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MAGYAR MINUTE

Magyar Minute is a video series and digital publication founded by a former music producer and performer from Los Angeles who first came to Hungary in 2001, kept being drawn back, and made it home when his half-Hungarian son was born. Through short videos, articles, and personal stories from Ray and the occasional guest, it explores Hungarian culture, history, people, and everyday life: the Hungary the guidebooks leave out, the small things that explain the big ones.

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Stories from the ground.

Partner01Why Budapest Has a Statue of Ronald Reagan, and What Embassies Actually Do Contributor02The Hungarian Wine Valtteri Bottas Can’t Stop BuyingSmike 03The Budapest Business Journal’s Back to Business Party at Gordon Ramsay Bar & Grill

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Got a Hungary story?

I started Magyar Minute on my own, but I never wanted it to stay a one-person thing. If you're living your own corner of Hungary, I'd love to make room for your story here: on the site, credited to you, with a link back to your channel. It stays yours everywhere else.

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Featured story

What Budapest Gives My Son Without Ever Teaching Him

A bridge that was blown up and rebuilt, a parliament too big to take in at once, a tram that makes the river appear. My son is collecting a country without anyone sitting him down to explain it.

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Learning Hungary by living in it.

I'm an American in Hungary. Magyar Minute is what I'm calling the notes I take here. Some of it I write down. Some I post. Some I'm still working out. If something here makes you slow down and look closer too, that's the point.

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