As the basis of a nightlife scene, dilapidation might not be an appealing concept at first. But it has been over a decade now since Szimpla*, the pioneer of “ruin pubs” (romkocsma), set up in a disused tenement block in District VII. Crude, rickety, unpolished: just like that, Szimpla created a trend that caught the… Continue »

Hungarian internet users searching for “whores” (kurvák) or “gangsters” (gengszterek) found themselves directed to the website of the ruling Fidesz party and the Catholic Church this week. This was the result of a “Google bomb” attack, which takes advantage of the fact that the search engine ranks pages by the number of links and keywords… Continue »