Original Girls_boutique March 12, 2007
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We live in times where thanks to IKEA, Starbucks and Zara we can sit on the same sofas, drink the same café lattes and wear the same skirt in New York, Tokyo or Madrid. That’s why Las Niñas handmade clothing is so fresh. Sisters Arancha and Nieves Moscoso have been showing their simple, colourful and naïve pieces from their Lavapies shop for 5 years now. They mix cotton with synthetics, make handbags, t-shirts and have even started painting roof slates!
It’s not unusual to find Arancha at her antique sewing machine, creating a totally unique dress that doesn’t draw more much attention to itself than it should. We all deserve to wear something like that.
C/ Doctor Fourquet 39, Lavapies
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Lunes 5-8:30 | Martes-Viernes | 11:30-1:30 | Sabado 11:30-2:30
Plaza Castilla March 10, 2007
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You’ve seen it every time you pass Plaza Castilla, how could you miss a 37 metre concrete structure? But I bet you didn’t know its still used for emergency purposes. Not only that, but its part of the Canal II Foundation’s headquarters. The whole area has been done up, they’ve maintained its original 60s character whilst adding all sorts of multimedia equipment in all 4 spaces. You can still see the original tubes and canals inside the base of the deposit. A 250 person auditorium with a great city view has also been added. Since 2002 when it opened, there have been all sorts of concerts, exhibitions and art installations here. I just wish we could convince them to let us have the space for a party.
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Get on your bike! November 10, 2006
Posted by Administrator in : kapital city , 5commentsThe rest of Europe seems to be using bicycles to get around a lot more than Spaniards are. It makes sense: its cleaner, faster and gets you fit. Cities like Barcelona and San Sebastian are at the forefront of the 2 wheel movement in Spain, making those cities less noisey, less polluted and releaving traffic problems.
In order to get the message out there´s a series of “bicycle marches” this coming weekend all over the country, check it out at the Better with a Bike website:
BICICLETADA – 12 NOVIEMBRE - MEJORCONBICI.com
franz ferdinand December 23, 2005
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It was one of those last minute situations, the doors opened and we ended up at the
ferdinand´s gig_I found my friends and their friends_we made it to the stage just as
they struck the chords to the first song_we managed to place ourselves strategically
(always important when you aren´t very tall) although right beneath a gigantic
speaker, detail I failed to notice until the music stopped and I realized I had gone
deaf. we went crazy with the music and I jumped up and down like I never thought I
would at this late stage_but mayik, alice and I jumped about more crazily than
anyone else in the 8000-person crowd devoted to the Scottish band_oh yes_ a mini
shroom made its way into my mouth at some point during the course of the evening
aswell. the concert only lasted about 5 minutes, and I went back in time to my
twenty-something Stirling days_that was when I was in charge of the campus radio
station and spent a lot of time at gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as
interviewing cool bands on the happening indie scene at the start of the 90s_my boyfriend
at the time was a scooter fanatic, and Alex Kapranos was one of his mates, now Franz
Ferdinand´s singer, I remember him elegantly dressed in his fitted tonic suits_he was
already in the music scene back in those days, which is why I am so pleased he has currently
made it the heights of Euro mega-success_no need to go into all the details and the famous
Stanleys badge_but there it was, pinned to my lapel_ and since it was an evening of
fortuitous coincidences, I had the opportunity of saying hey to Mr. Kapranos_thus
completing a series of revivals of previous eras in my short but exciting
lifetime_it is very interesting, life, its spiral mechanisms are fascinating