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Niccolò Ammaniti: Let the party begin
Although in reality big parties always have Eastern overtones, few places like ancient Rome conjure the best images. For centuries in the West we have been educated with the idea that the decline of the Roman Empire whose scent is still adhered to our skin, a nostalgia that continuous shaking in a strange and hidden ways our hearts had to do with a decadent life of abandonment to all the bodily pleasures which found its highest expression in these aristocratic parties covering the entire spectrum between death and sex through exotic and unpredictable amusements reaching all the imaginable pleasures . A perfect and exquisite grotesque carnival turffled with ocelots, white giraffes, shimmering elephants, Nubian dancers, contortionists, Amazon pygmies, human fireballs, drugs and the finest poisons… Some great classics texts and a disturbed and a demented legion of Christian pamphlets created in the collective imagination an view of absolute debauchery of the most outrageous, wild, sexy parties the Roman world saw, those moments somehow survive today based on the Hollywood movies of the twentieth century who depicted those days of constant decadence From this perspective, some would link the infamous conduct of Silvio Berlusconi and his scandalous private life, from which we learned more and more lurid details (including sexual scandals while bathing in the pools of international leaders which included the recruitment of young underage escorts as intimated company for guests), with the legendary tradition of Roman excesses, which would simply be a contemporary incarnation, perhaps infinitely more vulgar and tawdry, as befits the new rich and poor mobsters of zero artistic intellectual substance To channel his anger and...Cafeteria Mensagem Lisbon
Minimalist decoration on the shores of the river Taugus and with views to the marina of Belém and to its neighbouring monuments.
Blues Café Bar Restaurant Lisabonne
Restaurant, bar and club. International cuisine with elaborated dishes. Dinner with Latin music on Thursdays.
Come Prima Restaurant Lisbon
.Italian cuisine restaurant, with a romantic and intimate style and good value for money.
Terra Restaurant Lisbon
Vegetarian restaurant located in the Principie Real area. Internal and external atmospheres. They serve a daily “all you can eat” buffet which is one of the best of its
Open Air Cinema in Barcelona, Sala Montjuïc
It´s one of the best summer activities for all cinema lovers, promoted by the Barcelona Council: open air cinema screenings, where you´ll be able to enjoy a selection of the best films of all time and short films, with a picnic and plenty of people! The films begin at 10.15pm sharp and are preceded by the screening of a short film at 10pm. In the next few dates two films were selected and another one, which will coincide with the closing of the festival, will be a surprise. On August 1st the short film ´Todo queda en família´ (It all stays in the family) by Lluís Fabra will be screened, as well as the film ´Still Walking´ (2008) by the Japanese director Hikorazu Koreeda. This film tells the story of a son and a daughter that, after a long time, go back to their parent´s house with their own families. The reason behind this reunion is the commemoration of the tragic death of the eldest son in an accident fifteen years before. Like in all families, love and ill-feeling reign here too. Apparently nothing has changed, they know each other like nobody else does and it all seems to be the same. However, it isn´t. Each one presents small changes that will create peculiar situations. ´Still Walking´ is a very subtle and delicate family drama, which takes place on a summer´s day. For the Oriental film fans, this will be a great surprise. Also, this film was given various awards in different film festivals in Asia and Japan. The screening on August 3rd will be dedicated to the short...
Santu Mofokeng in Paris
Until the 25th of September the National Gallery Jeu de Paume exhibits Shadow Hunter, a retrospective of the photographic work of Santu Mofokeng. The exhibition of the most important photographer in South Africa corresponds to the work that took place at the end of the Apartheid in Johannesburg and the beginning of the political transition. The retrospective, commissioned by Corine Diserens, is organized around close to 200 photographs and slides, as well as texts and documents which refer to his work and others that are part of his writings. Santu Mofokeng was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1951. Without any academical formation, he began in photographic informality of the streets of Soweto, making it into a job that would allow him to capture the political process that the country was going through in the 1980s in a privileged way. Soweto is located 24km away from Johannesburg and was built to transport the people of black race that lived in white race areas during Apartheid. The overcrowding and oppression exerted by the State against Soweto were the basic ingredients of the rebellion of 1976, when the Government announced that the education would be in Afrikaans and not in English, knowing that it was a language that the population didn´t know. The revolt was a product of the indignation for the abuse and condemnation of a miserable life that the white state imposed to the black race majority. This episode which finished with 575 dead and hundreds of arrested people who were tortured and an uncountable amount of injured, was captured by the lense of Mofokeng. Belonging to the collective...Restaurant Piazza Di Mare Lisbon
A modern and relaxed atmosphere, where they serve pizza, pasta, crêpes and Italian ice creams. They have a Menu of the Day, as well as a Junior one and a group one.
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian writer that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 thanks to his wonderful novel “Cien años de Soledad” (One Hundred Years of Solitude), but he also has many other published writings which are a pleasure to read. Of Love and Other Demons is a short but very intense novel. It´s about the story of forbidden love between a priest who is an assistant to a bishop and a girl interned in a convent. She´s possessed by the devil and he, in his attempt to rescue her from evil, falls madly in love with her and begins secretly seeing her during the nights. The love encounters in the cell of the beautiful girl are in such great written detail by García Márquez that the reader becomes an accomplice of the criminal and passionate act. The girl is called Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles who, despite her name, manages to enjoy sex and the love encounters with the priest. The story takes place in the city of Cartagena in the 18th century, when the church had a fundamental role in society. And this beautiful novel has great cultural value because it tells the details of a society which is unknown to us. And because love stories never grow old, and even less if there´s passion, sensuality and sex involved, reading this little erotic literary gem will motivate many couples in bed. Being a novel of a high sexual content, it becomes a read that is best read accompanied by your partner. Not only the main characters have passionate loving encounters, but also there...
