Theatre – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

€100+ subsidy per ticket at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

How would *you* spend it?

How many votes did it take to elect your councillor in the 2011 Catalan municipals?

The answer’s somewhere between 11 and 5,016. Time to merge small ayuntamientos?

Reformers attacking the rotten borough system, 1831 (<a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1496247&partid=1&searchText=rotten+borough&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>British Museum</a>)

The Babel fish and the existence of God revisited

Does St Salvator of Horta’s geo-sensitive (Catalan-Basque) miracle cure for a deaf-mute girl open a logical loophole in Godless Adams’ argument?

The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued

Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.

Teatro Apolo in Barcelona, ca 1910, advertising the zarzuela Bohemios by <a href='http://www.zarzuela.net/ref/reviews/amadeu11_eng.htm'>Amadeu Vives</a>. CC from <a href=

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Fermín Salvochea, a successful comedy writer aged 1?

Cádiz’s anarchist saint seems to have been misunderstood regarding either his age or his achievements.

Unesco: some mother languages are more equal than others

Which is why Davidson L Hepburn will be welcomed to Barcelona next week.

Torrente, modeled on the mafia private dick in Peckinpah’s The Getaway?

The hair, the dress-sense, the profession: some of the basics are there.

What musical or theatrical numbers would you like to see performed on a barrel organ?

Any suggestions deeply appreciated. Here’s the form, the results of which I won’t publish live in order to discourage Looby from submitting the complete works of Nam June Paik. Perusable results there will, however, be, soonish, and there’ll be more news here shortly. This is the original–from an old band of mine–of one arrangment I…

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