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#012 NOV 2015 OFFICIAL GUIDE OF BCN ENGLISH EDITION! ENGLISH 4,95€ What makes CRAFT BEERS, Barcelona so STREET CULTURE, special? Everyone DANCE FESTIVAL, has their opinion, LOCAL DISHES... including us... PLUS! 2 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & bcnshop.com Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & bcnshop.com 3 Time Out Barcelona English Edition The Best November 2015 of BCN Features 16. Cool Barcelona What makes this city so special? What gives it its unique essence? Clemmy Manzo gives her answer to the million-euro question. 22. A special brew Barcelona’s craft beer industry is booming, with brewpubs and alehouses spreading around the city. Aitor Labrador does a sterling job of checking out the top places for a pint. 5RCEGƁNNGTU Late Catalan ƁNOOCMGT$KICU Eugènia Sendra raises her eyes to the .WPCYCURTQNKƁEKP heavens to take us on a tour of Barcelona’s other areas of the spectacular domes. visual arts, as shown in a new 28. Celebrating creativity exhibition p. 42 This month sees the fourth outing for Sâlmon, a dance festival that embraces BIGAS LUNA / ‘MÉS DE I MÉS LUNA’ innovation, collaboration and participation. Alx Phillips tells us who’s worth seeing. Regulars 30. Shopping & Style 34. Things to Do 42. The Arts 54. Food & Drink 61. LGBT 62. Clubs 64. Getaways CHRISTIAN BERTRAND GIMÉNEZ IVAN $CTEGNQPCoUUVTGGVUCTGHWNNQHEWNVWTGYKVJITCHƁVK Discover a new Mexican restaurant where no 66. BCN Top Ten skateboards and hip hop all over town p. 34 one will tell you off for reading at the table p. 54 Via Laietana, 20, 1a planta | 08003 Barcelona | T. 93 310 73 43 ([email protected]) Printer.KVQITCƁC4QUÅU Publisher Eduard Voltas | Finance manager Judit Sans | Business manager Mabel Mas | Editor-in-chief Andreu Gomila | Deputy editor Hannah Pennell | Features & web Distribution S.A.D.E.U. editor María José Gómez | Art director Diego Piccininno | Design Laura Fabregat, Anna Mateu Mur | Picture editor Maria Dias | Writers Jan Fleischer, Maria Junyent, Josep Legal deposit B-26040-2014 Lambies, Ricard Martín, Marta Salicrú, Eugènia Sendra | Catalan website Manuel Pérez | Spanish website Erica Aspas | English website Jan Fleischer | Contributors ISSN 2385-5142 Our cover Marcelo Aparicio, Laia Beltran, Javier Blánquez, Òscar Broc, Ada Castells, Nick Chapman, Irene Fernández, Ivan Giménez, Maria Gorgues, Eulàlia Iglesias, Aitor Labrador, IRISNEGRO Clemmy Manzo, Ricard Mas, Iván Moreno, Alx Phillips, Martí Sales, Carla Tramullas, Montse Virgili | Translator Nick Chapman | Advertising T. 93 295 54 00 | Mercedes Arconada [email protected] | Carme Mingo [email protected] | Marketing Clara Narvión [email protected] | Advertising designer Xavi Laborda | Published by 80 MÉS 4 Publicacions Time Out Barcelona English edition Published under the authority and with the collaboration of Time Out International Ltd, London, UK. The name and logo of Time Out are used under licence from Time Out Group Ltd, 251 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7AB, UK +44 (0)20 7813 3000. | All rights reserved throughout the world. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Time Out Group Ltd. © Copyright Time Out Group Ltd 2015 4 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & bcnshop.com Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & bcnshop.com 5 The BCN_NOV 2015 hot list SUNDAY MONDAY 01 02 Tots Sants Jazz and Blues Cycle Traditions Music Day of remembrance and Milano Cocktail Bar almond cakes. See p. 36 hosts concerts. See p. 44 THURSDAY FRIDAY SUNDAY 05 06 08 Novembre The violin of Isabelle Faust Benvenuto Cellini Dance Music Opera Performance at La 5JQUVCMQXKEJoUƁTUV Colourful take on Hector Pedrera. See p. 53 symphony. See p. 45 Berlioz work. See p. 46 Un cau de mil secrets. A new music season starts at La (GOKPKUVƁNOU(TGGUETGGPKPIUCVVJG%%%$QHƁNOU DON’T MISS! Pedrera with this specially written piece. SAT 7 (see p.46) from around the world. FRI 6-SUN 8 (see p. 36) MONDAY SUNDAY FRIDAY SUNDAY 09 15 20 22 Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis Campionat de Catalunya... Gospel Concert 92nd Jean Bouin Run Music Motor racing Charity event Sport Jean-Christophe Spinosi Barcelona track hosts Fundraising for local Spain’s oldest road race conducts. See p. 46 two contests. See p. 38 kids’ charity. See p. 48 returns. See p. 40 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SUNDAY 25 26 27 29 Neneh Cherry Mamma Mía! Black Friday Barça vs Real Sociedad Music Musical theatre Shopping Football The singer is on a Spanish version of hit Special offers at many The San Sebastián side European tour. See p. 48 Abba show. See p. 52 city shops. See p. 32 visit Camp Nou. See p. 40 6 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & bcnshop.com I love BCN Fabra Observatory www.fabra.cat Not only does this place offer What am I splendid city panoramas, its telescope lets us probe the skies. doing here? Jan Fleischer The ins and outs of cool Who’s to say what makes Barcelona EQQN!1-UQYGoXGƁNNGFCHGY pages doing just that, but what’s great about this city is that it’s an anything-goes type of town. There may be an entire underworld of hipsters or yuccies or whatever the latest fall-off-the-edgy trend is now, but what do your average metro- taking beer-drinking residents consider to be the true spirit of the city? And what do visitors cite as their main reason for checking it out? Maybe it’s the sunshine and the sea, making it so you can act out the beach volleyball scene from Top Gun even in November. Or the great coffee, wine and cusine tempting us into BCN and out to its DCTUCPFGCVGTKGU9JGP+ƁTUVIQV to town, a night out in Razzmatazz was the best, and Razz still tops the list of spots to be in ‘Barna’ (as the cool kids call the city). And now the vermouth hour has come back into fashion, so who am I to turn my nose up? Count me in – olives, little XKPCIGT[ƁUJCPFCNN#DKIRCTVQH what makes Barna so special is the people. There’s a general live-and- let-live attitude, and everyone’s fairly easy-going when it comes to time and punctuality. Still, some stuff that might be cool where WTF IS... [QWoTGHTQOFQGUPoVPGEGUUCTKN[Ƃ[ Learn to speak Barcelona with our vocab guide | By Jan Fleischer here (and vice versa). Be sure to check out our list of dos and don’ts on page 17 to keep from embarrassing yourself beyond repair. Be cool by just being you. Cigaló Unless you want to wear socks with sandals. Or sandals full stop. It is November, after all. Want a little kick in your java? Ordering a cigaló (see-gah-LO) will get you a small coffee with a splash of alcohol, such as Baileys or rum. Though cigaló Jan has never seen Top Gun. is the Catalan word, most locals use the Spanish carajillo (car-ah-HEE-oh). Except the volleyball scene. Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & bcnshop.com 7 People of Barcelona Ivan Kovacevic BCN: Musician 38 years old TOP SECRET By Begoña García You came to Barcelona to study music. Yes, at the Aula de Música _Above the door of Moderna i Jazz, which has an agreement with the prestigious the Museu Frederic Berklee College in Boston. I soon Marès (Pl. Sant started playing in clubs and on the street. The city seemed very open Iu, 5) is a shield to me, and it was easier to with a sword and perform than it is now. cross – symbol You come from Serbia, a country of the Spanish that is, and especially was, quite isolated. Inquisition. A musician needs to be able to _Gustave travel, and it was impossible to do that there other than to go to a (NCWDGTVoUƁTUV neighbouring country such as story, ‘Bibliomanie’ Montenegro or Hungary. (published when he Why do you think vintage music, was 14), was based such as rock ’n’ roll, was so appealing to you? on the supposed I was attracted by the energy and MARIA DIAS trial of a Barcelona freedom of American music. And the sexuality, which is very Have you been comfortable as a bookshop owner present in black music – it’s 70 Serbian in recent years? accused of murder. percent of it. European music is Well, I’ve never felt a big need to missing that element. When I was identify myself with a country – we _C/Ataülf in Ciutat seven, I was already a fan of Elvis all have roots, but what matters is Presley, and then, later, of Stray the people. I like Barcelona Vella is named after Cats. It’s been strange to talk to because there are lots of the eponymous friends here and discover that foreigners, making it more open. they, in parallel, went through the AN OBJECT: LAMP POST Visigoth king who same process. IN C/ DEL SOL Have you been back to perform in made Barcelona Kovacevic chose this spot to have your country? You play rock ’n’ roll, jazz and his photo taken for the sleeve of Yes, absolutely, and in all of the the centre of his blues with Nu Niles, Mambo the album made with his quintet. former Yugoslavia. We’ll be going empire. He was Jambo and the Barcelona Big there to make a documentary with Blues Band, and now gypsy and the Orchestra. killed in the city in Jewish music from eastern August AD 415. Europe with the Barcelona Gipsy Balkan music here is particularly Klezmer Orchestra.
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  • Press Dossier Autumn 2007

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    PRESS DOSSIER AUTUMN 2007 Some 244 activities will take place in the last quarter of 2007, forming part of 78 programmes and series of activities that make up the overall event that is Barcelona Science 2007. Barcelona will become a leading centre of scientific debate with the organization of 4 international meetings: the Scientific Congress of the European Association of Osseointegration (EAO), the European Network of Cities for Science (ESCITY), the Waterbird Society 31st Annual Meeting and the European Conference on Scientific Journalism. Reflection also has a space in these series, with The Myth of Origins. Belief and Science, at the Natural Science Museum, and Conversations in Barcelona, in the Palau de la Virreina. As part of the celebrations held on the occasion of Barcelona Science 2007, a tribute will be paid to Pius Font i Quer, founder of the Barcelona Botanical Institute. Raúl Motta, philosopher and disciple of Edgar Morin; Faraneh Vargha- Khadem, doctor; Samir Zeki, neurobiologist, and Roger Malina, astrophysicist and publisher will participate in the second part of the series of meetings Conversations in Barcelona. The Future(s) of Science. Barcelona research centres will hold open days in the framework of Science Week, which will take place from 9 to 18 November. The Science Ticket, arising out of Barcelona Science 2007, has become firmly established and will continue for the coming years. The Science Ticket provides admission to 7 science centres for an overall price of €18.50. Press dossier 2 TRIBUTE TO PIUS FONT I QUER The Barcelona Botanical Institute will remember the figure of its founder and first Director, Pius Font i Quer, with the unveiling of a plaque in his honour on Saturday 20 October at the Institute building in Passeig del Migdia, in Montjuïc.