From the Baltimore Business Journal (Trevor’s strong): Dancing shoes required for Charleston Group’s Pazo Julekha Dash Following months of anticipation and delays, Charleston Group restaurateurs Cindy Wolf and Tony Foreman have announced the details for their latest venture, Pazo, which will debut in November. Pazo — which means “noble house” in Catalan — will offer…
Metrosexual. The Americans blame French cissies and Brit hacks, but the honours go to Galician AZ Alkmaar footballer, José Fortes Rodriguez: Some women just don’t get it. They’re not used to being turned down. They say: Go on, you want me don’t you! I say: Am I talking Chinese? I don’t find you attractive. And…
All last year industry and sections of the PP were saying that there was no way that Spain could meet its Kyoto targets, currently being overshot by more than 100% as a result of the PP’s fine economic record (see below). Economics minister Rato was mugged by a bunch of industrialists in early December in…
There was a big discussion at choir last night about the frightful quality of semen in Barcelona. That’s not an infrequent topic of conversation, but this time it was at least partly based on quantitative evidence, namely a new comparative study by a local reproductive health institute. The first deranged hypothesis was of a correlation…
We don’t like to say so in public, but we all know that most of the world’s remaining x thousand languages are doomed. At the moment, however, languages take years to die, and we all sit around worrying, wasting time and energy that would be much better invested in the pub. And that’s why Kaleboel…
From The Independent, re the death of 19 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay: The intensification of the industry has been driven by Conservas Dani, based in Vilassar de Mar… Dani’s products are a household name in Spain by virtue of the fact that Espanyol, the club chaired by the company’s wealthy owner, Daniel Sanchez…
Joan over in John Chappell’s 2004/02/04 02:35 comments section is getting annoyed about people using the word Spanish instead of Castilian. “I think we should call things by their name,” he says, Spanish languages are: Castillian, Catalan, Basque and Galician. I speak both Castillian and Catalan. I don’t agree with Español being the same as…
Forum 2004 is an event that Barcelona City Council hopes will turn into a re-run of the 92 Olympics in terms of reputation and inward investment. Billed as an anti-globalist fest, it’s all got into a bit of trouble because previously advertised bill-toppers like Klein, Chomsky, and Sonntag seem have said either no or nothing.…
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