109 result(s) for györgy szabó
SopronFest 2025: Music, Culture & Happiness in the Heart of Western Hungary
- 8 Apr 2025 3:43 PM
- entertainment
Three years ago, SopronFest was launched with the goal of bringing something fresh and vibrant to the Hungarian festival scene — in both content and format. Set in Hungary’s westernmost city, the festival returns this year during the Pentecost weekend, from June 6–8, with headliners like Timmy Trumpet, Parov Stelar, Worakls, Dub FX, and top Hungarian acts including Halott Pénz, Majka, Ákos, and ...
New Exhibition at National Gallery in Budapest Examines 19th-Century Artists' Reactions to 'Natural Changes'
- 22 Mar 2025 6:35 AM
- community & culture
The National Gallery's new exhibition, Habitat, examines art's relationship to nature and artists' reactions to natural changes with the help of sixty works - paintings, graphic and photo series, sculptures, photo documentation and videos - from the second half of the 19th century to the present day.
Hungarian Opinion on Péter Magyar, Ex-Husband of Former Justice Minister
- 11 Apr 2024 2:55 PM
- http://www.budapost.eu
- current affairs
Weekly newspapers were already on the stands when tens of thousands of people attended the 15 March rally where Péter Magyar, the divorced husband of former justice minister Judit Varga announced his plan to set up a new centrist party. This week, most commentators express scepticism about his initiative.
Events Related to 15 March Commemoration of 1848 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest
- 14 Mar 2024 7:17 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
On March 15, 1848 - as part of the European revolutionary wave - a revolution broke out in Pest-Buda, and it triumphed without bloodshed with the slogans of national sovereignty and civil transformation ("equality, freedom, brotherhood"). Modern parliamentary Hungary was born, and the process leading to the War of Independence began, aiming to abolish Habsburg rule and achieve independence and ...
An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 4.
- 5 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- community & culture
Marion Merrick’s books are the only first-hand account written by a westerner of what it was like to live and work in communist Hungary, and then in the aftermath of the 1989 change of regime.
Opposition Parties Received Illegal Campaign Financing, Hungarian Audit Office Finds
- 21 Feb 2024 6:54 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- current affairs
The State Audit Office (ÁSZ) has established that parties in the opposition alliance before the 2020 parliamentary elections were involved in illegal campaign financing, ÁSZ head László Windisch said.
Western Ambassadors Put Pressure on Hungary to Ratify Sweden’s NATO Membership
- 15 Feb 2024 5:30 AM
- http://www.budapost.eu
- current affairs
A pro-government commentator compares the US ambassador to erstwhile Soviet oppressors because of his presence at Mondays’ extraordinary session of Parliament which was convened at the initiative of the opposition to vote on Sweden’s accession to NATO but boycotted by the governing majority. A liberal author dismisses such comparison as absurd.
'TechnoCool: New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties', Hungarian National Gallery Budapest
- 21 Jan 2024 11:20 AM
- entertainment
On display until 11 February 2024. The exhibition titled TechnoCool, opening in the Hungarian National Gallery at the end of October, explores the way of thinking of the generation of artists, who started their career in the 1990s and who felt liberated by the economic-cultural openness after the change in the political system.
Tejföl: Is Sour Cream the Very Essence of Hungarianness?
- 27 Dec 2023 7:36 AM
- food & drink
Not so long ago, I interviewed the son of the great Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó. The musician had escaped to the United States with his family in 1956. His brother had already told me they had embraced America and its culture with open arms and turned their back on “Hungarianness.”
SopronFest 2025: Music, Culture & Happiness in the Heart of Western Hungary
- 8 Apr 2025 3:43 PM
- entertainment
Three years ago, SopronFest was launched with the goal of bringing something fresh and vibrant to the Hungarian festival scene — in both content and format. Set in Hungary’s westernmost city, the festival returns this year during the Pentecost weekend, from June 6–8, with headliners like Timmy Trumpet, Parov Stelar, Worakls, Dub FX, and top Hungarian acts including Halott Pénz, Majka, Ákos, and ...
New Exhibition at National Gallery in Budapest Examines 19th-Century Artists' Reactions to 'Natural Changes'
- 22 Mar 2025 6:35 AM
- community & culture
The National Gallery's new exhibition, Habitat, examines art's relationship to nature and artists' reactions to natural changes with the help of sixty works - paintings, graphic and photo series, sculptures, photo documentation and videos - from the second half of the 19th century to the present day.
Hungarian Opinion on Péter Magyar, Ex-Husband of Former Justice Minister
- 11 Apr 2024 2:55 PM
- http://www.budapost.eu
- current affairs
Weekly newspapers were already on the stands when tens of thousands of people attended the 15 March rally where Péter Magyar, the divorced husband of former justice minister Judit Varga announced his plan to set up a new centrist party. This week, most commentators express scepticism about his initiative.
Events Related to 15 March Commemoration of 1848 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest
- 14 Mar 2024 7:17 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- community & culture
On March 15, 1848 - as part of the European revolutionary wave - a revolution broke out in Pest-Buda, and it triumphed without bloodshed with the slogans of national sovereignty and civil transformation ("equality, freedom, brotherhood"). Modern parliamentary Hungary was born, and the process leading to the War of Independence began, aiming to abolish Habsburg rule and achieve independence and ...
An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 4.
- 5 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- community & culture
Marion Merrick’s books are the only first-hand account written by a westerner of what it was like to live and work in communist Hungary, and then in the aftermath of the 1989 change of regime.
Opposition Parties Received Illegal Campaign Financing, Hungarian Audit Office Finds
- 21 Feb 2024 6:54 AM
- hungarymatters.hu
- current affairs
The State Audit Office (ÁSZ) has established that parties in the opposition alliance before the 2020 parliamentary elections were involved in illegal campaign financing, ÁSZ head László Windisch said.
Western Ambassadors Put Pressure on Hungary to Ratify Sweden’s NATO Membership
- 15 Feb 2024 5:30 AM
- http://www.budapost.eu
- current affairs
A pro-government commentator compares the US ambassador to erstwhile Soviet oppressors because of his presence at Mondays’ extraordinary session of Parliament which was convened at the initiative of the opposition to vote on Sweden’s accession to NATO but boycotted by the governing majority. A liberal author dismisses such comparison as absurd.
'TechnoCool: New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties', Hungarian National Gallery Budapest
- 21 Jan 2024 11:20 AM
- entertainment
On display until 11 February 2024. The exhibition titled TechnoCool, opening in the Hungarian National Gallery at the end of October, explores the way of thinking of the generation of artists, who started their career in the 1990s and who felt liberated by the economic-cultural openness after the change in the political system.
Tejföl: Is Sour Cream the Very Essence of Hungarianness?
- 27 Dec 2023 7:36 AM
- food & drink
Not so long ago, I interviewed the son of the great Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó. The musician had escaped to the United States with his family in 1956. His brother had already told me they had embraced America and its culture with open arms and turned their back on “Hungarianness.”