David LaChapelle Exhibition at the Monnaie in Paris

North American photographer David LaChapelle has a cool photography exhibition on at the moment in Paris at the Monnaie. Nearly 200 of his works are classified in different themes: they will transform the museum walls into a jungle full of colours and kitsch eccentricities. Read more about David LaChapelle’s Paris Exhibition here. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "David LaChapelle Exhibition [...]

Slumdog Millionaire cleans up at Oscars

The eagerly awaited night finally arrived! Yesterday, the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles were held, where ‘Slumdog millionaire‘ was the runaway winner, getting 8 of the 10 categories for which it was nominated, including Best Picture. The best movie stars paraded last night on the red carpet, including Penélope Cruz, who is the first [...]

Antoni Gaudi – a Catalan genius

Antoni Gaudi is one of the greatest figures in the history of Spanish and Catalan architecture. Seen as the genius of the Modernist movement (Art Nouveau), his work was not only a product of the social context of the time, but also of his own personality and devotion to the Catalan culture. Read more about Antoni [...]

Antoni Gaudi – genius or a crazed madman

Gaudi is one of the greatest figures in the history of Spanish and Catalan architecture. Seen as the genius of the Modernist movement his work was not only a product of the social context of the time, but also of his own personality and devotion to the culture of Catalonia. Read more about Gaudi here: Gaudi, the [...]

The Barna Sants Festival

The current world of music is full of bands which sing exclusively in English. Often, when you turn on the radio you will often find yourself listening to commercial pop. It is the same thing everyday: boring and monotonous! Do you get the impression that you can only listen to music in English? What’s happening [...]

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Woody Allen’s new film, announced as a romantic comedy, is far superior to the disastrous Match Point and Cassandra’s Dream (Scoop, his second London film, has yet to be shown here), but much inferior to his best work. It centres on the adventures of two broadly defined young Americans in Spain, film-maker and photographer Cristina [...]

Spanish weatherman sues over plastic surgery gaffe

Jose Antonio Maldonado, 64, presented daily weather bulletins on the national network TVE for 22 years, but he took early retirement last year after the simple operation to improve his looks went wrong. The operation known as blepharoplasty, should have been a simple one to remove droopy skin around the eyes making him look younger, but [...]
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