Kilian Jornet can’t breathe in Barna
Having twice touched the oxygen-scarce top of the world, Kilian Jornet held his breath and descended into this wretched realm of man. He cemented his fame as one of ...
The Pelu Plague
I just couldn’t take it anymore. I barged through the front door of Quins Pels hair salon, interrupted the two women’s conversation, and demanded answers. “Why,” I ...
Artificial Turf – Or How to Love Your Local Club
It could be any given Sunday in Sant Andreu from October to March. The pedestrian streets are deadened by overcast skies and shuttered shops. A brave few venture ou ...
Canòdrom: Drones and the Dork Invasion
Simón Lee, one of Barcelona’s rising tech gurus, has twice seen the future. His first vision was benevolent, the second tinged with dystopia. Following custom, here ...
A new era is dawning over Sant Andreu
The sun-burnt boy fluttered like a bright red flag. The upper half of his body was the color of a chorizo on the barbeque, his ginger hair the sputtering fat. It hu ...
Meeting the last impressionist in Sant Andreu
On any given day, far from the center of any presumptive art scene in Barcelona, one of the world’s last practitioners of impressionism picks his spot to paint in a ...
Pujol ladrón or how Barcelona bench springs into life
A city is not a city without its benches. By offering a place of rest to anyone and everyone, they make streets something more than circuits. Just look at their odd ...
Paw power on the rise: PACMA eyes parliament
Aristotle said humans are political animals because only humans have speech. If only the philosopher could see how a fruitless four months of Homo sapien blah-blah- ...
Ada’s Doc: Colau’s mayoral metamorphosis
Filmmaker Pau Faus looks like he could use another game of ping-pong. He played his first match six months ago, just after he arrived to work with Nanouk Films’ edi ...
Blessed pigs: The artisan way of porc
Legend has it that one day a momma pig, distraught because her baby pig was sick, sought out the help of a man said to hold healing powers. The pig beseeched the ma ...
This Book is Free, It Cannot Be Bought, It Cannot Be Sold
The door only opened twice in half an hour. Both times gypsies– first a woman, then a man– poked their heads in and asked for “a little bit of paper, please.” Leono ...
Phenomena loves cinema and cinema lovers love Phenomena
Cerdà is the self-appointed “showman” of Phenomena, “The Ultimate Cinematic Experience.” He is ever-present at the versión original cinema. Obsessive or just hard-w ...