The journey of El Bulli
El Bulli 1846 offers visitors the opportunity to reflect on the role of cuisine and, at the same time, to remember the role that the Roses restaurant played in culinary innovation
View ArticleRiding the canyon
music Who are Riders of the Canyon? Of the four band members, Joana Serrat needs least introduction. The folk singer from Vic has proved her talent and perseverance for over a decade and has made a...
View ArticleA tumultuous year
Looking back on the previous twelve months helps us better understand the magnitude of the changes and surprises we have witnessed (as always, our December issue offers you a review of the year’s major...
View ArticleJanuary
It’s time for our traditional review of the year, which picks out some of the key moments that featured in the news in the past 12 months, both at home in Catalonia and around the world
View ArticleNO MORE MASKS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT
From February 8, after 1,010 days, masks were no longer compulsory on public transport, only in health centres. As Covid levels hit their lowest point since the virus began, public use of masks was...
View ArticleA FEARFUL REGIME
As the saying goes “he who has nothing to hide, has nothing to fear”. The facts show that the Spanish regime is terrified of dissent, so it must have a lot to hide. Some examples follow. Pablo Hásel,...
View ArticleRewriting history
Girona FC conclude a highly impressive 2023 and an amazing start to the 20232-24 season with a draw at Betis that leaves them joint top of La Liga with Real Madrid
View Article“The first Catalan aviator”
The obstinacy to fly of María Pepa Colomer, the first flight instructor in Spain and the pioneer of aviation in Catalonia, could have ended tragically very early in her life. Pepa was only eight years...
View ArticlePROMISES, PROMISES
A new year, a new outlook, a new me; and this year I really mean it! How many times have I said that to myself when New Year comes around, only to look back 12 months later with a sad shake of the...
View ArticleThe concerts of 2024
Bruce Springsteen, Estopa and Rammstein will be at the Olympic Stadium, with Depeche Mode, Olivia Rodrigo and Manolo García at the nearby Sant Jordi
View ArticleEpic sequels, talent, reminiscence and farewell tears
2024’s film bonanza guarantees unparallelled excitement and nostalgia for movie enthusiasts
View Article“We’re out”
The English language has just the right expression for the subject of this month’s column: “To shoot oneself in the foot”, which, as the figurative image implies, means to foolishly harm one’s...
View ArticleMADRID’S SPECIAL TRIBUNALS FOR INTREPID CATALANS
That totalitarian regimes do not like dissent may seem an understatement. Take Daniel Ortega and his extended family’s brutal rule over Nicaraguans. Just recently, ending 2023, the country’s police...
View ArticleThe slow awakening of female talent in technical subjects
With Women’s Day on March 9 due to celebrate the progress made in gender equality, the percentage of women choosing to study science and technology subjects is still not rising fast enough to close the...
View ArticleAlbert Adrià opens ice cream shop on the Rambla
The Enigma chef is soon to open Gellato Collection, near Torrons Vicens, on Barcelona’s La Rambla
View ArticlePizza to sandwiches
Sartoria Panatieri and Brabo chefs plan to open new venue in Eixemple district
View ArticleThe best meat in the world
Incredible things happen in Barcelona. Proof of that is Hiroki Ito’s recent visit from Japan. Ito represents the third generation of the Ito Ranch, located in Mie Prefecture, the only farm to supply...
View ArticleMaking perfumes drop by drop
Esperança Casas has rarely repeated a perfume. Only in very exceptional cases has she decided not to destroy a formula and make it a second time, and from each of the perfumes she has repeated she...
View ArticleTWENTY YEARS ON
Amid the deafening fanfare of inconsequential daily news, sometimes a cluster of fateful events, whose full significance may not even be clear at the time, pop up within a relatively short time lapse....
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