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Primavera Sound 2009 lineup Thursday 28th of May My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Phoenix, Squarepusher, The Vaselines, Spectrum, Andrew Bird, Jay Reatard, Lightning Bolt, The Bats, Marnie Stern, Dead Meadow, Ponytail, Ebony Bones, Wooden Shjips, The Bug, Bowerbirds, Joe Crepúsculo y Los Destructores, Wavves, The Tallest Man On Earth, Women, Magik [...]

Woody Allen’s new film, announced as a romantic comedy, is far superior to the disastrous Match Point and Cassandra’s Dream (Scoop, his second London film, has yet to be shown here), but much inferior to his best work. It centres on the adventures of two broadly defined young Americans in Spain, film-maker and photographer Cristina [...]

Jose Antonio Maldonado, 64, presented daily weather bulletins on the national network TVE for 22 years, but he took early retirement last year after the simple operation to improve his looks went wrong. The operation known as blepharoplasty, should have been a simple one to remove droopy skin around the eyes making him look younger, but [...]

A meeting will take place later today in Barcelona between representatives of the UGT trades union and the directors of Burberry after the company revealed that it was shedding 250 jobs in the region. A few years ago, the company closed its main British factory and is now producing in China, with another UK plant expected [...]

You already know this feeling: you wake up in the morning and you can´t get up from your lovely warm bed without music, you want to take a shower, but you can´t do it without switching on the radio, you drink a coffee to start the new day while you are listening to your favourite [...]

Arrivals of foreign tourists to Spain, the world’s second biggest tourist destination, plummeted in November as top customers Britons and Germans stayed at home during the global economic slowdown. Arrivals fell 11.6% in the month from a year earlier, the first double-digit decline in years, with British visitors down 15% and 7% fewer Germans, Spain’s Industry, [...]

Spanish property company Metrovacesa (MVC.MC) said on Monday it would insist French real estate group Gecina (GFCP.PA) implements a spin-off plan agreed between the two companies in February last year. On Friday, Gecina said it had suspended plans to split from key shareholder Metrovacesa pending execution of a bank-led restructuring of the indebted Spanish property firm. The [...]

I don’t know if anyone’s going to agree with me on this but the Barça v Real Madrid game wasn’t that much of a deal the other night. I mean, every Culé worth his salt was hoping for a 6 – O goalfest but it was not to be. I just hope Barcelona fans recognise that [...]

Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola on Monday scoffed at suggestions by Real Madrid’s Bernd Schuster that the Spanish champions have no chance against their arch-rivals in this weekend’s ‘El Clásico’. “It’s not possible to win at the Nou Camp. Barça crushes everyone, it’s their year,” Schuster said late on Sunday after his club’s 4-3 defeat to Sevilla [...]

Regional Justice minister, Montserrat Tura, acting on behalf of the Catalan government, has asked the British publication ‘The Economist’ for a rectification and an apology for a report about regional devolution in which former Cataluña president, Jordi Pujol, is described as a ‘cacique’, which is rendered in the article as “provincial political boss”, but which [...]