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Dampkring Amsterdam
Dampkring is one of the most important coffee shops because this was the place where they filmed scenes of the film ´Ocean´s 12´, starring Brad Pitt.
Alibri Bookshop Barcelona
Alibri is one of the most important language bookshops in Barcelona, with 127,000 books and over 1,500 sq metres.
Graphic Book Madrid
Graphic Book is a bookshop that specializes in design but it also has books on advertising, decoration, illustration and more.
La Tomatina – The tomato-throwing festival
You´ve surely been in many interesting festivals, but if you´ve never lived from close up the world´s biggest tomato war you´re missing out on the super famous Tomatina. This event has become one of the most important summer activities in the whole of Spain, not only for its peculiarity but also because of the thousands of visitors from around the world that delight themselves with this Valencian tradition. At 10am of the last Wednesday in August (this year it´s the 31st), Tomatina begins with quite a peculiar activity called the ´Palo Jabón´ which is soaping up a post and placing a ham on the top with the aim to spur on the braver ones to climb the post and get the meaty prize, which a bunch of spectators sing traditional songs. Once someone manages to get the ham, the sign for the beginning of the tomato battle is given. Lorries full of tomatoes that come from Extremadura give out provisions to the happy participants, while the streets become red rivers. An hour later, the second sign is given and the happiest battle in Spain is officially over. Before participating in the Tomatina, you need to take into account the following recommendations: 1. Bring some extra clothes so that when the battle finishes you can change in the public toilets close to the river. 2. Use glasses, you surely don´t want a tomato to fall on your face! 3. Avoid bringing any type of bottles or any object that can harm someone. 4. Be very careful with the lorries that give out the tomatoes. 5. Throw tomatoes only when...Altaïr Barcelona
Altaïr is the biggest travel bookshop in Europe. You can buy books, share stories and enjoy a cultural space.
Esther Stocker in Rome
The Macro Museum in Rome exhibits until the 30th of October the exhibition Destino Comune by the conceptual Italian artist Esther Stocker, in collaboration with the Galleria Oredaria di Roma. The Macro Museum is in the old Peroni brewery, restored in 1999. The building was constructed in the early part of the 20th century in the wold Via Regio Emilia and it was recovered by the richness of its architecture which was engraved in a special place, which overlooks Rome completely. Next to the contemporary art museum there are bookshops and restaurants with the best beer in the city, honoring the origin of the place. Esther Stocker was born in Silandro, Italy, in 1970 and currently lives and works in Vienna. She began to exhibit in Italy at the end of the 90s. Her geometric work impacted for its aesthetic quality that she brought as a reminder of pop art in the 60s, but the depth and the conceptual elaboration on the fragmentation that the system produces in the environment, taking it as a natural and social aspect, is what´s moving from her work. In Destino Comune, Stocker creates a geometrical structure where she introduces small inexactitudes to point out the damage of the system in its entirety. The reticles are made from industrial black scotch material, of resin, which is used in architecture, on a white background, where inexactitudes stand out. In Stocker´s works, everything is perfect, clean, without any dissonant elements, only a few small alterations that the spectator has to encounter to give it the sense that it should have. The artist plays with these small...La Bodeguita del Medio Prague
La Bodeguita del Medio is a restaurant and cocktail bar in Prague that specializes in Cuban food with the style that the old city of Havana has.
Alkimia Restaurant Barcelona
Alkimia is a luxury restaurant with a unique design. Its dishes are made from the study of nature and the history of food.
Rockstar Models Night at Hard Rock Cafe Berlin
Fashion never stops. For people not to grow weary, new forms, new faces and new concepts must be invented all the time. For some time, we have been surrounded by images of reality, without pictures, without digital figures, and without advertising or commercials, there is nothing. Let´s analyze it, the morass of signs that is given to our senses, which makes most forms in the world to have meaning and be part of a consensus, are the result of rubbing vertical visual stimuli. It is not simply that you choose to wear black for the your boyfriend’s party to look thinner. To achieve this decision, you have considered the pink skirt with blue dots and the black tight dress, you had to go through all the connotations of each of those dresses, from the design, the cleavage to the way the fabric falls on your legs. You had to check what accessories to complete the outfit you should wear to match your attitude and desire for the chosen night. In this way, fashion, today more than ever before, is part of a reality that cage us and does not let us out. The sin of fashion is that, it is just not for everyone. The body that fashion establishes as beautiful, the same that deifies, which contributes to alter what we believe, because ultimately what we consider as beautiful about a male’s and female’s body, has little to do with what´s on the street, the bodies that are on the beach. Thus, the fashion becomes a spectrum of desire, the desire for the impossible, something we want to be...
