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Last week we mentioned how our sister site had come across what was in all likelihood topless photos of Miss Hungary Anett Maximovits and was pretty damn certain that it indeed was her. Well, sexiside.hu did manage to scoop the Hungarian media, as velvet.hu today reports that Anett has admitted that...
What Are We Going to Do With All The Wild Boars We Have to Kill This Year?: Chew.hu, the Internation
Around a month ago I went with a few friends on a late-night outing in the woods near Budapest to watch the annual meteor shower known as the Perseids. While the shooting stars were haunting, more haunting still was a very large wild boar (vaddisznó, pic above via jns001) that crashed our party and ...
The bill on modifying the Construction Act also includes a ban on improper use of public areas, including sleeping or living in them.
Despite our earlier mockery of Sopron's decision to start printing a "local currency" called the kékfrank ("Blue Frank"), the mayor of Kapuvár recently decided to go ahead with a similar scheme. According to hvg.hu, the will be issued by the same "bank" that is printing... Sopron's "money," with the sa...
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So as we reported earlier, as of August 5th smoking has been legally out of bounds in metro underpasses here in Budapest. What we didn't say at the time is that our underground overlords decided to give everyone a one-month "grace period" to get used to breathing in only stale, poopy air down there....
With this year's grape harvest in Hungary already upon us, we are also heading into prime wine festival season. In addition to more famous ones like the upcoming Budapest International Wine and Champagne Festival, this weekend the Skanzen "folk park" up the Danube in Szentendre will play host to a g...
The government has transferred HUF 5.7bn to national carrier Malev to prevent the repossession of some of its aircraft by a US leasing company, business weekly Figyelo said in its fresh issue on Thursday.
With their joke campaign (including plans on how to overhaul the BKV as seen in the photo above) catching serious traction in the media, it should be no surprise that the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party would be included in opinion polls relating to this fall's local elections. What is surprising, ho...
Budapest's sixth annual BuSho short film festival is kicking off today and will run through Sunday, featuring films from all over the world. The primary viewing location will be the Vörösmarty Cinema, with other events being held at the nearby Mikszáth Square.
The last day of August this year is a record-breaker: the coldest, with a temperature of 12 degrees Celsius in Sopron in the west and 13.2 degrees in Budapest, the national weather service said on Tuesday.
Enjoy an Exciting Climax to This Year's Hungarian Cucumber Season: Chew.hu, the International Home o
Like most of Hungary, over the past weeks we've succumbed to the traditional torpor of uborkaszezon ("cucumber season"), that time of summer when so little happens that the media is obliged to publish stories about the size and character of the annual cucumber harvest. ...Unfortunately, we've been so d...
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Workers and police outside the Hungarian National Bank building. The structure is adjacent to the US Embassy, where construction crews found a WWII bomb on Monday.
[Editor's Note: Regular readers will remember this wonderful tribute to the Hungarian-American film impresario Adolph Zukor we published back in January, courtesy of another regular reader, who goes by the name Farkas László. Well, László has done it again, this time with a video-annotated profile o...
Jammed: As the initial deadline for completion of work on Budapest's Margaret Bridge passes by, prosecutor's investigate claims of mismanagement of funds.
Budapest mayor Gábor Demszky made recommendation to the next city leadership yesterday as he chaired a city council meeting for the last time after 20 years in office.
