Vienna

VIENNA -- IT'S A grand view from Mayor Russ Brinsfield's home on Water Street in this old Dorchester County farming and fishing village.The breeze-ruffled Nanticoke River gleams in the spring sun, and looking east across the tidal river to the Wicomico County shore, marsh and forest stretch for miles upstream and down.It's a good place to live, agree the people Brinsfield has asked here to discuss the future of Vienna. It's a 15-minute drive from jobs in Salisbury and Cambridge, 45 minutes from the beach, an hour and a half from Annapolis.

Annapolis Opera began its 2004-2005 season with a "Vienna Dreams" program featuring Viennese and American operetta - a nostalgic diversion and welcome antidote to all the political news on the weekend before Election Day. Operetta is distinguished by gorgeous melodies, which seemed to flow from the pens of Viennese composers Franz Lehar and Johann Strauss, and Americans Sigmund Romberg and Victor Herbert. This lyrical music held sway in the mid- to late 19th-century Vienna and reached its American peak in the Depression-era films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, America's singing sweethearts, through the late '40s.

VIENNA -- John Smith slept here. Or somewhere near this Nanticoke River town, where the wind twists through vast marshes and gulls wail overhead. Never mind that the great Chesapeake Bay explorer's visit was short, or that it occurred 400 years ago. Vienna is banking on the lore of Smith's voyage to bring tourists into this sleepy Eastern Shore hamlet a mile off U.S. 50. The town is planning to build a John Smith discovery center along the Nanticoke, an...

At first glance, Vienna is still exactly what you'd expect. Baroque palaces and dancing Lipizzaner stallions. Sugary apple strudel and chocolatey Sacher tortes. Cobbled plazas filled with the strains of Mozart and Beethoven, Strauss and Brahms. But peer beyond the graceful 16th-century facade of the former Hapsburg riding stables at the newly opened Museums-Quartier, and you get a glimpse of something livelier, smarter and hipper in the Austrian capital. Roll over, Beethoven. Vienna, paean to all things proper and past, has gone giddy with a 21st-century blast of what's new. "This was a sleepy, backward, dull city, but in the last few years it's just exploded," says Hebe Jeffrey, a tour guide who has lived here for nearly two decades.

I am interested in taking an English-language cooking course of one or two weeks' duration in Vienna. Although I am a caterer, the course need not be on a professional level.The closest thing that could be found is a program run by Herzerl Tours in New York, which offers a one-week Taste of Vienna package. It includes four half-day sessions at the Am Judenplatz cooking school in Vienna.Class participants will prepare a Viennese meal each day and eat the foods they prepare. Last year's dishes included Viennese-style veal scallops, beef goulash and apple strudel.

VIENNA, Austria -- The company that perfected the two-minute burger and fries is turning its attention to the four-hour cup of coffee.In Vienna, where dallying in coffeehouses is as central to the culture as waltzes or wieners, the last thing you might expect to see on your demitasse would be golden arches. But McDonald's is experimenting here with a concept called McCafe.Austrians apparently love McDonald's for its burgers; their country has more than 120 of the company's restaurants. For coffee, cake and conversation, however, the Viennese have long preferred the more leisurely pace of the city's hundreds of traditional cafes, where patrons such as Freud, Trotsky and Hitler all learned to nurse a cup while reading, writing or talking.

Dr. Ernst Friedrich Lepold Niedermeyer, who was a leading researcher, author, clinician and pioneer in the field of electroencephalogy and its use in epilepsy and other brain research, died Thursday of colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. The longtime Towson resident was 92. "He was one of the senior people in his field at his passing and widely respected. His textbook, 'Electroencephalography,' is the standard in the field," said Dr. Ronald P. Lesser, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

On February 24, 2003, MARION R., of Vienna, Maryland, mother of Sharon Danner and grandmother of Jason Danner. Graveside Service will be held Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 12:00 P.M. at Loudon Park Cemetery. Donations may be made to Vienna Methodist Church, P.O. Box 278, Vienna, MD. 21869. Arrangements by Zeller Funeral Home in East New Market.

RAYMOND E. BAUER, age 89, of Vienna, VA on Saturday, September 13, 2003 at Inova Fairfax Hospital, beloved husband of the late C. Louise Bauer; loving father of Ted K. Bauer and Susan L. Wilkes; brother of Kelton Bauer and Mary Jane Skuhr. Also survived by three grandchildren. Friends may call at the Money & King Funeral Home, 171 W. Maple Avenue, Vienna, VA on Tuesday, September 16 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, September 17 at 11 a.m. at St. Mark's Catholic Church, 9970 Vale Road, Vienna, VA. Interment private in Lorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. The family suggest that memorials be made to The American Heart Assoc.

In Montgomery I-495 car accident kills man, 43, from Vienna, Va. CABIN JOHN -- A Vienna, Va., man died early yesterday after the car in which he was riding hit a tractor-trailer on Interstate 495 about a mile north of the American Legion Bridge, said Maryland State Police in Rockville. James Brackett, 43, was a passenger in a 1995 Acura driven by Elizabeth Brackett, 38, of Vienna, Va. Police said she lost control of the car about 1 a.m. after swerving to avoid an article of clothing in the road.