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Mónica Boixeda Lisboeta, Only-Be, Restaurantes

Simple and affordable bike rental right in the middle of Lisbon. It´s open all year long and they offer home delivery and repair.

Summer Cinema at the Barcelona Verdi

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

In his strange book The Image Announcement, writer from Samoa Albert Hanover has an emotional recollection, full of depth of melancholy, of the summers of his childhood and adolescence. Due to the somewhat nomadic quality of his life during these years, his parents with odd, mysterious professions, Hanover liked nothing more than to stay in the city for the summer. He loved the way the streets were taken over by the pulse, respiration and rhythm of the sleepy, urban summer months – especially in cities like Madrid (which in august literally becomes a ghost town), where he lived for a few years; cities of unbearable heat. As he felt so at home in sky high temperatures – considering himself to be a naturally lazy person, he felt that the soporific effect that the heat had on most people made them more like him – the summer months brought him an indescribable, almost erotic pleasure, full of sensation, which was only confirmed to him many years later (though, how many years is many?) by the statistic that the most extraordinary things tend to happen in excessive heat. Hanover felt he wanted to live for exceptions; for the breaks and the flaws. In those summers, one of his favourite pastimes was to go to the cinema in the afternoon, scrupulously avoiding the new releases, which were out of bounds during this period of dog days. He frequented, aged 11 or 12, the back to back screenings, and the cinema clubs which were so popular at the time, in search of double shows of B-movies, sci-fi, horror, classic comedy, Marx bros and... read more

Niccolò Ammaniti: Let the party begin

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Roman

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... read more