically we decided to also have some ‘fashion-dedicated’ lunches in 2011. The 2nd lunch took place on January 15th,

1. Who are you? My name is Michaela Amort and I’m a fashion blogger based in Vienna. 2. What do you like about what you do? The best thing by far is to be totally independent from advertisers – which is really special in the fashion-industry – as my blog Tschilp.com is a non-profit project I’m doing in my spare time. 3. What don’t you like about what you do? I wouldn’t do it if there were was anything ☺

During the last weekend of November we were visited by 4 top bloggers from the UK, a representative from our PR company Mango PR in the UK as well as a representative from BMI. As we do work with the blogger scene we knew what to expect (bloggers wanting to know everything and making pictures all the time … working on their blog postings the whole day & night) but this group smashed all! Their program in Vienna was one of

Lightning colorful water tanks and electronic beats give a different meaning to the words ‘Christmas market’ pretty soon in Vienna. The pre-Christmas period in Vienna will now become fast, wild and varicolored, a new place of cultural interests will be formed, and the existing traditional ‘Punschstand’ will be completely new interpreted. The lighting space installation called ‘kubik’, that already caused some furor and sensational statements in various cities in Europe, is on its way to Vienna. Actually it is a

1. Who are you? I´m Julie May Queen, an artist, married to my big love and proud mother of a son. I graduated from the fashion college “Modeschule Hetzendorf” in Austria. Through my training as designer, I worked on several ventures in opera houses and theatres at home and abroad. Projects with Christian Ludwig Attersee, Hermann Nitsch, Roman Polanski, Vivienne Westwood and Eric Woolfson have inspired me to transpose my own picture language photographically. Due to my wide education I

It´s Blogging Time! On November 13th, 2010 the World Blogging Forum (WBF), an international blogger convention will take place in Vienna. Close to 200 participants from more than 14 countries will come together at the HQ of the company A1 Telekom Austria (hosted partner) to discuss about the future of digital media production, usage as well as posting possibilities. “Today almost everyone can generate digital content, share it via social media and open a public discussion about it”, says Ritchie

1. Who are you? I´m Maria Ratzinger, team-member of Garmz and Blogger of stylekingdom.com 2. What do you like about what you do? Vienna isn´t well-known for fashion so far, but being part of the rapidly growing fashion scene is an amazing opportunity. 3. Please tell us about your initiative garmz.com and the idea behind this project/concept? Becoming a fashion designer is more than hard work. Despite talent you need a lot of financial resources to make it to the

It is time to take your old ‘sneakers’ out of your wardrobe. Sneakerness is in Vienna, the world largest sneaker ‘bazaar’. On October 9th, 2010 at the Palais Schönborn in Vienna sneaker freaks and casual shoe fanatics can exchange or sell their sneakers, buy new ones at the booths of Wood Wood, Paar, 6th Floor, Zapateria, Phönix and Grand. Sneakerness is an idea that was born in Switzerland and which took place 5 times already, 2008 in Bern, 2009 in

Does one need to explain the Jazz Fest Wien? All know that Vienna is a music capital, all year around, many musicians play in Vienna throughout the year, either as single act or as part of one of the main festivals, of which the Jazz Fest Wien is one. 2010 is the 20th anniversary of the Jazz Fest Wien, and again the organization was able to bring international top stars, in order to present a music which performance is increasing