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| June 13th, 2007 -
Warning: Trains
Coming. A Masterpiece Is at Risk. |
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With
its soaring but impossibly slender columns and masonry
that resembles heavy frosting, Antonio Gaudí’s
unfinished masterwork La Sagrada Familia seems as if
it might suddenly collapse on itself, like a surreal
cake.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| May 20th, 2007 -
Other Separatists
Buoyed by Kosovo Push |
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While the European Union also insists Kosovo is no precedent,
some of its member states have their own restive regions
to contend with -- Catalonia and the Basque country
in Spain, Flanders in Belgium, Hungarian nationalists
in Slovakia and Cyprus' breakaway Turkish Republic.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| April 21st, 2007 -
Barcelona:
Hesperia Tower |
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In
the otherwise low-slung L'Hospitalet area and closer
to the airport than the city center, the 350-foot high
building — one of the tallest buildings in Catalonia
— is steps away from the Fira de Barcelona, a
major convention center.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| April 20th, 2007 -
Intel looks
to bury AMD's 'elegant' Barcelona chip |
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Intel bets its design and manufacturing prowess will
bury AMD's quad-core Barcelona CPU.
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| Source: Washingtonpost.com |
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| March 20th, 2007 -
Bruised Feelings
and a Shaky Knee for F.C. Barcelona |
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Eto’o,
F.C. Barcelona’s lithe and explosive striker from
Cameroon, has only recently returned to the field after
having surgery on his right knee, which was injured
in a European Champions League match against Werder
Bremen of Germany on Sept. 27.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| March 19th, 2007 -
36 HOURS;
Barcelona |
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It was in Barcelona in the 1890s that Picasso found
the artistic vanguard that propelled him to Paris and
world renown. And this is where Gaudí spun Art
Nouveau into his own quirky architectural idiom. Today
the term avant-garde still applies: to Barcelona's fusion
cuisine, design-accented boutique hotels, fun-loving
fashion houses and even a delicious assortment of innovative
chocolatiers, all of whom cut their teeth in the Catalan
capital before taking on the rest of Spain.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| March 17th, 2007 -
ART REVIEW;
A Seaport Abuzz With Cultural Fer |
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The
show's subtitle is ''Gaudí to Dalí,''
lest the public be deterred from an exhibition that's
in fact heavy on Catalan heroes like the great (and
vastly underappreciated) architect Lluís Domènech
i Montaner, the whimsical jewelry designer Lluís
Masriera and the painters Isidre Nonell and Ramon Casas
(who, despite having passed out of fashion, was better
than Picasso for many years; it was Casas, by the way,
who owned the very first sports car in town, and his
prestige and élan inspired the Dada artist Francis
Picabia to develop his famous mania for them).
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| March 6th, 2007 -
FORAGING;
BARCELONA: BUBO AND BUBO BAR |
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Mr. Mampel, who slides between Catalan, Spanish and
French, with a dusting of English, started out catering
and still prepares feasts for events. Since bubo opened
in June 2005, he's been swamped with offers to franchise
his concoctions.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| March 5th, 2007 -
From Catalonia,
a Tomboy Carmen (and Her Inner Child) |
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Catalonia
has a proud modern-dance tradition. And Ramón
Oller (pronounced OH-yay) is one of its best-known choreographers,
familiar to New York audiences from the works he created
for Ballet Hispanico. Now he is back with his own Compañía
Metros in "Carmen," which opened on Wednesday
night at the Joyce Theater for a two-week engagement.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| February 23rd, 2007
- Russia
Warns Against Kosovo Independence |
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Moscow has often warned that Kosovo's status will serve
as precedent for other nations with similar cases, including
several breakaway provinces in the ex-Soviet Union.
The Kremlin has hinted that, were Kosovo to gain independence,
two pro-Russian rebel regions in Georgia and a breakaway
province in Moldova, which enjoy Moscow's tacit support,
could follow suit. Serbian officials also have warned
that an independent Kosovo could also serve as a precedent
for independence movements elsewhere, notably in Spain's
Basque Country or Catalonia.
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| Source: The
Washington Post |
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| February 8th, 2007
- Princeton
Libraries Join Google Book - Scan Project |
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Six
months ago, the University of California became the
first of a second round of libraries to join, followed
by the University Complutense of Madrid, the National
Library of Catalonia and the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, University of Virginia, and the University
of Texas at Austin.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| February 2nd, 2007
- QUICK
BITE/Belleville; Spanish Cuisine (From Scratch) |
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Conrad Adillon, who owns the business, even serves tapas
for customers to sample as they shop and socialize.
He started the warehouse sales in 2001 because he wanted
to introduce his friends and neighbors to the foods
of his native Catalonia and all of Spain. The atmosphere
is convivial, and Mr. Adillon is always eager to share
recipes.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| February 1st, 2007
- FORAGING;
BARCELONA: BUBO AND BUBO BAR |
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''Tourists
come in and want to know, 'Is it a jewelry shop?' ''
says Carles Mampel, the 39-year-old award-winning pastry
chef behind bubo and bubo bar. His establishment is
actually a one-two punch of haute chocolatier and new-wave
tapas bar near the Basilica Santa Maria del Mar, deep
in Barcelona's El Born neighborhood, but ''people eat
with their eyes,'' he says.
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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| January 8th, 2007
- Traveling
to Andorra From the United States (You Can Get There) |
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Andorra is one of those places that might have prompted
the proverbial Irishman to say: “You can’t
get there from here!”. This is almost true, in
terms of modern transportation. The tiny country of
Andorra, with a population of just 71,000, is almost
hidden in the Pyrenees between France and Spain and
can only be reached by road — or helicopter
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| Source: The
New York Times |
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