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Secrets Restaurants in Berlin

All cities of the world cities have secrets restaurants that only a small group of people known, and their fame spread by the word of mouth, because they lie in the gray area of legality. But in recent years this has happened to belong to the dark zone and become a fad. Berlin is not far behind in this culture and its streets are places that only the most experienced know, so I´ll tell you what those restaurants are and how to reach them. The Shy Chef is an underground restaurant in the Kreuzberg district that was created by a chef who lives and works in his kitchen in this multicultural bohemian neighborhood and has become famous among intellectuals and tourists because it concentrates several attractions, including music festivals, flea market and bars with history. The chef daily cooks food for six people who have rated it with the five-star quality (the highest award for a restaurant). So the only way to be able sit at his table, is using his website, where you will be instructed to make a reservation. Following this contact, they will send you the information needed to get to the chef’s home. All we can anticipate is that it is located in an old house typical of the area and perfectly restored. It is not possible to know in advance what the chef is going to cook, since the menu depends on his mood and time of year, but what sure is that you are going to enjoy a gourmet meal, cooked by a top chef and exclusively for you. For five dishes, plus...

La Oreja de Van Gogh in Barcelona

The pop band who has had plenty of success with their previous five albums, will play a concert on the 24th of November in Barcelona at the Teatro Coliseum. The band, who has already sold over 8 million albums from their first album ´Dile al Sol´ until their famous album after that ´El Viaje de Copperpot´, ensure a thrilling concert, combined with the magic that only a theatre as pleasant as the Coliseum can offer. Meanwhile, being one of the most important Spanish bands in the whole country as well as one of the most popular ones on an international level, they expect a significative amount of thousands of people who will attend the only presentation that La Oreja de Van Gogh will play in this theatre. After the exit of Amaia Montero (singer) in 2007, many question marks emerged regarding the direction which the band was going to take. Their separation was one of the biggest questions that their fans were dealing with, while Amaia´s solo music career wasn´t shining notoriously either. All the doubts, however, were put to one side in 2008 when they presented Leire Martínez as their new voice and band front woman, as well as a new promising album called ´A las cinco en el Astoria´, offering the same quality of material that the band was used to giving. The conclusion arrived to the total tranquility of the whole immense legion of fans of this Spanish band. The band´s fans are now at ease with the idea that the band still has a long road to run, together with their new singer. Tickets for the...

Duan Reade Broadway New York

Duane Reade is a pharmaceutical chain open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with stores open in different spots in New York.

Sam Brocato Salon New York

The looks of Sam Brocato, with a salon in SoHo, are the preferred ones by the red carpet stars.

Rite Aid New York

Rite Aid is a pharmacy chain open 24 hours a day and it´s located in all the districts of New York.

Parque del Retiro

The Parque del Retiro is one of Madrid´s most significant places. With over 291 acres of land, it has various places to enjoy with your family.

West Side Market New York

The West Side Market in New York is managed by a family of Greek immigrants. The market is open 24 hours a day.

World Press Photo at the CCCB in Barcelona

For some unexplainable reason, if you look closely  journalism borders on pornography. Some images that  are presented in news media have a high level of explicit pornographic content and generate a kind of masturbatory vision of what you see. Thus, the size of the portrait or landscape, or the content of an action in space, is an act that can border on peacefulness or violence which then is called “journalism.” Under the “informative”  label photojournalism can be free to expose or criticize that that is possible within its  speech or Insight. The question arises from the fictional point of view of what  a single photograph generates. We have the recent case of the photo of the couple during a looting after a sports event that ended in a riot. If you recall, the picture shows a man and a woman, both young, probably between 20 and 30 , sharing  a lovely kiss while sitting on the ground between fires and police brutality. The result: the perfect image, love can beat everything, “all you need is love ..” and so on. The context of the image, of course, coincided with the encamped protestors in Europe, Syria, and other revolutionary movements, an iconic image, the subject against the machine wins again in a fit of passion bordering on sexual erotic youth. The truth of the picture was revealed soon after. The boy is comforting her partner after she received an unnoticed blow by the police. All the magic of the revolutionary idea dissolved, an online video showed the true picture: the girl is beaten, we hear desperate screams and tears, the...

Real – Surreal in New York

Until the 12th of February, the Whitney Museum of American Art in NY exhibits “Real / Surreal” analyzing the two art currents of the nineteenth and twentieth  century endorsed by concepts of freedom and a political perspective on art through the works of American artists in the decades of 20´s, 30´s and 40´s of the last century. The exhibition curated by by Carter Foster, reflects on the philosophical sense that envelops the Whitney Museum´s permanent collection, which focuses on the tension that mark these two currents in the history of art in the last century. Realism was founded after the French Revolution, when there is a moving art necessity that proclaims reality as the focus of interest, fixing its gaze on social events and the freedom to express this view focused on injustice. Paintings portray everyday life without gadgets and reject the scholarship that dominated art then Surrealism is the heritage of Dadaism, the artistic vanguard from the 20´s of  the last century, focusing mainly around the thoughts of Andre Breton and the Paris group. Breton, is a poet who will rebel against the limits imposed by reality to subvert freedom to create and to liberate the path for imagination, where the act of writing does not go through correction of reason, but by images that present emotion. Despite the large apparent opposition between realist and surreal streams, they converge on the same point of opposition and unleash a wide range of views, trends and movements in art, that this sample narrows to 20 years of the twentieth century, using the works of George Tooker, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler,...