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Restaurant Kiskakukk Budapest
With a century of experience, this is one of the most important gourmet restaurants in Budapest.
Club Boeme Rome
A place to spend a nice evening with different music to dance to and cocktails for all tastes and, the best part, three different atmospheres to choose from.
Romics: The Rome Comic Festival
From the 29th of september, to the 2nd of the october 2011, the Romics festival of comics and animation cinema takes places at Fiera Rome. This year, the event celebrates 11 years, continuing to a national and international reference point for all fans and aficionados of videogames, Japanese fantasy and live music. Thousands of companies specialising in the comic sector will be there especially to reveal all the latest news and trends of Japanese animation – publishers, specialist bookshops, collectors, video game companies, etc. Moreover, the programme of the Italian conference is highly international, with exhibitions, concerts, meetings, competitions, activities for kids, and much much more. In 2010, three artists from the comic world were awarded special Romics recognition; the Japanese manga legend, creator of Lady Oscar, and soprano singer, Ryoko Ikeda, and Italian Claudio Villa, who illustrates the “Tex” comic book series. The third winner was American Chris Ware, the mastermind behind graphic novel “Jimmy Corrigan“, which marked a radical change in the Japanese comic genre. The most popular, and worldly renowned date on the event´s calendar is the parade in the centre of the Italian capital. If you have a favourite manga character, Rome is giving you the opportunity to dress up, and take part in the colourful, creative spectacle. Last year, thanks to the performance and amazing outfits of Italian comic book fans, Italy was crowned champions of the World Cosplay Summit (WCS), and event which is organised each year in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Another exciting element of the annual festival is the Romics Comics Book Competition. A competition which pitches against one...
Paris Autumn Festival
Paris in autumn is a delight. At that time, not only the the summer heat and tourists are gone, but also, the city still offers a variety of events, concerts and activities both indoors and outdoors. You have to visit Paris at least once in your life. The romance that novels like “Rayuela” by Julio Cortazar show the attempt to fasten our hearts with one city, in one way or the other still remains. If you go downtown, you can get lost in the beautiful streets, always with a story behind them, like so many people who once lived in Paris. And the stories of all the artists who have passed through Paris are so long that it would not be possible to mention them all. However, Paris has fallen into all the possible mistakes of globalization, free markets and “gentrification”. So, if you go to this city you will notice that beside the “cutting edge” it had, perhaps, during the vanguards of the early twentieth century, or the fifties of Godard and the Nouvelle Vague and the Revolution of May 68, have been a bit side. But let´s be honest, it has been over 100 years of that, so it is enough of dreaming. Despite being a highly embodied space, dominated by tourism, there are options like the Paris Autumn Festival that may leave a good taste in the eyes and ears. This year´s festival will celebrate its fortieth edition, forty years effectively devoted to contemporary art, combining and presenting various artistic styles. The festival presents those, jobs that are current important references in the performing arts, experimental...Cat Bar Barcelona
Unique bar a few steps away from Jaume I Square, with an enjoyable atmosphere with sounds of pop, punk, rock and indie rock.
My Beautiful Parking Barcelona
Rental, parking and bicycle repair in a friendly atmosphere is what you can find in My Beautiful Parking, located a few steps away from Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona.
Holocaust Memorial Budapest
A memorial centre and museum dedicated to the dramatic era of Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. Centro de la memoria y museo dedicado a la drámatica etapa de la
Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki
The failure of one of the biggest Albert Hanover’s projects, writer from Samoa, probably had more to do indirectly with Albert’s strong impression from the torrid of the Lawrence Kasdan´s first film Body Heat. This incrediably sexy film played with the idea that prolonged excessive heat creates a state of emergency that is an altered state of consciousness that makes us inclined to go to our dark side, irrational, repressed and secret. It was however a gloss reading of Julio Cortazar´s story WF Harvey August Heat included in the book The Beast with Five Fingers, which caused him to have the idea of adapting it and the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki who convinced him to put appropriate action, from all over the world, along the strange and beautiful Hietaniemi cemetery Helsinki, famous for both the spectacular landscape with a lake, and for parties and varied and intense sexual activity taking place at night around its large perimeter. If what eventually Hanover decided was the challenge of imagining the likely effects of a heat wave in Helsinki – the photos showed Kaurismaki documenting the phenomena that had occurred in Finland in such exceptional circumstances were difficult to avoid – or promise Finnish director finally failed in getting the money, and even the French actor Jean Pierre Léaud, idolized by both, as a protagonist without too many problems, remainded a matter of debate. Despite the fact that the shooting had to be interrupted at the beginning of the second week, in some black markets it is possible to find the pirated footage and some copies of the script, which turn...
Joan Colom in Barcelona
Until 29th October the Colectania Foundation in Barcelona displays the works of one of the most influential Catalan photographers of the ´50s and ´60s, Joan Colom. The photos were bought by the Colectania Foundation in 2004 from the gallery owner and art critic Joseph Maria Casademontwas. No doubt, pphotography is one of the most effective ways of recording historical eventsa as well as everyday life through fashion, objects, postural positions, landscapes etc.,. This is one of et main reasons why the photographic archives are so appreciated both by the historians and art lovers. Colom’s pictures reflect a peculiar time of the Barcelona neighborhood Raval, known as Barrio Chino. Colom was a master in capturing everyday life of marginal part of society. He managed to carry out a true social chronicle of a neighbourhood then famous only for its prostitution. The pictures stand out for an unbelievable realism. This is quite impressive if we consider that Colom took the picture in a very discrete way and that most of the times he had to hide the camera. Even though he was able to portrait the Raval’s society and transmit through the pictures the both the misery of an era as well as a poetical innocence reflected in children’s portraits Hi spictures are also poetic and able to provoke oa nostalgia of a disappeared Barcelona, with streets and architecture that do not exist anymore, and a small-town beauty that is only in the individual memory and in these amazing photographs. Joan Colom was born in Barcelona in 1921. He studied accounts and began in a self-taught photography in the 50´s. In...Heliogábal Barcelona
It´s a cultural association located in the neighbourhood of Gràcia, with a permanent programme of concerts and musical events for the lively Barcelona nights.
