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WHEN Night FALLS

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Contents June 2010 Cover story 14 Night workers

Features 13 Interview Reverend Sue Woodcock 18 City After-hours clubs 22 La vida Astronomy 26 Street life Carrer Marià Aguiló 40 Food and drink Reviews and more

Regulars 6 You the reader 7 City snapshot 8 What’s on the web 11 Columns 29 On 66 Back page

Advertising 42 Food & Drink Directory 46 Marketplace

BARCELONA AT NIGHT

From the Editor: June is the month with the shortest night of the year and the loudest of the Catalan festivals, in the shape of Sant Joan, where staying up throughout the night is either a pleasure (enjoying coca, cava and a beautiful sunrise) or a pain (being kept awake by the non-stop fireworks). To mark the occasion, we’ve explored different aspects of Barcelona at night. There are interviews with people whose work begins when the rest of us are long done with the nine-to-five grind, a look at Barcelona’s after-hours club scene and a feature on understanding the night sky. June also brings another highlight of the local cultural calendar, albeit of more recent creation than Sant Joan, and that’s Sónar—we look at the extras that are part of this year’s festival, as well as lots more events happening around the city this month, both during the day and at night.

Hannah Pennell

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Publisher Creative Media Group, S.L. Managing Director Esther Jones Senior Editor Hannah Pennell Assistant Editor Katy MacGregor Art Director David Robinson Graphic Designer Aisling Callinan Financial Manager Cecilia Ölmedal Sales Director Rainer Hobrack Account Executives Heather Anderson, Janna Nordstrom Marketing Director Hazel Walker Marketing Assistant Jade Anglesea Sales Assistants Alexandra Longstaff, Malini Sampat Editorial Assistants Nadia El-Yousseph, Rebecca Eyres Design Assistants Kim Alers, Emmy Beijk Financial Assistant Anna Fletcher Morris Contributors Jonathan Bennett, Lucy Brzoska, Roger de Flower, Nadia Feddo, Pete Jenson, Kati Krause, Nicola Thornton, William Truini Photographers Lucy Brzoska, Patricia Esteve, Tracy Gilbert, Lorna Palmer, Adriana Trif, Ranald Ward, Lee Woolcock Cover image and night shot this page Tracy Gilbert Illustrator Ben Rowdon Editorial Office Enric Granados 48, entlo. 2ª, 08008 Barcelona. Tel. 93 451 4486, Fax. 93 451 6537; editorial@barcelona-metropolitan.com Sales ads@barcelona-metropolitan.com General enquiries info@barcelona-metropolitan.com. www.barcelona-metropolitan.com Printer Litografia Rosés Depósito Legal B35159-96 The views expressed in Barcelona Metropolitan are not necessarily those of the publisher.

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World Cup 2010

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Photo courtesy: 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee, South Africa

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What people have been looking at on our website during the last month 1. ‘What’s for lunch: Libentia’. Nadia Feddo reviews this hub of ‘bistronomics’ 2. ‘What’s for lunch: Non Solo Pizza’. Still drawing in the readers is Tara Stevens’s review of this Italian restaurant in Enric Granados 3. ‘Top 10 essentials to finding work in Barcelona’ 4. ‘A hidden jewel’. Exploring one of the city’s lesser-known parks, Parc Guinardó 5. ‘Barcelona Take-Out: the best food delivery services’ (Food and drink blog) 6. ‘Best paella on the beach’ (Food and drink blog) 7. ‘Essential Barcelona’. A guide about what visitors to the city shouldn’t miss 8 ‘What’s for lunch: La Caseta del Migdia’. As the weather improves, so do your chances to eat at this spot with some of the best views of Barcelona 9. ‘Metropolitan walking tour: Sarrià’. The second in our new series of guided tours 10. ‘Barça vs. Nature’. Last month’s cover story has also caught the eye of on-line readers

It’s time for another unavoidable sporting event this month, in the shape of the FIFA World Cup, taking place for the first time in its history in an African country, specifically South Africa. The evident excitement of the event’s mascot, Zakumi (above), about the tournament’s approach has been spreading amongst the football lovers of the world over the past months (and probably years in some cases, since the end of the last one), to reach its climax over the next few weeks. Check out our website for World Cup special features including suggestions about where to watch the matches around the city, interviews with residents from some of the countries taking part and a look at which of the players of FC Barcelona will be playing for their respective nations. www.barcelona-metropolitan.com/worldcup

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The Informer Art... The auction house Soler y Llach in Barcelona was accused of trying to sell images by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson with fake signatures. “This sale is grotesque,” said a spokesperson for The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, based in Paris. “How can they sell prints and photographs, knowingly stolen and with false signatures?” The auction, scheduled for May 27th, included numerous pictures that have the letterhead of the Brazilian press agency Manchete, which specifies that the prints rights are granted only for reproduction not for exhibition or sale. Of the 66 images in the auction, only two or three are true collectible signed prints by Cartier-Bresson himself. All the others are press runs with a forged signature— the photographer never signed prints intended for the press.

Legal... Five countries have asked Spain to investigate crimes committed under the reign of Franco. At the start of May, Spain took part in its first Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights at the Geneva office of the UN—a judgement is due in September with a report of recommendations to be prepared by Chile, India and South Africa. During the review, 55 countries put forward comments and questions; of these, five—Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and Peru—urged Spain to investigate crimes committed during the Franco regime and allow the families of victims to recover the remains of their relatives. The Cuban representative said that “Spain has unfinished business” and urged the country to end impunity for crimes against humanity under the almost 40-year dictatorship.

City... The consultation over the Avinguda Diagonal resulted in the resignation of Deputy Mayor Carles Martí. Barcelona Mayor, Jordi Hereu, publicly called for Martí to go at a press conference held to announce the results of the consultation, where he also spoke of the problems the consultation process had experienced and said that there were “more errors than were acceptable.”

During the press conference, Hereu also publicly accepted the resignation of Pilar Conesa, the information systems manager at the Ajuntament. The results announced at the press conference revealed that Option C (non-reform of the Diagonal) achieved 137,474 votes, or 79.4 percent, whilst Option A (Boulevard) received 11.38 percent of the vote and Option B (Rambla), just 8.28 percent. Only 12 percent of eligible voters took part.

Health... Spanish King Juan Carlos I was operated on in Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic to remove a benign nodule from his right lung, which was discounted as being cancerous. The king was visited by various relatives and dignitaries following the surgery, including the president of the Generalitat, José Montilla, Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Prince and Princess of Asturias. The king left the public hospital after four days; upon his departure, he made a short speech thanking the Clínic’s staff and saying, “In Spain, we should be proud of the public health system we have.”

Really... The Spanish health minister, Trinidad Jiménez, announced that the new, tougher version of the country’s antismoking law will be in force by the start of 2011. Despite efforts to get the law in place for the first half of this year, the final date for its application has been pushed back various times. Jiménez said that the government was currently negotiating the terms of the law with different parliamentary groups; she predicted that the new legislation will be considered by the Spanish Congress’s Health Commission this month and should be approved by the autumn. The law will eliminate all current exceptions that let people smoke in certain public spaces, permitted in the previous version of the law, which came into being in 2006.

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Wild Barcelona Text and photos by Lucy Brzoska

By Pete Jenson In the lead-up to Barcelona’s hosting of the European Athletics Championships in July, each month we take a look at what’s making the headlines in the local sports pages.

Bountiful butterflies

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s grass goes to seed, the slopes below Sant Pere Màrtir are turning pale gold, the colour of summer. The vivid yellow flowers of Spanish broom that illuminate Collserola in May are nearly extinguished, and now it’s time for scabious. Its frothy purple-pink blooms are everywhere, on waist-high stems, leaves hardly to be seen, and usually with a butterfly attached.

a chestnut crown that impales its prey on spines. The dried twigs of broom are sharp enough to serve as a larder or to help crack open a stolen egg.

Near the top of the ridge, spectacular Illyrian thistles have shot up like spiny candelabra. Hummingbird hawk moths zip among their electric purple flower heads. Sometimes people armed

Iberian Marbled White

Illyrian thistles

The most abundant butterflies in Collserola are among the most beautiful, such as the Iberian Marbled White, delicately shaded in charcoal. And the diminutive Common Blue, whose males spread their wings with a violet shimmer.

Down in the valley bottom, rabbits rustle among this year’s crop of fennel, which is already two metres high. A whistle resonates. It’s mysterious how a bird as large and scorchingly yellow as the Golden oriole somehow manages to remain invisible. Without its characteristic calls, which starlings love to mimic, we might never notice that this species comes to breed here every year. Another summer visitor is the Woodchat shrike, a butcher bird with

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with gloves and knives come to cut the stems and strip them of thorns. If the Devil grows Illyrian thistles in his garden—in Castilian they’re called Cardo del Demonio—it’s because both stems and flower heads are edible, apparently similar to artichokes.

As evening falls, the searing sound of wings fills the air, as common and alpine swifts swoop for insects. At twilight they drop down to the city below, to the traffic-filled canyons where they nest.

Lucy Brzoska writes for www.iberianature.com and runs nature tours in Barcelona.

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ith Barcelona once again getting the better of Real Madrid, football fans were left to reflect on a tale of two forward lines—one which cost close to €200 million and another which cost just over €200,000. Barça’s budget front three of homegrown youngsters went up against the expensively assembled superstar select that Madrid pulled together last summer. Despite the massive difference in the money paid for Bojan Krkic, Pedro and Leo Messi, compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Kaká, it was Barça who finished top of the pile for the second year running.

Barcelona paid €200,000 for Pedro when they signed him from CD San Isidro, Messi arrived aged 13 with Barcelona paying for his family’s accommodation and footing the bill for hormone treatment injections that he needed until he was 16 and Bojan, the last of the famous three, came absolutely free. And this season he saw off competition from Zlatan Ibrahimovic who was the exception to Barça’s policy of saving money and trusting in products from their youth team.

Real Madrid began the season by spending around €94 million on Ronaldo, €35 million on Benzema and €67 million on Kaká. The masterplan was that Kaká would become the new Zinedine Zidane for Madrid, Ronaldo would be just like fellow countryman Luís Figo, and Benzema would be the new, record-breaking Brazilian striker Ronaldo.

Ultimately the only thing the trio had in common with the other was that just as in 2003, 2004 and 2005 when Zidane, Ronaldo and Figo graced the Bernabeu, Real Madrid won nothing. Cristiano Ronaldo was a huge success, scoring 26 goals in his first season, but Benzema and Kaká struggled for form and fitness. The former had language problems while the latter earned the nickname ‘World Cup Kaká’ amid suspicions he was saving himself for the summer tournament.

Although Madrid pushed Barça to the last weekend of the season they lost both games against the Catalan team in a campaign that ended with them helpless to stop Pep Guardiola’s side winning the title with a record-breaking 99-point haul. Of course, Madrid will be back next season, even more determined. When the old Galaticos failed three years running, they called in the Capello calvary and Fabio won them a league title. Time will tell if a certain José Mourinho will do the same or if Barça’s low-cost home boys can triumph again.

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Reverend Sue Woodcock Rector of Christ’s Church, Sabadell. English Having been ordained in Bolivia in 1995 and priested in Oxford in 1998, Sue has worked for the Spanish Episcopal Reformed Church (the Spanish Anglican Church) in Sabadell for 11 years. She was the first female priest in the diocese.

I was brought up near Heathrow Airport, but have lived most of my working life outside of Britain, in Iran, Uganda, Bolivia and Spain. I lived in Barcelona for three years in the Eighties—it was very different by the time I came back.

I work with a little Spanish congregation of about 40, functioning in Castilian and to some degree in Catalan. Historically, they were all local people from Sabadell but nowadays about a quarter are from outside. We have South Americans and one Australian. There aren’t many English people in Sabadell, they tend to live in prettier places.

I was brought up in the Church in the sense I was sent to Sunday school and was confirmed. That is the graduation from Sunday school and the point where most people never go back. I kept going because I had a friend there and we went to different schools. She kept going, so I kept going.

When I went off to [Oxford] university, I found myself in a hostel with about 12 students. The majority had church connections, so they said: “Come to church with us on Sunday.” I’d always been to church on Sunday so I did! I’ve often wondered what would have happened if I’d been with a group of people who’d said, “We’re going on an excursion on Sunday,” and I really don’t know.

I discovered in those early weeks in Oxford that being a Christian wasn’t about one hour on a Sunday morning. I found that in an environment where biblical truths and arguments were presented in a rational way, I could not say, “I don’t believe it is true.” It’s got to be all or nothing. So I began to look at mission work.

I had always wanted to travel. My older brother is 10 years older and when I was going off to secondary school, he was going off to Africa as a geologist so I’d kind of grown up with the idea that the world is out there and you can work anywhere. I had no idea where my work would take me.

If you had used the word missionary [to describe me then], I would have run a mile.

I’ve never felt particularly discriminated against either before or since becoming a priest. I was brought up believing I could do whatever I felt I wanted to do. I understand before I came to Sabadell there was someone who was against having a female priest, but I don’t think I’ve ever met them.

I think in post post-modern society, organised religion has a bad name and yet I think what a lot of people have rejected, certainly here in Spain, is the Roman Catholic church for all sorts of historical, political and social reasons, and they paint us all with the same brush. I don’t think they have rejected Jesus. I think the danger of religion which is not organised is that you can go down every alleyway and most of them are dead ends.

Home is wherever I am. I don’t miss very much at all from England although I enjoy it when I’m there. The only thing I bring back is Marmite and I have an endless supply of English books.

I go to the cinema quite a lot. I like it because I am not looking at the pile of papers in the office, or the pile of ironing to be done, I haven’t got the phone on so nobody can get me, and if I fall asleep, nobody notices.

There are all sorts of places I’d still like to go. I’d like to go up in a hot air balloon anywhere, it doesn’t matter where. At the end of the day, I would like to hear the Lord say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Interview by Nicola Thornton.

Photo by Lee Woolcock.

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NIGHT WORKERS The term night worker may be associated with a certain type of nocturnal labourer but many jobs require a night timetable. We speak to three workers whose working day starts long after most people’s have finished.

By Hannah Pennell and Nadia El-Yousseph. Photos by Tracy Gilbert.

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aking care of his customers’ night-time libation needs is Catalan Lluis Farga, 26, one of the bartenders at El Gato Negro in the Eixample. He’s been working in bars until the small hours of the morning for the past seven years having started in an Argentinian bar doing public relations. In winter months, he works two nights a week but in the summer it goes up to six.

“Some people think that working during the day is ‘normal’,” Farga explained, but much of the satisfaction he gets from his job can only come from a night shift. “It’s pretty cool because I learned a lot of spectacular shots, with fire. I love to work there because you can see the faces of the people that see that kind of shot for the first time.

I love it, especially serving up interactive shots like the ‘Rambo’ and the ‘Monica Lewinsky’.”

Farga is also studying at university and believes that working in a bar is an optimal employment option. “I wanted to work in a bar because it’s the best way to earn easy money being a student,” he explained. A day job can get in the way of classes and homework, and there’s the added bonus that, “Working at night is a way to save

money. You aren’t going to the clubs to spend your own money. You are saving money and also at the bar you can drink for free.”

Walking home after his shift, Farga gets to see a side of the city that few witness. With most people long in bed or dancing the night away in a club, he walks down empty, calm streets with the occasional empty taxi whizzing by or a police officer doing a breathalyser test.

‘Somehow I enjoy it—walking in Barcelona without any noise and people. It’s a different city.”

As a part-time football coach for a youth team, there is however a definite downside to his timetable. “Sometimes I go to sleep at 4.30am and have to wake up really early because I have to go to games. That’s the worst thing about it, but I choose to do it. Some Saturdays I have to get up at 8am after going to sleep at 4am.”

Farga’s weekend work also throws off his weekdays. “I have some problems falling asleep during the week. Probably the worst days are Mondays and Tuesdays,” he said. “Sometimes it’s a bit hard to pay attention to the teachers at university.” To combat the weekday insomnia, he uses the joint weapons of a strict timetable and coffee.

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1am is as busy as 11pm for Agustión Castro, 48, who has been working at Kiosko Martos on La Rambla since he was a teenager. Taking phone calls, helping customers, stooping over to pick up souvenirs that tourists unknowingly knock over, his shifts leave him little downtime, but come 3am and the Rambla is dead. “I like the peace that comes at that time of night,” he said. But by 5am the new batch of newspapers is already getting dropped off and he’s back to work again.

Castro has worked an alternating schedule (seven days in a row followed by seven nights in a row and so on) for his entire adult life.

Nevertheless, he still hasn’t gotten used to it. “The human body wants to sleep at night; it’s not natural to work then. I get home and I lie down and go to sleep right away.”

During his 32 years on Barcelona’s busiest street, Castro has seen it undergo huge change. “La Rambla has changed a lot. Twenty years ago there was a much more pleasant atmosphere. Local residents would take a stroll down and buy a book.” These days more tourists pass through than locals and with the shift in clientele has come a change in products. Castro explained that although he still offers books and magazines, what really sell are city guidebooks, batteries and, especially, postcards.

“It’s not a nice atmosphere at night. The only people that roam around are prostitutes and drug dealers.” However, he said that the street has really shaped up in the last two or three years, thanks to a heightened police presence. “Now the police walk by every five minutes or so, say hello, ask us how our night is going and tell us to call if we need anything.”

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uz Delgado is 29, originally from Colombia and has worked as a night-time taxi driver for the past four months. Her timetable is not easy—starting at 6pm and finishing at 6am five days a week. And the crisis has made it a hard job to make money from. Yet she clearly loves the work.

it’s time to start work again. And she says it doesn’t interfere with her social life: “No, on my day off [at the weekend], if I can, I meet up with friends to go to the cinema or for dinner or a walk.” When asked about how others respond to female taxi-drivers, Delgado admits that male taxi drivers sometimes makes comments. “Not the young men, but the older ones. They try to make me scared.” In contrast, male clients sometimes comment on how brave she is while others say it’s good to see a woman driving a taxi. She shrugs such things off, although says that they do motivate her.

Delgado has many stories about clients, even though she’s been doing the job for such a short time, and she explains most of them with a cheery laugh. The ones who fall asleep and have to be woken when they arrive at their destination. The woman who forgot where she lived and gave a non-existent address. The man who asked her to wait while he went to get his ‘tool’ at 5am in the morning and turned out to be a maintenance man at El Corte Inglés.

When asked if she’s ever felt uncomfortable, Delgado’s eyes widen as she remembers a recent incident when a couple started getting a bit too comfortable in the back seat. “They were two young people, Germans or British, maybe. Foreigners. They asked to go to Paseo de Colom but didn’t give any address—they said they’d tell me when we’d arrived.” After hearing a strange noise, Luz looked round to see the woman sitting on the man’s lap. “I told them ‘not here please’”, and the woman moved back to her seat. But a few minutes later, it happened again—Delgado could see the woman had her skirt hitched up—and she told them to get out of the taxi. They did so with no problem and paid their fare to that point, going on their way apparently unperturbed. But, Delgado admitted, “It was horrible for me.”

Other than that, her experiences of taxi-driving at night are positive. There are some areas where she switches off her green light and locks the doors because she knows they’re dodgy and isn’t interested in getting fares there. And she has a fail-safe way to deal with those clients who ask her out for a drink (“My boss is working near here, I can’t leave the car.”). But, she has no plans to change to a day shift.

For one thing, there’s a lot more traffic and noise. “Oh, and the mopeds and bikes!”

Twenty-four hour Barcelona “When I was a little girl, taxis always caught my eye, and when I arrived here, 10 years ago now, I thought it was great to see women driving taxis.” She was working in the hotel trade and finally it was friends who, having heard her wax lyrical many times about female taxi drivers, motivated her to sit the test to become one herself. “When I called my mother in Colombia to tell her, first she said ‘Oh, madre mia!’ And then ‘At last!’ When I asked what she meant, she said ‘as you always used to tell me “look mami, at the women in the taxis”, I knew one day you would call to tell me you’re a taxi-driver.’”

Delgado started working the night shift because that was what she was first offered having got her licence. She points out that other women, if they have a family and children, can’t really work at night, but she’s single and is happy to work those hours. Her typical day sees her arrive home around 7am and go to bed about 7.30. She sleeps until early afternoon and then does various tasks and errands until

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Línia Rosa - 24-hour taxi service exclusively for women. Telephone reservation necessary. Tel. 93 330 0700.

Metro - open all night on Saturdays and for certain special events, e.g. Sant Joan and La Mercè. Otherwise, there’s always the Nit Bus. OpenCor - various locations; convenience store owned by El Corte Inglés that opens until 1 or 2am, depending on the venue.

The Bakery - Bolivía, 340; ideal for early-morning croissants.

Velódromo - Muntaner 213; bar that opens at 6am with a fine choice of dishes featuring fried egg and chips (huevos estrellados).

Wok to Walk - Sant Pau 27 and Jaume I, 7; restaurant and takeaway of freshly cooked wok dishes that is open until 3.30am.

Workcentre - Avinguda Diagonal 437; 24-hour copy centre offering various services such as binding, business supplies and printing.

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ONE FOR THE ROAD Barcelona was once known for its booming after-hours scene but tougher regulations have meant that many clubs have shut down. So, is it still possible to party until dawn? By Kati Krause. Photos by Lorna Palmer.

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t really all started the day the Berlin Wall fell. On November 9th, 1989, as Berliners started chiselling away at the wall separating their city, a new club opened in Mataró. We don’t know whether the people attending the opening party that night were

aware of the historic events happening a few thousand kilometres north. However, they themselves were involved in something rather historic at the time: this new club, Xassís, would—together with others—lay the foundation for a new kind of club scene in and

around Barcelona, lasting into the 2000s.

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This club scene was based on merciless electronic music, drugs and the assumption that the party never ended.

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was the era of the after-hours club.

These clubs sprang up in and around Barcelona in the early Nineties. Places like Ocho, Psicódromo, Cholita, Chikita and KGB (which would rise to fame 10 years later with the residency of DJ Amable, who was then still playing at L’Hospitalet’s Depósito Legal and would become one of the faces of the Barcelona after-hours club scene) attracted people with their stomach-churning bass from dawn ‘til dusk.

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In 2001, Matinée Group got a contract to run the Thursday morning sessions at Space in Ibiza. That same year, the group opened what for many years was to be Barcelona’s number one after-hours club: Souvenir, located in Viladecans and flanked by the Madness Group’s Merci.

Carlos García, a former employee at Discothèque in Poble Espanyol (now The One) and founder of a forum to commemorate Barcelona’s legendary clubs, nostalgically recalls the parties of those days. “When we got out of La Terrrazza or Discothèque, the Matinée Group coach would already be waiting. Entering Souvenir was like stepping into another dimension. It was like a big family, it was all about the good vibe and the music made you vibrate. It was impressive to see hundreds of people with their hands in the air singing along to ‘Searching for the Golden Eye’ or ‘Desert Rose’. It would give me goose bumps.”

In fact, you didn’t even have to travel out of town: after-hours clubs like Lokotron, Repú-

blica, Big Nau and Penélope were afters clubs located right in Barcelona, between the upper areas of Avinguda Diagonal and Poblenou.

Distrito Distinto used to be a legendary after hours club in El Clot, on Avinguda Meridiana—right next to a comisaría of the Guardia Urbana. “I have no idea how that could work,” said Christian Schärmer, an Austrian graphic designer, VJ and lover of electronic music, who moved to Barcelona in 2000 and immediately immersed himself in the afterhours club scene. “Distrito Distinto was like a Berlin club: four rooms, dark, run-down—I think one room even had a mud floor—and music so loud it would make your ears ring. It was also located in the middle of a residential area. And it closed down around 2001.”

Trying to explain the rise of afters clubs in Barcelona is to engage in chicken-and-egg reasoning. However, a few factors are obvious: a predilection for hard electronic music, the popularity of recreational drugs, speed and ecstasy, a hedonist mentality and the leniency of the authorities.

The demise of the after-hours clubs began when the Ayuntamiento started paying more attention to licences and neighbours’ complaints about noise. The current legal situation is unclear in issues concerning licences; there is no explicit licence for an after-hours club. Bars that open at 5 or 6am often (and sometimes unwillingly) turn into afters bars, like El Reloj or El Rincón del Artista. But in general, whoever wants to run a late night establishment these days face high fines and trouble with the law.

As a consequence, the afters scene has become a lot more subdued since 2005. You can still go out after clubs close at 5am—just don’t expect a big party. Today, it’s mainly after-hours bars instead of clubs. Pipa Club still stays opens until after sunrise; Papillon still sends its wired security guys into the little alleyways off Carrer Princesa to pick up party-goers looking for this mythical bar (and to make sure they don’t cause too much racket during their search). There are places like El Armario, Red Rocket, La Flor del Norte, and a nameless afters bar off Plaça George Orwell. What all these have in common is that the music is low (if there is any), the beer expensive—and that you can never count on them being open.

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Interestingly enough, the heavy fines don’t seem to discourage bar owners keeping their venues open longer than their license—or any licence—permits. A waitress at the club Sidecar in Plaça Reial tells that both Malpaso and the Pile 43 cocktail bar, located in the same area, now open after hours, too. “It’s the crisis,” she ventured. “Some bars now open late to attract more business.”

On the club side, Souvenir continues to operate as an after-hours club on Sunday and holiday mornings. However, it’s the only after-hours venue left in the Matinée Group, which now limits itself to organising parties that try to maintain the group’s original spirit—for example, at Row14, a huge and partly open-air club celebrating electronic music of the ravier kind (it’s run by the creators of the Monegros Desert Festival). Merci, also in Viladecans, and run by The Madness Group, continues to operate as an after-hours, too.

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ters left in Eixample, namely Seven Crowns and 242. They, too, have had to turn the music down quite a bit, however, and now resemble bars rather than proper clubs. If you seek that party feeling at 9am, you’ll have to make a trip to Poblenou, where you’ll find the recently opened La Camara, which stays open until 11am, and La Nave, an old-school rave club on Pere IV, that remains open until about the same time. The latter, however, operates as a members-only club, so you’ll have to try your luck at the door.

Christian Schärmer, for one, has stopped going to after-hours clubs. “In part it’s because I now have regular working hours, but the main reason is that afters clubs have become boring. There are no afters clubs that allow you to calmly continue the party—all you can do is get really fucked.”

And now that even Ibiza has introduced legislation limiting its clubs’ opening hours, we may just be witnessing the end of it all.

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STARS IN THEIR EYES Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences but still attracts people interested in all things celestial.

By William Truini.

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he fat, short telescope swivels with electronic precision, its GPS system automatically searching for a specific patch of the night sky. The small group of astronomers, some amateur, some professional, stand nearby, talking in hushed tones of recent astronomical sightings. After the telescope finds its quarry, the assembled group take turns examining the hazy, white form through the eyepiece. The veterans are well familiar with the sight. It is the Andromeda galaxy, two and a half million light years away, the closest and best known of the spiral galaxies.

While Andromeda can also be seen with the naked eye, it is intriguing to view it through a powerful telescope. It’s as though your eye has taken an enormous, effortless

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leap through the vastness of interstellar space. And the thrill of the sighting makes you want to see more.

Luckily, anyone with the slightest inclination to explore such mysteries of the night sky will find considerable support for their curiosity in and around Barcelona. Stargazing, in fact, has long enjoyed passionate interest in Catalunya. Indeed, according to some experts, the region’s pre-historic dolmens, some of which date back 3,000 years, were placed according to precise astronomical observations. In more modern times, Catalunya pioneered Spain’s first astronomical societies, the earliest of which were founded here more than a hundred years ago.

In Barcelona, one such club is Aster,

founded in 1948 with the aim of bringing modern astronomy closer to the general public. The club, which has about a hundred members, stages monthly outings to observe celestial wonders.

“We head out to the hills of Pujalt in Alt Anoia and set up our telescopes there,” explained Vincenç Castellote, Aster’s librarian. “Other times we simply go up to the grounds of the castle of Montjuïc or, for daytime observations of the sun, we set up a telescope by the Nova Icaria beach.”

Aster offers classes on a range of subjects from ‘astronomy for beginners’ to ‘urban astro-photography’, and occasional talks are also given by members or guests in their field of expertise. The classes, in Catalan or Castilian, are open to everyone, although

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Nocturnal outings are generally staged for members, but non-members will certainly not be turned away.

“We’re not an exclusive club,” Castellote recently told Metropolitan. “Members usually bring their own telescopes to the outings and if anyone else happens to show up, they’re welcome to join us.”

Aster’s dedicated members have made the news a number of times. In their prime, when they had their own small observatory in the dome of a building on Passeig de Gràcia, they were briefly famous for being the first amateurs to pick up radio signals from the Russian Sputnik satellite in 1957.

In 1989, they also gained international recognition for discovering eruptions occurring on Jupiter’s Southern Equatorial Band.

A considerably larger and even more active astronomy club is the Agrupación Astronómica in the town of Sabadell. Founded by four amateur astronomers in 1960, the club has since grown to become Spain’s largest and most respected amateur astronomy association.

A good deal of the club’s success lies in the fact that one of Sabadell’s most esteemed mayors, Antoni Farres, ceded prime space to the club on the crowning hill of the city (in what is now the Parc de Catalunya) to build a modern observatory, which opened in 1993.

The Sabadell observatory boasts a 50-centimetre-diameter reflector telescope (which uses mirrors) and two smaller refractor telescopes (which use lenses). The powerful telescopes are at the disposal of the club’s more than 1,000 members, who simply have to reserve a time to use them. Non-members are also welcome to participate in the association’s numerous activities.

Albert Morrel, a professional astronomer and one of the club’s three full-time employees, told Metropolitan that many of the members form research groups according to their interests.

“On Wednesday nights, we have a group that studies ‘blasars’, which are black holes located in the centre of galaxies, and they share their results with an Italian astrono-

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my group. On Thursdays, meanwhile, there is another group that studies asteroids.”

In terms of asteroids, in fact, the Agrupación Asociación de Sabadell has discovered two of these in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which are now internationally (and perhaps universally) known as ‘Sabadell’ and ‘Oliver Cabasa’, the latter being one of the club’s oldest and most enthusiastic members.

The Sabadell club maintains an informative website which, among other things, offers a live webcam connection twice a month to its telescope so that web users can observe

Luckily, anyone with the slightest inclination to explore the mysteries of the night sky will find considerable support for their curiosity in and around Barcelona.

celestial goings-on practically in real time at home on their computers. The observatory itself also houses a small museum of old telescopes and a huge, hand-drawn map of the moon by English astronomer, Hugh Percy Wilkins. Its library, meanwhile, contains a sizeable collection of old astronomy books from the 18th to the 20th centuries, as well as more modern reference material.

Like Aster, the club stages weekly scientific talks, from theoretical physics to ancient astronomy techniques and practically everything in between.

Back in Barcelona, astronomy buffs, or anyone who simply enjoys a good view, will be pleased to find the Observatori Fabra, located on Tibidabo. Built in 1904 by the architect José Domenech i Estapá (known as the ‘bad-boy’ of Modernisme for his anti-

establishment tendencies), the Modernista observatory houses the original, seven-metre-long, 38-centimetre-diameter telescope, one of the last such instruments still in use and a veritable jewel of early 20th-century craftsmanship.

From June to September, the Observatori Fabra hosts dinners on its outdoor terrace, which are followed by a tour of the observatory and sightings of some of the night sky’s more brilliant objects. Scientific talks on a range of subjects also occasionally accompany these dinners.

Although the Fabra observatory is now devoted almost entirely to educational initiatives, it, like the Sabadell association, has opened up a scientific research observatory in Àgers in Montsec near Lleida. The sparsely populated area is also home to the Centre d’Observació de l’Univers (COU), a large astronomy complex dedicated to didactic activities, including the remarkable ‘Eye of Montsec’, which combines a digital, multimedia planetarium with direct observations of the night sky.

In Barcelona, another essential resource for anyone looking to peer into the abyss is Raig, a small but fully stocked shop of telescopes and other optical and meteorological instruments, located at the top of the Rambla.

In business since 1926, the shop is one of the few remaining family-owned enterprises left in the immediate vicinity of Plaça Catalunya. Raig’s manager, Asunción Faus, told Metropolitan that the shop sells at least one telescope every day and sometimes many more. An avid astronomer herself, Faus can help the beginner grasp the differences between the considerable range of telescopes on display.

“Essentially, it comes down to what you want to see,” Faus explained. “Some telescopes are better for observing planets, others for dimmer objects like galaxies, others for taking photographs.”

Prices range from a modest €100 on up to…well, the sky’s the limit. For a fully automated electronic telescope with a GPS tracking system, prices start at 1,500.

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Morrel advised budding astronomers to first discover what their interests are, what objects in the infinite reaches of space most attract them, before investing in a specific type of telescope.

“Generally, it’s best to begin with brighter objects, like planets or the moon, and then move on from there,” Morrel advised. “The farthest object I’ve seen is a quasar, some 10 billion light years away.”

Agrupació Astronòmica de Barcelona (Aster) - Aragó 141 Tel. 93 415 9683 www.aster.org Agrupación Astronómica de Sabadell Tel. 93 725 5373 www.astrosabadell.org Observatori Fabra www.observatorifabra.com Els Sopars amb Estrelles from June 18th until September 22nd.

Reservations are necessary: call 902 109 230 Raig - Pelai 62 Tel. 93 318 8547 Photo courtesy of Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell

Some facts about space: - The largest meteorite found on Earth was in Namibia and weighed 60 tons.

On average, a human being is hit by a meteorite once every 9,300 years.

- Venus spins in the opposite direction to Earth and most other planets; so there, the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East.

- NASA became operational on October 1st, 1958, one year after the Russians had succesfully launched Sputnik 1.

- Flour tortillas have been eaten on board the US space shuttles since 1985 as they offer a good solution to the problem of bread crumbling (which can get into instruments and cause issues).

- Mars has mountains that are much higher than Mount Everest. The Romans gave the planet its name (after their god of war) because they associated the reddish colour of Mars with war and blood.

- It has taken NASA’s Voyager 126 years to travel from Earth to the edge of our solar system.

- Asteroids are made up of rock and iron, while comets are mainly formed from rock and ice, and also have a tail. The first asteroid was discovered in 1801. It takes comets on the edge of the solar system 300 million years to travel around the sun.

Observatori de Sabadell. Photo courtesy of Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell

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any know La Rambla del Poblenou as the main artery that breathes life into a once rundown industrial area. Venture off it and you’ll find Carrer Marià Aguiló, named after the Mallorcan Renaissance poet Marià Aguiló i Fuster. Take a stroll down the street and you’ll find a juxtaposition of what Poblenou once was, and what it’s becoming. In recent years the neighbourhood’s streets have become lined with restaurants and shops catering to the younger, more fashionable families that have moved into the area.

Luca Ravagnani and his partner Jorge Rodríguez, who own the Bagoa boutique (nº. 115), understand this recent transformation. With a range of fashionable designer brands and an elegant interior that boasts chandelier lighting and a marble bathtub that is part of the counter, it is clear they are speaking the language of a newer generation. “Many customers tells us our shop could very well be positioned in Passeig de Gràcia,” commented Ravagnani.

Just opposite Bagoa you’ll find Vinoteca (nº. 120), a winery founded a

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year ago by Catalan David Perramon. Not only does it offer a wide selection of wine and cava from the vineyards of Catalunya and other parts of Spain, but also different wine-tasting courses, suitable both for enology experts and occasional wine drinkers. Small groups can elect to take an introductory wine-tasting course hosted by a sommelier or a two-hour educational talk about wines from particular regions of Spain. Perramon is not stopping there; the businessman is planning to diversify his range of wines to include other parts of the world in a bid to appeal to tourists and locals alike. Sharing Ravagnani’s optimism about the area, Perramon said “It may take five years or 10, but Poblenou is changing.” One of his most memorable moments? Opening day, when a group of French people, after discovering it online, turned up at Vinoteca before the doors had even opened.

You’ll find it hard to miss the window display of MamaVaca (nº. 114), a children’s shop with a giant plastic cow at the door inviting customers in. In truth, MamaVaca is much more than a place to buy items for your

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children; the shop offers a variety of courses and meetings for both mothers and expectant mothers, from pregnancy yoga classes to courses on homeopathy.

If you’re looking for some tasty Spanish tapas and a cerveza or two, El Granuja­(nº. 99), which means little rascal, can deliver. A self-proclaimed “modest neighbourhood bar” run by local Jordi Almonacid, the greatest attribute of this bar is its friendly and helpful staff, whose amicable nature makes it a local favourite. As one employee put it, “It’s great just to get to know the neighbours.” Popular with the regulars are the paella, oxtail stew, pig trotters and, according to one customer, “the exquisite house flan is not to be missed!”

Further down the street and you’ll find an eatery of a different type than those typically found on Marià Aguiló. With its bright interior and funky

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walls, A’rogueira (nº. 50) is a Galician restaurant with a fun atmosphere where you can sample fresh cut meats and seafood that come directly from Galicia. Special dishes include the chuletón (T-bone steak), almejas (clams) and pulpo (octopus).

Additional dining options can be found along the road. El Maipor (nº.

24), a restaurant distinguishable by the writing on its display window sits opposite its sister restaurant El Timbal (nº. 22). Both locations offer an intimate ambiance where dishes like morro frito (fried pig’s snout) or las migas al estilo Granada (a dish made from stale bread crumbs) are big hits with regulars. “We are a small, modest restaurant that focuses on quality,” said El Timbal manager Jordi García. Modesty seems to be a common thread tying together the businesses that are found along the Carrer Marià Aguiló.

A family affair Wander to the end of Marià Aguiló and you’ll discover La Pubilla del Taulat (nº. 131), a local and deeply traditional bar and restaurant that opened its doors in 1886.

Co-owned by chef Miguel López and floor manager Toni, the bar is renowned for its excellent seafood and tapas and personable service, a reputation which the venue has maintained for over a century. Miguel, it seems, was destined to work at La Pubilla del Taulat: in 1969, Miguel’s father, Angel, after years of restaurant experience, took over as head chef, and in course, taught his son how to become an excellent cook in his own right.

Sitting next door is La Bodega of La Pubilla del Taulat, run by Miguel’s brother Jesus López, a man well versed in wine, cava and spirits. When dining at the restaurant, customers are advised on the best wine to bring out the flavours of their chosen dishes, for example, a crisp white to enjoy with steamed mussels or a rich red to wash down a plate of Iberian ham and Manchego cheese. In the Fifties, La Pubilla del Taulat was famed for its clams but nowadays there are many other dishes that locals can’t get enough of. Favourites include gambas saladas (salted prawns), and bravas covered by a sauce so popular it often has customers requesting the recipe.

Another traditional success are the skewers of garlic prawns accompanied by a house vermouth. In a neighbourhood that has seen much hardship, La Pubilla del Taulat’s longevity speaks volumes both about the area and the dishes it serves.

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Paris-born artist Gil J. Wolman was a key member of the Lettrist group, a precursor to the Situationist movement, and inventor of the megapneumie, a poem of breath and pure sound.

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27th Aerosmith are back on the road with the catchily titled ‘Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour’. After rumours of them looking for a new singer, the irreplacable Steven Tyler et al are here again, older, wiser, more craggy of face, but back on stage together.

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Born in Montreal but of Haitian descent, Melissa Laveaux’s unique finger-style guitar playing and soulful vocals have won her numerous fans and seen her tour the world.

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Who’s on Megadeth: Razzmatazz, June 1st Alicia Keys: Palau Sant Jordi, June 2nd, 8.15pm Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings: Bikini, June 3rd, 9pm Hadouken: Razzmatazz, June 5th God is an Astronaut: Bikini, June 5th, 8.30pm Rx Bandits: Apolo [2], June 6th, 8pm Cypress Hill: Razzmatazz, June 10th Crowded House: Razzmatazz, June 24th Kiss: Palau Sant Jordi, June 24th Chris isaak: l’Auditori, June 30th, 8.30pm

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he multi-faceted Festival de Barcelona, better known as the Grec, raises anticipation amongst some foreign residents of summer cultural events in their own language. Unfortunately, the 2010 festival is not full to brimming with special treats for the English speaker (the invited country is Japan); however, there are enough language-neutral items on the programme for most people to find something to get their teeth into.

For events in English, the musical section is your best bet, with UK singer Corinne Bailey Rae presenting her second album and US jazz musicians Joe Lavano, McCoy Tyner and Dee Dee Bridgewater all performing—all four can be seen in the splendid surrounds of the Teatre Grec. in theatre, director Bijan Sheibani (last seen at the Grec in 2008 with his acclaimed The Brothers Size) returns this year with Eurydice, showing in English with Catalan subtitles at the Teatre Lliure, a neat inversion of what is generally on show the rest of the year at this venue. The new interpretation of Orpheus and Eurydice, combining elements of

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Greek mythology and Alice in Wonderland, is written by US dramaturge Sarah Ruhl.

The dance programme has various interesting propositions: Turkish contemporary choreographer Aydin Tekir presents harS, which creates a synergy between solo dancer Aysé orhon and a harp; orhon is adept at both dance and the instrument. Wild Cursive is a new production from Taiwanese group Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, based on Chinese caligraphy. other recommendations include: surreal Japanese musical project, Maywa Denki; El fil de Latung La La, which is officially in the theatre section, although there is no actual text in this piece that is dominated by the colour orange and the visual poetry of director David Ymbernon; and Öper Öpis, a circus act featuring acrobats and dancers performing on a continually tilting stage.

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n its 17th season, Sónar, the International Festival of Electronic Music and Multimedia Art, returns to Barcelona to celebrate three of the longest days of the year. On June 17th, 18th and 19th, the city will crawl with techno-maniacal festival-goers who’ve come to see both the crème de la crème of electronic culture and some of the best newcomers on the scene: the Chemical Brothers one night; a relatively unknown DJ set the next. Sónar is a three-day assault on your senses, but not just for the music—with new media artworks an important underpinning of all things Sónar, get ready for multimedia projections and light shows that enliven these concerts with mystifying and theatrical visuals.

With a three-day pass you’ll see it all, but even a single day or night ticket will get you in to experience some of the world’s most technologically advanced musicians and artists. To make the most out of your 2010 Sónar experience, here is a taste of what you can expect to see away from the main line-up.

Arguably one of this year’s most dramatic events will be the Jónsi show on Sónar’s last night, June 19th.

The music of Jónsi, the side project of Sigur Rós frontman Jón Þór Birgisson, is described by Sónar as ‘baroque pop’, an apt description if Birgisson’s day job is any indication. If the music is not enough of a pull, take a look online at the preview videos of Jónsi’s concert setup. He’s teamed up with 59 Productions, a UK-based production company that specialises in multimedia design for live performance. Jónsi’s music, evocative and influenced by nature and the magical, will be personified by 59’s elaborate construction and lighting scheme. This is going to be some wicked theatre.

Also consider Japó, an unexpected creative collaboration between Barcelona’s own Auditori instrumental group, bcn216, and experimental DJ and sound artist, Cristian Vogel. Vogel will man the visuals (with some help from local technology wizard Ricard Marxer and new media artist Óscar Sol), while bcn216 perform a repertoire based on the concept of Japan. Note that this special performance will take place at l’Auditori de Barcelona on Thursday, June 17th—tickets for all Sónar events that take place at l’Auditori must be purchased separately.

Sónar has joined creative forces with the Grec Festival de Barcelona, the annual celebration of theatre, dance, music and the circus arts, to bring a particularly exciting creative event to the city—one that will surely impact all of its dwellers and visitors. Head over to the Teatre Grec, or look south to Montjuïc on the night of the 17th, when Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda will present both a light installation, ‘Spectra (barcelona)’, and an audiovisual show, ‘Test Pattern (live set)’. The first, visible from all parts of the city, will cast an enormous column of light into the sky. Ikeda’s ‘Test Pattern’ will shine flickering lights that respond to a mathematical soundscape onto the Teatre Grec gardens.

So if you’re all signed up for the, as always, impeccable musical line-up, do remember you could also be lucky enough to witness some of the most forward thinking audio-visual artists at work this year. -- Sara Blaylock

Sónar June 17th, 18th and 19th Various venues www.sonar.es

A prophet returns

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ob Dylan is many things to many people. A poet, liberal, singer-songwriter and doyen of Sixties’ counterculture. His name and career achievements are a feature on many lists; his song

‘Like a Rolling Stone’ was named number one in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of all Time and Dylan himself was included on the Time 100 list of the Most Important People of the Century.

Coming from a smal-town beginning, he crossed America, answering the call of New York City, where he settled in Greenwich Village. Within two years, he was already commanding that people sit up and pay attention to his angry, protest songs delivered with a venom about what he saw as the ills of a sick world.

Dylan has travelled the course of life in the guises of folk musician, poet, novelist, rhythm and blues

performer, Christian and leader.

Quoted as saying that at times during his life the only place he was happy was on stage, his Never Ending Tour is perhaps a testament to this sentiment. Started in 1988, the tireless performer has played over 100 dates every year for the entirety of the two decades, racking up, at the end of 2009, over 2,200 concerts. Apart from a recent hitch when plans to play China this year fell through due to his radical past, his tour and the music go on.

Bob Dylan June 24th, 9.30pm Poble Espanyol

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ost artists seek immortality through their work. Perhaps no photographer was more aware of the fleeting nature of life and its pleasures—and the difficulties of capturing its memorable qualities for posterity—than the ‘amateur’ shutterbug, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986).

Although Lartigue was acknowledged by the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a 1963 retrospective, he remained unrecognised by his French compatriots until an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 1975, while this is the first Spanish show of his work.

During his affluent youth, Lartigue embraced the exciting technological advances of the early 20th century, from racecars to biplanes. He was afforded intimate looks at skaters in Chamonix, skiers in St. Moritz and swimmers in Biarritz and Nice. But his world is not one of staid dilettantes. Instead his subjects levitate down a stairway in Paris; they pirouette in the air over breaking waves; and they appear as ghostly multiple images of themselves.

“Since my youth,” Lartigue wrote, “I have been plagued by a kind of illness. All of the things that fascinate me disappear without my being able to hold onto them sufficiently in my memory.” Blurred figures of people and dogs sail through the air, most effectively presented as 3D stereopticons. Crisp stop-action shots freeze a racing athlete during the split-second thrill of the moment. His palette is a resolute black and white, although he did experiment with colour for a few years.

Lartigue was a compulsive record-keeper who wrote tidy daily notes about his life and work throughout his long career. The archivists of Lartigue’s work are thus given the gift of being able to pinpoint the date and location of an image as abstract as two seagulls gliding against a grey sky.

Several decades of work appear to be missing from the exhibition, after the viewer has examined hundreds of photos that represent Lartigue’s most fervent creativity in the Twenties and Thirties. But a poignant epilogue to the life of the man who tried to grasp the ephemeral appears on the last wall of the exhibition, where two 1980 self-portraits from his old age hang quietly. In each, a silhouetted form appears on the ground where the shape of the photographer’s own body has blocked the sun. He titled them, While I still have a shadow. -- Will Shank Will gave this show four out of five stars.

Un món flotant—Fotografies de Jacques Henri Lartigue CaixaForum Until October 3rd

A TALE OF THREE CITIES

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ou may wonder what these three cities have in common besides the Catalan language but the curators of ‘Barcelona-València-Palma, Una història de confluències i divergèngies’ dissect their similarities in the type of exhibition that the CCCB does best: a close look at urbanism, sociology and human behaviour.

The show considers the good, the bad, and the ugly from the historical evolution of the three cities, dividing the content into six sections: The City of the Future, Language, The Spectacle City, The Ugly City (Urban Planning, Corruption and Tourism), The Hedonistic City and The Medieval City. The various views take the visitor from the Dark Ages through to 2085 with a projection of what the cities might become, if we take care of them…or if we don’t.

Major events, like Barcelona’s 1992 Olympic Games and two recent America’s Cups in Valencia, have contributed to the cities’ prestige and dynamism but they’ve all seen their historic centres crumble almost to ruins, then pull back from the brink in the nick of time in order to revitalise their urban core. But decay and corruption remain ongoing problems. The galleries dedicated to language, while perhaps the least visually oriented section, hold some remarkable data about Catalan, which has been around since at least the 13th century. Recent waves of immigration notwithstanding, all three cities officially have two languages. What can we learn from such an exhibition? The curators direct our urban planners to make the most of our assets and to use our tourist attractions wisely, while respecting the historical fabric that makes these three cities unique. -- Will Shank Barcelona-València-Palma—Una història de confluències i divergències CCCB Until September 12th

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Something else SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

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he mighty power of football and the bombastic, inescapable tournament that is the World Cup competition has seeped into every aspect of our society. Everywhere you look you’ll find football. The beautiful game has even managed to elbow its way into the minds organising Ilu·station. Awed by the graphic force of the game, the festival, which celebrates independent illustration in Barcelona, has taken the major sporting fixture being played this month as the overarching theme for its second edition. Amongst the events, exhibitions and concerts timetabled, Miscelänea gallery are hosting the principal exhibition, entitled, ‘Play·Station’. The collective show invited international and local illustrators to design their own super-player to play in a paper World Cup; see Catalan artist Maxi Luchini’s offering below. Alongside ‘Play·Station’, there will be complementary exhibitions on the same theme, and the chance to meet some of the artists at one of the programmed workshops where you can pick their brains and talk drawing. The weekend mercado (12th and 13th) is perhaps the programme’s main highlight. Over the two days you can purchase some of the artists’ works, witness them at work at the live demonstrations, enjoy art projections and get your hands on fanzines, t-shirts and books.

Ilu·station June 3rd to 13th Miscelänea www.ilustation.blogspot.com

PORTUGUESE PARTY

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he fourth edition of Portugal Convida takes place this month with a mix of cultural offerings from Spain’s next-door neighbour. The festival runs for a week and takes in architecture, photography, music and cinema. The first event is an exhibition to be held at the Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña (COAC), featuring the work of Portuguese architects Aires Mateus, Ricardo de Carvalho and Joana Vilhena, amongst others. The second exhibition on the programme is based on the photography collections of two Portuguese institutions, BES Photo and the Museu de Serralves. Cinematic offerings come in the form of Portuguese director António Pedro Vasconcelos, with the Alexandra cinema screening his recently released romantic comedy A Bela e o Paparazzo. The music side of things is taken care of by Razzmatazz, which plays host to pop group X-Wife and DJ Dezperados. The week ends with a special party including a concert by perpetual sunglasses wearer Pedro Abrunhosa.

Portugal Convida June 7th to 12th Various venues www.portugalconvida.net

WHAT’S MORE: Also on this month is the Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona (June 10th to 20th). The festival promises over 40 films made by some of the most inspiring women film-makers from across the globe. Screening this year is the latest documentary from Chantal Akerman, À l’est avec Sonia WiederAtherton, and the latest film by Bette Gordon, one of America’s best-known women directors, Handsome Harry is also showing. Joan Braderman presents her new work The Heretics and Sally Potters’s Rage, starring Jude Law and Dame Judi Dench, will also feature. Various venues; www.mostrafilmsdones.cat

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The search for perfection

like Carmela Soprano shelling their prawns with a knife and fork and paunchy old guys eating alone with big pinkie rings and Marca for company.

Similarly, there’s absolutely nothing avant-garde or adventurous about the food here—just traditional, heavy dishes that leave you feeling like you’ve swallowed a Hadron collider. Naturally, fried foods dominate the starters so we went with the flow and ordered a selection of fregits. This can often be a horror house of UFOs (Unidentified Fried Objects) but Elche’s were well above average and are best described in terms of what they were not: the bunyols (cod fritters) were not empty balls of doughy batter; the calamar (squid) rings did not have the texture of cable insulation; the ham croquetes were not tubes of floury paste. The prawns had been coated in some kind of nasty orange food colouring but the flesh inside was actually tender and sweet with a good bite. The only disappointment were the xipirons (baby squid), which were rubbery, cold and not salty enough. We washed it all down with a Martivillí Verdejo from Rueda (€14), which is perfect for cutting through fried food with its fresh aromas of green fruit and citrus and that typical long bitter finish that comes from Verdejo grapes.

The rice menu was fairly short and had a few tempting options such as rice with cod and porcini, or rice with chicken and sausage topped with a crust of egg au gratin. But we were not to be distracted and went straight for the arròs negre d’Elx with baby squid and artichokes (€14.50 per person). After the waiter’s weary flourish of a paella pan the size of the Millennium Falcon, we were served with two glistening black mountains of rice and promptly tucked in.

In some restaurants, ordering black rice can be like ordering a salt lick—chefs often ignore the fact that squid ink is already quite salty on its own—but here it ***Elche, Vila Vilà 71, Tel. 93 441 3089, www.restaurantelche.com was just right. Elche’s black rice is one of those slowOpen: Mon-Thurs 12.45-4.30pm, 8pm-midnight; Fri 12.45-4.30pm, 8pmrelease wow factor dishes. The more you have the more 12.30am; Sat 12.45pm-12.30am; Sun 12.45pm-midnight. you want, and the mouth-feel is so deliciously unctuous Three courses à la carte around €35 a head, including wine and silky that it’s hard not to keep forking it in until the plate is empty. And that is exactly what we did. In short, it’s a carbohydrate coma waiting to happen. A gourmet had heard various things about Elche: that it was a classic from sedative that gave us a post-rice condition of slurred speech, a stagthe Sixties, that it was resting on its laurels, that it was full of gering gait and slow reflexes. tourists, that the waiters were rude but also that it was one of the The dessert menu read well—crème caramel with frozen candy best places in town for rice. The thought of finding the perfect arròs floss sauce or cinnamon sorbet with wild strawberries and white negre won out and I decided to try it anyway. chocolate—but the idea of dessert was anathema at that stage. So in Elche certainly has the feel of a classic: comfortable and smartish summary, the rice is certainly very accomplished but with no socorwithout trying too hard. The seats are chunky and plush, the fittings rat (the coveted crunchy bit on the bottom of the paella pan), it stops are chunky and wooden, the waiters are chunky and jaded. On our short of giving you a foodgasm and besides, the pricing is just a little lunchtime visit there were no tourists at all, but mainly ladies dressed too grabby. The search for the perfect arròs goes on…

This classic restaurant serves traditional and satisfyingly good rice dishes.

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Catalunya’s abundance of this lovely stone fruit came about as a kind of agricultural Plan B after a 19th-century plague of phylloxera destroyed so many of the grape vines. These days many of the popular varieties are bred in line with the growing trend for larger, darker and sweeter cherries, consequently ousting the old indigenous varieties such as the Bord.

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juice and be fleshy and sweet. Tart cherries should be firm, plump, and bright scarlet. Avoid cherries that are hard, small and lighter in colour because they were probably picked before they were ripe. Also avoid soft or sticky cherries with a dull cast and puckered skin since they are probably overripe and will cause fruits in the bowl to rot too.

Since cherries are delicate and easily bruised, store them in a wide, shallow bowl to help distribute the weight. Cover loosely with a clean tea towel to allow for air circulation and keep them from drying out. As

with all berries, do not wash them until you are ready to use them and store them in the coldest part of your refrigerator—remember that cherries can decay more in one hour at room temperature than they can in 24 hours at 0ºC. Apart from eating the delicious red fruit straight from the bowl, other simple ways to enjoy them include poached cherries as a topping for ice cream or cheesecake, or pitted, halved and then lightly pushed into the top of a basic sponge cake or coca mixture before baking.

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*****Blavis, Saragossa 85, Tel. 93 518 2005 Open: Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm; Thurs and Fri 9–11.30pm, closed weekends. Set lunch menú €12.45

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espite having just 14 seats, this pipsqueak of a restaurant is swiftly making a name for itself as a destination lunch spot among clued-in locals.

Chef Marc Casademunt takes a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach to his cooking and simply devises the daily menú according to what looks good in the market that morning. His charming partner Sònia Devesa works the tables and together they dish up an amazing set lunch for €12.45.

Book ahead or prepare to join the people waiting outside on the pavement—the only clue that something special is happening here.

The place itself looks like it has barely been touched since its previous incarnation as the kind of bar where career chain smokers go to play the fruit machine. Decorative features include wrap-around plywood, those pastel-hued wall mirrors so reminiscent of Seventies’ hotel lobbies and speckled grey floor tiles. The only recent additions appear to be two flip-down tables attached to the bar, some leather banquettes with chocolate velvet cushions and some artfully soft lighting. In short, Blavis is not much of a looker.

The starters (you get to choose two out of the three on offer) come together on an oblong ceramic platter and might include a bowl of creamy warm vichyssoise with apple, a mixed salad with shreds of tender quail in escabetx or peeled and roasted aubergines seasoned with just the right amount of sea salt and drizzles of smoky chimichurri. Main courses were even better: a stack of vast and meaty glazed pork ribs with barbecue sauce and the most delectably crispy, crunchy onion rings I’ve ever tasted. The other option was a sculptural timbale of filleted and lightly grilled sardines impeccably laid top-to-tail over a round of trinxat de la Cerdanya (a Catalan take on bubble and squeak.)

Like the rest of the cooking, desserts are not complicated but perfectly executed: a lemon-infused bread pudding, foam of yogurt with red fruits and a punchy vinegar reduction or a stiff and silky chocolate mousse topped with walnuts. Well worth a visit. --NF

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Café – Ice Cream Shop ART I SA4BARRI GÒTIC Margarita Blue 4BARRI GÒTIC Located in the heart of old Barcelona, Margarita Blue has become a classic in the city’s bar scene. Delight in the dishes from the ‘‘Mexiterranean” kitchen, such as a variety of tacos, amazing guacamole, fresh carpaccio and tomates verdes fritos or take pleasure in a drink or cocktail whilst appreciating new music and spectacular shows that alternate between theatre and performance art.

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Highly recommended is the menú de degustación for 26.50, you can try the chef’s selection and Hyderabadi lamb biriyani (succulent lamb and basmati rice cooked with a natural dough seal).

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SHANTI4LES CORTS Shanti (which means peace in Sanskrit) have selected a rich and varied menu comprised of traditional dishes that offer an authentic Indian experience to even the most discerning palettes. Using classic recipes their dishes respect tradition but come with modern presentation. Try their tasting menu for only 24.90 (+IVA).

paprika gourmet4Eixample d Paprika Gourmet, Barcelona’s first Hungarian delicatessen is a treasury of culinary experiences, the shop window a quintessence of Hungarian cuisine. It is conveniently located a block away from the Sagrada Familia. It offers a wide range of salamis, cheeses, jams, honeys and chocolates all in a warm, welcoming environment. In the morning you can have an appetising breakfast with coffee and during the day you can enjoy the delicious “tapas a la húngara” with a glass of wine. Be our guest and taste the world of Paprika Gourmet!

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Indian - Hindu Govinda (VEGETARIAN) 4BARRI GÒTIC A restaurant veteran for 24 years, Govinda specialises in vegetarian Indian cuisine.

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veg world4GRÀCIA Discover a world of sensations in a relaxed and homely atmosphere. Try vegetarian delicacies from all over the world such as delicious bread home-made in a Tandoori oven and south Indian dishes like MASALA DOSA and IDLY. Daily continental and Indian menus, 9.50 inc. Free soup and salad buffet.

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moti mahal4RAVAL Conveniently located between the Rambla de Raval and Paral-lel, Moti Mahal offers an extensive menu of Indian cuisine, including madras and tika dishes, sheek kebabs, traditional soups breads and biryanis. A large variety of vegetarian dishes are also available. House specialities are the clay oven-cooked tandoori dishes and the tofu paneer pakora.

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C/Valencia 454 I Sagrada Familia Tel. 93 231 6015 / 677 594 533 www.restaurantbatik.com Mon-Sat 1pm -3.45pm, Tues-Sat 8.30pm-11.30pm Closed Sun and Mon Evening

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Princesa 234BORN Princesa 23 prides itself on their friendly, multilingual and attentive staff, service rarely enjoyed in Barcelona. The kitchen provides a range of international food including traditional tapas, paella and chef’s specials. Open every day from 12pm.

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Hard Rock Cafe Barcelona offers an inspired, creative ambience with incredible rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia on display. Come and taste authentic American food. Their berbecue entrees slow cooked in the cafe’s hardwood smokers are delicious. Visit the bar to try a premium cocktail and check out the live music and special events on offer. Don’t forget to stop at the Rock Shop for fine, classic, cotton T-shirts or a collectable Hard Rock pin.

Stush & Teng is Barcelona’s first Jamaican restaurant. Enjoy the reggae vibe and Jamaicanbased cuisine in a beautifully sensuous and stylish setting. The lunch and dinner menu include traditional Jerk chicken, salted fish and ackee (a delicious Jamaican fruit with a milky taste). New menu of the day for 9.50 on offer. At midnight, Stush & Teng converts into a laid-back lounge bar with excellent music and a good selection of classic fresh fruit Caribbean cocktails that are a must!

BOLLYWOOD: LET’S PARTY! June 3rd at 9pm, 10 entry, all money being donated to the Vicente Ferrer Foundation Enjoy an “India Night” at Hard Rock presented by the Centro Asana and the Associació Catalana de Bollywood. A special night with live Indian music, live Bollywood dance show, dinner and a drink. Purchase tickets at the Hard Rock Cafe; limited availability.

Plaça Catalunya 21 | Catalunya | Tel. 93 270 2305 | www.hardrock.com/barcelona | Restaurant: SunThurs 11am-2am, Fri, Sat and hol eves 11am-3am | Rock Shop: Sun-Thurs 10am-1.30am, Fri, Sat and hol eves 10am-2am

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C/Rossellò 209 | FFCC - Provença Diagonal | Tel. 93 368 9393 | www.stushandteng.com Mon-Fri 1pm-4pm, 8pm-11.30pm, Sat 8pm-2am

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THai graCia4GRÀCIa A new Thai restaurant has just opened on the edge of Gràcia! Expect authentic ingredients all imported from Thailand and cooked by experienced Thai chefs.

The pad thai, green and yellow curries have excellent subtle flavours. Simply delicious! The special tasting menu for 21 is a huge hit and allows you to try all the exotic dishes Thai Gracia has to offer. An affordable 11 menu del dia is available during the week. The warm hospitality and attention to detail to every dish at Thai Gracia will keep you coming back for more.

C/ Córcega 381 | Metro Verdaguer / Girona Tel. 93 459 3591 | www.restaurante-thai-gracia.com Every day 1pm -4pm 8pm-12am | RV

THai THai4EIXaMPlE E Thai Thai restaurant invites you to taste and enjoy traditional Thai food with tropical ingredients from Thailand prepared by Thai chefs. They specialise in all kinds of Thai curries. Thai Thai has created a delicious tasting menu for only 24 and a fresh menu of the day is on offer for 9.50 during the week.

la HaCienDa4BORn Billing itself as “The Mexican Experience” with hacienda decor and traditional masks adorning the walls, this newly opened restaurant offers special dishes using traditional Mexican recipes with a twist. Recommended are the house specialities molcajete, beef, chicken or veggies sizzling on a volcanic rock with chorizo, avocado and spring onion, or nopalitos gratinados, grilled fillets of cactus - and don’t forget the tequila! There are many types on offer including 4 frozen margaritas and Jimador.

C/Diputació 91 | C/Princep Jordi, 6 | 8pm-12am | RV

Urgell | Tel. 620 938 059 | www.thaithai.es España | Tel. 663 126 398 Every day 1pm-4pm,

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Visit Amaltea vegetarian restaurant, where tasty and healthy meals are served in a welcoming environment. Dishes include cereals, pulses and vegetables, with homemade puddings. The cuisine is creatively international with care taken to ensure all ingredients are fresh and dishes are well balanced. Menu of the day 10.50, night and weekend menu 15.

C/Rec 69 (Born) | Jaume I, Barceloneta | Tel. 933 100 073 | www.lahaciendabarcelona.com Open every day 12pm-3am.

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C/Diputació 164 | Urgell | Tel. 93 454 8613 www.amalteaygovinda.com Mon-Sat 1pm-4pm, Mon-Sat 8.30pm-11.30pm, Closed Sun

vietnamese annapurna4EIXaMPlE E The name of a series of peaks in the Himalayas, Annapurna is a great place to enjoy Nepalese culinary deligths. it serves tasty and aromatic dishes such as grilled meats cooked in a Nepalese tandoor oven as well as a variety of top quality vegetarian dishes.

Try Nepal’s most famous dish, Dal-bhat or drop in for their midday fixed lunch menu during the week for only 9,75.

C/ Paris 161 I Hospital Clinic I Tel. 934 102 947 www.annapurna-restaurant.com I Mon-Sat 12-4pm and 8pm-12am, Clsd Sun I RV

Food&Drink to advertise in this section, please call 93 4514486 or email ads@barcelona-metropolitan.com Take-away piM paM Burger4BORn Quality is of utmost importance making it the best burger and frankfurter take-away in town. Special hamburgers, chicken burgers, bratwurst, frankfurters, home made chips and stroganoff are also available and are all prepared on the premises.

BunBo vieTnaM4BaRRI GÒTIC Satisfy your craving for fresh, healthy Vietnamese food just steps away from the Gothic cathedral. Sit under the leafy trees of the quiet terrace or inside the restaurant which is entirely decorated with bright colourful pieces straight from Saigon. Start with delicious fresh summer rolls, crispy Asian pork lettuce cups, followed by traditional Pho or Bun noodle dishes.

Accompany your meal with a fresh and exotic cocktail like the sakirinha (caipirinha made with sake). The menu of the day is an affordable 10 inside and 11 on the shady terrace.

The kitchen is open non-stop all day.

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beauty health & wellbeing

home services

education

services

business employment

Hairdressers Beauty / Spa Bodywork/Massage Dentists Doctors Chiropractors Hypnobirthing Pharmacy Veterinarian Psychologists / Psychotherapists Martial Arts Dog Care Architecture & Construction Interior Design Building Security Plumbing Real Estate & Accommodation Relocation Transport / Storage / Removals Travel Services Language Schools Piano Lessons Translation Course Computers Design Drinks distributor Electrician Television Services Tax Financial Services Legal Practices Insurance Job Opportunities

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American Dentist

Associate Member of American Dental Association Dr. Joseph de Vilallonga

We Fix Smiles 100% Ceramic Crowns First review at no cost

General Dentistry Implants

Emergency Line

659 443 583

www.clinicavilallonga.com English, Japanese and Spanish spoken

American Dental Association

Calvet, 15 pral. 1ª - 08021 Barcelona • Tel. 93 209 61 21

English Dentist Dr. Nicholas Jones BDSLDSRCS Col. No 4090

FREE CHECK-UPS

General & Cosmetic dentistry Orthodontics Implants & Tooth whitening Smile makeovers Diagonal 281 (Sagrada familia L5/Monumental L2) Tel. 93 265 80 70 / Mob. 607 332 335 Open Monday to Saturday

nickteeth@hotmail.com www.nickteeth.com

Doctors Leila Catherine Onbargi, M.D.

OBSTETRICS and GYNECOLOGY

Centro Medico Teknon American Board Certified C/Vilana, 12 • consulta 161 Barcelona • Tel: 93 393 3161 Email: dr.onbargi@gmail.com www.teknon.es/consultorio/onbargi Fellow, American College OB/GYN Diplomate American Board of OB/GYN

ENGLISH • SPANISH • FRENCH

English Doctor Dr. Steven Joseph

...open monday to saturday

Col nº 38291

BSc, MBBS, DRCOG, MRCGP, MRCPsych (London) Member of the Royal College of General Practioners U.K Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists U.K

General Practice · Mental Health Clinic: Castellnou 47, 08017 BCN Tel: 932 051 903 / 696 664 430 / 636 312 522 Email: tingsvall_ mccarthy@hotmail.com www.tingsvall-mccarthy.com Transport: Station Les Tres Torres (L6) & Bus 16, 30, 66, 70, 72, 74.

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Gran Via Carles III nº-37-39 08028 Barcelona Les Corts

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ULTRAMED Our Doctors can help you improve your health through various natural methods:

Chiropractic Acupuncture Homeopathy Chiro Massage

Please contact us for a free consultation:

www.ultramed.es - info@ultramed.es C/ Bruc 76 - 93 487 9648 Pharmacy

HypnoBirthing

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Psychologists / Psychotherapists

English Speaking and Trained Counsellor and Psychotherapist Help and Support with; • Lack of Energy or Low Self-Esteem • Improving Family and Personal Relationships • Feelings of Anger, Loneliness and Isolation, or Anxiety • Expat Issues and Adapting to, or Preparing for, Change • Achieving a Particular Goal or Finding a New Direction • Changing Unhelpful or Destructive Habits or Patterns of Behaviour

Free Initial 20 minute Introductory Meeting

Jonathan Lane Hooker

Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Coach and Guide Tel: 93 590 7654 • Mob: 639 579 646 • jonathan.hooker@yahoo.com

Martial Arts

Wing Chun is a concept-based system of self defence from southern China, renowned for it’s simple, direct techniques.

Improve both your body and mind.

Find out more at:

www.wongshunleungspain.org Contact David on 617 357 184 or david_615734@yahoo.co.uk Classes every Tuesday & Thursday 7pm - 8.30pm C/ Enric Granados 48, 08008, Barcelona

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Dog Care

Interior Design

Security GRAHAM COLLINS PROPERTY CONSULTANCY INTER IOR DESIGN & DECOR ATION

Locksmith Specialists in security

Puzzled by the property market ?

Need a renovator that speaks your language ?

Want that designed look on an Ikea budget ?

C / CONSULAT DEL MAR 35, 3er BARCELONA t: 0034 678 75 75 11 e: grahamcollins@talk21.com

Building

Lost your keys?

Can´t get in?

Unlocking locks Changing locks Metal shutters Automatic Safety doors Security systems Fences & balconies Access control

Give me a call:

607 88 66 22

24 hours Reasonable rates | English spokenn |

info@mastercerrajeros.com

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Longâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;term Rental Sunny, south facing, furnished 2-bedroom apartment near Barceloneta beach.

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One month deposit.

Suits a couple. Six months minimum.

93 080 2728 / 630 478 152

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Language Schools

¿Español? Say it with us!

Learn Spanish with CEE from 99€ !

- Intensive and regular courses - DELE Exams Preparation - Morning and Evening lessons - Practical and communicative approach - 3, 6, 7.5, 15 and 20 hours/week

New courses starting every month

Enrol today to speak Spanish tomorrow!

CEE, Roger de Llúria 123 (Provença) <M> Diagonal/Verdaguer Tel. 934 880 080 info@cursos.org http://www.cursos.org

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ACELE

Catalan Association of Spanish Language Schools

Your guarantee of high quality service (*) abcCollege www.abccollege.es

Centro Humboldt www.centrohumboldt.com

Enforex www.enforex.com

BCN Languages www.bcnlanguages.com

Don Quijote www.donquijote.org

IH Barcelona www.ihes.com/bcn

(*) All ACELE schools have been accredited by the Cervantes Institute and/or CEELE.

“I really enjoyed the Spanish classes and learned a lot.”

“My Spanish improved rapidly.”

Lene Sandvik Norway

Josephine Tustin Canada

“Small classes!”

Fleur Van de Wijgert Holland

“A warm and friendly environment with great teachers.”

Carol Mallinson Australia

“I’ve learned more Spanish at Speakeasy in 3 weeks than I’ve learned in the US in 3 years.”

Tom Carey USA

“Rewarding and intense.”

Carina Mikka Olsen Denmark

“I’ve learned a lot!”

Anna Tomaszewska Poland

“Very friendly staff, excellent teachers and great location.”

“I’m really speaking Spanish!”

Dionne Jacomello Greece

Merel Fernandes Holland

Spanish lessons from 4€ www.speakeasybcn.com

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Piano Lessons

Spanish Courses

Special summer offer!

• Courses of 10, 20 or 30 hours a week • Classes from 9:00 to 21:00 • Small groups • 8 different levels

TwO weekS juST € 160 (20 HrS/week)

1 month 170€ (10 hours/week)

Learn Spanish at Oxford House

www.oxfordhousebcn.com/languages C/Girona 83, ppal. (C/Aragó)

Translation Course

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1 month 320€ (20 hours/week)

www.bindungbarcelona.com info@bindungbarcelona.com

C/ Ausias March 26 08010 Barcelona 933 115 824

Girona • Tel: 93 458 01 11 • info@oxfordtefl.com

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British qualiied accountants with local solutions

Tax

Traditional accounting and taxation covering both territories Outsourcing Solutions for all sizes of enterprises Cost reduction appraisal Assistance to doing business in either UK or Spain Business development and Strategy Bespoke Services

Legal Practices

www.spectrum-ifa.com

Financial Advice on all aspects of living in Spain from our experienced, regulated and qualified team.

For your free guide to independent financial advice email barcelona@spectrum-ifa.com or phone 93 665 8596

Independent Financial Advisers

Regulated in Spain. Offices also in France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland The Spectrum IFA Group en España – Baskerville Advisers S.L. CIF B-63/137.020 – Correduría de Seguros; Nº de registro RDGS J2306 Paseo de Gracia 63, Principal 2a, 08008, Barcelona - Seguro responsabilidad civil AIG Europe Nº 0131900503.1330 Registro Mercantil de Barcelona, Tomo 35489, Folio 170, Sección 8, Hoja B-269534

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Ambitious, money hungry sales people wanted.

For an english speaking telesales role.

Earn 10,000€ per month, no experience necessary Send cv to: eurosalesrec@live.co.uk

Agents/Distributors wanted: MEGACALL Fast expanding Telecoms business specialising in the S.M.E (PYMES) market are now recruiting sales agents. Monthly recurring income.

Full training given and full office back up.

Send your CV to admin@megacall.es or call 952667511 for more details

Rogamos examine atentamente si los datos que figuran en esta prueba son correctos, especialmente el nombre, dirección, núm prefijos, código postal, etc. Esta prueba no debe devolverla a menos que observe alguna incorección. En este caso, rogamos in en este papel, cuales son dichas incorecciones y nos la remita sellada y fimada, en un plazo inferior a tres días a Barcelona Me de Producción, Enric Granados, 48 Entlo. 2ª, 08008 Barcelona o al fax 93 451 65 37.

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Dear Metropolitan, Nature reserve at risk I was interested to read your cover story last month [‘Barça vs. Nature’]–this really does seem like the dark side of FC Barcelona compared to the great joy they bring their fans, both here and around the world, with their many sporting achievements. Of course, nowadays, we should probably be applauding entrepreneurial spirit in the light of the financial nonsense that’s going on, but such heavy-handedness by an organisation that tries so hard to be right on (‘more than a club’, Unicef sponsorship, etc.) is surely not acceptable.

www.meetup.com/Barcelona-Metropolitan-Readers: join up to find out about all our events.

Regards, Philip Long

Street life success Congratulations on your new-ish Street life feature. It’s definitely been an excellent addition to the magazine especially for people like me who have been here for a couple of years, but tend to stick to the areas I know best, rather than trying to discover new parts of the city. I’ve visited a couple of the places you’ve featured and the surrounding areas and it’s been like visiting a whole new city!

Thanks, Lisa Blackley

Become a Facebook fan of ‘Barcelona Metropolitan’. Our page on Facebook features information about what’s going on in Barcelona, and offers users the chance to share ideas, tips and advice about being a foreign resident here.

Metropolitan events Special activities coming up this month Live music at Margarita Blue Join us on June 8th, from 7pm, once more at Margarita Blue bar (Josep Anselm Clavé 6) for an evening of socialising and live music. You’ll be able to meet other foreign residents and natives of Barcelona, as well as members of the Metropolitan team. Entertainment will be provided by local band Laia Porta and Friends, who’ll take to the stage at 9pm to play their minimalist jazz and blues. Margarita Blue serves a fine range of drinks and cocktails and a great selection of food. For more information, e-mail readers@barcelona-metropolitan.com or join the Metropolitan group on www.meetup.com (Barcelona Metropolitan Readers).

You can also follow us on Twitter— ‘bcnmetropolitan’ posts regular tweets about what’s happening in the city and we’d like to hear about Barcelona from you too.

Parc de la Ciutadella and Barceloneta walking tour The third of the Metropolitan Sunday strolls takes place on June 20th, and combines two areas of the city with an intrinsically interconnected history. Learn about the Ciutadella park’s plighted past and then take in the lively Barceloneta barrio, finishing up at a suitable bar for a Sunday seafood snack.

Meeting time and place: 11.30am at the main entrance to the Parc de la Ciutadella (junction of Passeig de Lluís Companys with Passeig de Pujades). Price: e12.

Places are limited so please reserve by emailing readers@barcelona-metropolitan.com. Payment can be made in cash at the beginning of the tour.

Focus groups Metropolitan regularly organises focus groups about different aspects of the magazine and our website so that we can learn more about what readers and users want. If you would be willing to participate in such a group, it would involve spending a couple of hours with us. Refreshments will be provided. To take part in one of our focus groups, please send an e-mail to readers@barcelona-metropolitan.com saying how long you’ve lived in Barcelona, your country of origin and your age.

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ANNICK, 46 BELGIAN “WE HAVE BEEN TO A NICE RESTAURANT ON THE HARBOUR.”

ELOI, 33 CATALAN “WE’RE GOING TO SEE SOME LIVE MUSIC AT MEDITERRANEO.”

LORENA, 28 CATALAN “WE WILL GO FOR SOME DRINKS ON CALLE BALMES.”

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All over the city. A Friday night. When darkness falls, a new side of the city reveals itself. Crowds of people head out to take advantage of the nightlife but where do they go?

CAROLINE, 21 FRENCH “IT’S GREAT IN RAZZMATAZZ.”

JOAN, 26 SPANISH “TONIGHT WE WILL GO TO OSHUM.””

JOANNA, 25 SPANISH “TONIGHT IS LADIES’ NIGHT!”

DOMINIC, 22 GERMAN “I LIKE TO GO TO PLACES LIKE OPIUM.”

MIRKO, 28 ITALIAN “RAZZMATAZZ IS THE BEST CLUB IN BCN.”

FAIZAL, 23 BRITISH “I´M HAVING A BBQ WITH SOME DUTCH FRIENDS.”

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A selection of the latest classified ads you can see on our website now Accommodation search Apartments wanted in Barcelona for tourist holiday rentals. We need apartments in Barcelona for short term tourist holiday rentals. If you have an apartment and would like to earn an income from it please contact us at info@barcelonaflats.co.uk 3 bed apartment + terrace in central Barcelona/El Borne. Looking for 3 bed+ apartment with terrace around central Barcelona/El Borne for long term rental from July 2010. Contact primettanita@hotmail.com

Long term apartment rentals Attic Apartment Sarria. 30 seconds to metro, 11 minutes Plaza Catalunya. Bonanova with Via Augusta, 3 bedrooms, 2 terraces, renovated kitchen and both bathrooms, furnished. Washer, dryer etc. 2,000 per month: Contact Dennis 605 371 931 or dmarcotte7@gmail.com Barceloneta flat. Sunny, south facing, furnished two-bedroom apartment near Barceloneta beach. 675 euros. One month deposit. Suit couple. Six months minimum. Tel. 630 802 728/630 478 152

Long term room rentals Habitacion en alquiler. CentricaTravessera de Gracia-Paseo Sant Joan. Metro Joanic. L4. Habitacion se alquila en piso a compartir, es interior con ventana, amueblada, wifi, etc. piso tranquilo. Pref. minimo 23 años (edad). Tel 609 30 4928 o manelstrada@hotmail.es.

Room to rent from June. Exterior room. Fully furnished with internet.

Big house, exterior with 2 bathrooms. Underground L1 & L2, several buses, train station Clot. 320 euros plus charges. Tel. 656 865 360.

12sq metre room in family house, Valldoreix, St Cugat. Beautiful garden and bathroom. Ideal for student or a couple. Non smoker. Near Bellatera, Ssade and arquitecture universities. English, German, Italian

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and Spanish spoken. Email alquiler. valldoreix@gmail.com or call Tel. 647 709 093, charly.

Bright spacious room, two balconies, double bed, extra bed, dressing room, wifi. Flat in center area in L’Eixample Esquerra. Ideal couples €60 per day, €950 per month. Included cleaning. Write to: holasoyrosa@ gmail.com 490€ (expenses included) 2 rooms for rent in a “Señorial” apartment in a historical street - (Gótico Borne) In a 120m2 “Señorial” apartment (1890 building in a historical street) in the heart of Gothic neighborhood: I am renting two (2) bedrooms (both double beds with new mattresses & wardrobes) that would be sharing one of the two bathroom. Fully equipped (wi-fi, heating by radiators and all type of amenities) and furnished (high ceilings with original “frescos” and parquet floor) appartment. Working room, living room, dinning room, fully equipped kitchen (with washing–machine). Total of 3 roommates (including me), preferably men, considering that they will be sharing a bathroom. Prices: €490 and €590 (includes wifi, electricity, gas, water, fix phone ), respectively; + € 65 cleaning lady + 1 month deposit required. Two blocks from both Jaume I metro station and Liceo train station, six from Plaza Catalunya and two from Borne… making it short: great logistic location. You can contact me at 605.95.8017 or email me at: mercedes.busaniche@ yahoo.es Mercedes Big double bedroom with balcony / close to Drassanes and Liceu. This room is available immediately for couples (€500) or individuals (€400).

All bills, as well as Wi-Fi Internet, are included in the price. The room has high ceilings, laminate floors and is furnished, ready to move in. There is also a little balcony facing the street. The flat has five bedrooms, a living room with a TV, two bathrooms with showers and a separate kitchen/dining area. The people here are multicultural, both professionals and students. The closest Metro is Drassanes or Liceu, the flat is in a great location, close to the Ram-

blas and Rambla de Raval. For more photos: http://tinyurl.com/2uknxwl Contact: annemw2711@gmx.net / 622283054

Property for sale Rustic house for Sale in Garcia town, near Ebro river. Only €40.000 Old townhouse of 5 levels. Very near the Ebro river, so if you love to fish, this is the place for you. There’s also a campsite in town with its own swimming pool. Less than an hour from Reus airport and 30 minutes to the beach. The house, although very old, is furnished and is habitable.

If you wish to know more details or for photos contact Oriol orioloset@ gmail.com Sitges – Vinyet. Cosy, comfortable apartment is now for sale. English owner returning to UK. 2 bedrooms with fitted wardrobes (1 bedroom currently used as a dining room). Second bedroom access on to rear terrace which overlooks peaceful communal garden. 2 large terraces, front one serves as utility area with large storage cupboard. Two additional storage cupboards on rear terrace. It has full central heating/air conditioning with additional heating facility and ceiling fans in all rooms. Fully fitted kitchen, ceramic hob and oven, washing machine, dishwasher and fridge freezer.

All in excellent working order. Only a few minutes walk to the beach and promenade. The beaches are family friendly, clean and safe. There is an excellent local bus service into the town centre 5 minutes or a 10 minute walk. There is also off road parking included. Lots of extra items for sale at very modest prices, ie iron/ ironing board, new vacuum cleaner, wall mounted tv/dvd in main bedroom, king size bed, terrace table and 4 chairs, plants and plant pots, pots and pans and lots more. Main line telephone with wifi currently installed. First floor apartment. Price: 360,000 euros. Tel. 93 894 6940 or 687 156 460.

Vehicles for sale Vespa 200cc for sale, 1984,black in good condition, 15,000km on clock.

500 euro. If interested and want to see some photos e-mail me at moranhorse@yahoo.co.uk Hurley 9.5 Meridian, New rigging sails excellent all new skin fittings and tubes 50hp Perkins good shape overall and cheap 12.000 Euros British Flag. Lying Port Olimpic call Dennis 605 371 931 or email dmarcotte7@gmail.com pictures can be seen at BPONAUTICA.com

Seeking Squash partners Castelldefels. I am a regular player at club in Barcelona. I have just moved to Castelldefels and want to find local partners to use the courts at Gava for social/ friendly games and a beer. If interested call Kevin 672 041 548 Soulmate. British girl, early thirties, searching for a soulmate. I am sporty, love movies, travelling and world cuisine. I am looking for a native English-speaking guy who is smart, open-minded, fit and a nonsmoker. email: hannah.amber.georgia@gmail.com Software Engineer. Catalan man, 48 years. Looking for girl for friendship and hopefully more. Somebody positive, educated, who loves live music 666601327

Language exchange Language exchange every Wednesday 9.30pm in Bar Baviera, C/ Marina 241, metro: Sagrada Familia, 5 tables, 6 languages English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Catalan so don’t stay at home.

Hello everybody. I’m a 21 year girl student, looking for some language exchange. I’l like to exchange my Catalan and Spanish for English.

My English is a bit rusty, so I need to brush it up a little bit, so please, help me! Contact me here if you wish: mandyhwa @yahoo.com I’m spanish girl searching native English-speaking for exchange. my mail: staring14@yahoo.com

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Parc & Barceloneta walking tour 11.30am, Sunday 20th June

Expecting visitors?

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The beautiful game

H

ere we go again. Six weeks of blanket

dering aloud if you’d look good in lipstick and

more likely to be who has the best actors. Skul-

coverage and disruption, culminating

a short skirt.

duggery, subterfuge and dirty tricks used to be

in a result that some will celebrate but

For Catalan football supporters, the World

the domain of international diplomacy. Increas-

leaves most grumbling about foul play, injustice

Cup represents a major dilemma: who to sup-

ingly they’re an integral part of international

and outright larceny. No, not the British elec-

port. Catalunya would already appear to have a

football. Presumably this is why the World Cup

tions, which appear to be over—for now (though

national team in Barça, but under current rules

trophy looks like an obese, bloated Oscar.

you shouldn’t rule out the possibility of a bunny-

they are ineligible to compete. FIFA, football’s

It already looks as if this will be the Brib-

boiling, Glenn Close-type resurrection just when

governing body, will only accept countries rec-

ery and Corruption World Cup, in the same way

you think it’s all gone quiet). No, it’s something

ognised by the UN and despite repeated repre-

that we’ve just had the Human Rights Olympics

far more important than politics: football.

sentations, the UN has steadfastly—some would

in Beijing. In other words, everyone knows it’s

Yes, just four years after the last outpouring

say obstinately—refused to do so in Catalunya’s

happening, everyone decries it, the host na-

of international disappointment and recrimi-

case. There was talk of the Catalans allying

tion promises to put its house in order, and the

nation, the World Cup is back. For the large

themselves with Andorra, which is officially

event goes ahead. Everyone is happy, telling

swathes of society who are ambivalent about the

recognised, but that appears to have come to

themselves that this is progress. Then once it’s

so-called beautiful game, it seems only yester-

nothing. Regardless of the constitutional rami-

over, they all go home, leaving the host nation

day that we were faced with wall-to-wall analy-

fications, there must be doubts over joining a

to carry on as before. FIFA have already had to

sis, soap powder and soft-toy sponsorship, and

mountain nation that has trouble finding a flat

bail out the organisers of this year’s competi-

no-go zones in our weekly TV schedules to stop

patch of land big enough for a level pitch, let

tion to the tune of a quarter of its budget. How

anything that might have the temerity to try and

alone 11 players to play on it.

on earth can you miscalculate by that amount?

So in the absence of a combined Pyrenean-

clash with a supposedly important match.

In the World Corruption Cup, there are clearly some early favourites.

Surprisingly, the dangerous individualists

squad, should Catalan football fans support the

who claim not to be entranced by the sight of

hated Spanish? Should they only cheer Catalan

In South Africa’s case, though, at least the

22 millionaires chasing a ball around are still a

(and possibly Basque) players but shun the

host nation will have 10 gleaming new sports

majority, contrary to the impression you might

rest? Or should they join sides with the French?

stadia to show for its efforts, which will pre-

receive from the media, your local bar or anyone

The last time that happened, for the 1714 Eu-

sumably come as some solace to all the citizens

who happens to be holding the TV remote con-

ropean Championships, things didn’t turn out

who lack access to safe water supplies, health-

trol. It’s just that professing to be uninterested

too well.

care or education. After all, football is the

in football is akin to expressing admiration for

In its early days, the World Cup was decided

Taliban foreign policy and/or (for a man) won-

by who played the best football. These days it is

beautiful game.

-- Roger de Flower

HOROSCOPE

by Nuria Picola

Aries You continue to have many possibilities for unexpected trips to faraway places. In legal matters, you’ll have good luck. If you’re a woman and want to have a baby, this is a very fertile time.

Taurus This month, you discover that your religious or philosophical beliefs are being put to the test. Businesses may fail or break up, or there could be changes to them.

Gemini Congratulations! You’re in a time of maximum energy. If looking for love, you might find it ‘at first sight’. If you’re in a relationship, suggest doing something different or original.

Cancer Unexpected job opportu-

Leo Love is going very fast; you may have amazing romantic experiences. Don’t ignore your health and follow a diet. Your parents’ health, or that of other relatives, will be a cause for concern.

Virgo You need to have a dynamic balance in your life between your work and your family. There may be renovation works going on at home, but also at work.

Libra

You should take care of your health. Don’t let trivial matters disturb you—stay focused on what’s important. Avoid risky activities. If you’ve got relationship issues, do something together.

Scorpio You will prosper personally and economically, as will your partner. This month you will explore the theme of death. Your health is improving but pay attention to your heart.

Sagittarius If you’re single, this will be a month of short, fun affairs. Take care of your stomach by watching what you eat. It’s a time of great personal creativity that you could commercialise.

Capricorn

Aquarius You could be nostalgic

Pisces You may live through situations that overwhelm you.

Don’t think that they are insignificant—it’s just the opposite. Be intuitive in your economic and personal life. Watch your health.

The demands of home and family are very strong, something that isn’t easy for you and could cause stress. There may be a move this month. You must redefine yourself.

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for a relationship. Former loves might re-enter your life, helping you resolve old problems. Your health is improving and you’re willing to look after yourself.

nities will arise. You could receive unforeseen profits at any time, but you may also spend them too quickly—try to invest the money in yourself.

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