Subject: Barcelona

• Benni Hemm Hemm, Adam Franklin, Samba Mapangala -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Monday, July 16

  July 16, 2007

• LastNight: Sonic Youth Proves Ageless at the Berkeley Community Theater

  July 20, 2007

• Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

  January 21, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Barcelona indie rock sampler

  June 13, 2008

• TiVo Alert: Bourdain on Spain Will Drive Foodies Berserk

  August 21, 2008

• Friday Night: El Guincho at the Independent

  El GuinchoFriday, Nov. 21, 2008The Independent ( 628 Divisadero St.)Review by Jennifer MaerzBetter than: Watching your friends play Guitar Hero to Animal Collective. I imagine that being a one-man band is pretty sweet in a lot of ways. You never have to argue with your bandmates about what a song should sound like. You can practice and record whenever you want. And when you play a show or sell a CD, you pocket all the money.But then what happens when you have a really well produced stu

  November 23, 2008

• YouTube Live, No Pants Party and Of Montreal: Your Monday Morning Hangover

  Weekend recap by Janine KahnThe bad news is, it's Monday. The good news? This is bound to be one short week! All Shook Down will likely be mostly crickets and echoes this Thursday and Friday as our crew heads out to spend time with their respective clans, so we overdid it this past weekend to make it up to you in advance. Here's what went down...On Friday, our Ashley Harrell witnessed the second coming of Jesus watched as Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes leaped out of a silver box hauled onto t

  November 24, 2008

• "Still a Little Magic" by Miss Van at Fifty24SF

  From Barcelona, Spain by way of Toulousse, France, Miss Van brings her iconic images of "poupees," -- dolls with wide eyes and luscious curves -- to our very own Fifty24SF Gallery this winter. Miss Van's latest solo showing, Still a Little Magic, presents a collection of her trademark poupee imagery made famous on the streets of Europe, and also exlpores the world of theater and charade under the big top tents. Still a Little Magic opens with a reception Dec. 4 from 7-9:30 p.m., and will remain

  November 25, 2008

• Track of the Day: Filastine

  "Singularities" by Barcelona-based globetripper Filastine is an evocative track, stirring up cinematic images of emotional worlds crashing to a disastrous, beautiful collapse. There's an evil edge to the stuttered string samples and scattering beats in the song, similar to the soundtrack Kronos Quartet composed for Requiem For A Dream but much more schizophrenic. It's a richly textured tune, much like the rest of the electronic composer's catalog--which tours through the Balkans, Latin America,

  March 23, 2009

• Antonio Gaudi

  December 31, 2008

• The Art of Zen (Honk!)

  December 24, 2008

• El Guincho’s global beats take flight

  November 19, 2008

• Schedule Outside Lands trip with playlists of our favorite artists

  August 20, 2008

• The Young Man's Dream

  Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.

  August 13, 2008

• Pretty in Pink

  August 13, 2008

• Mighty Aphrodites

  Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest.

  August 13, 2008

• Little GoCars are big polluters

  August 6, 2008

• Summer Grows Up

  The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

  May 7, 2008

• Private Eyes

  February 20, 2008

• The Sounds of Sweden

  September 12, 2007

• Small Plates, Big Array

  In the restaurant-happy Presidio, you'll find global cuisine and an impressive wine selection

  January 31, 2007

• Lemonade samples the world on the way to the dance floor

  November 22, 2006

• Flamenco con Fusión

  September 13, 2006

• Prenuptual Aggrievement

  July 26, 2006

• Nabe Faves

  When you're in the mood for eating — rather than fine dining — we've got three new neighborhood ethnic spots for you

  July 12, 2006

• Garage punks wryly needle religion; jazz stars skewer Orwellian politics

  May 17, 2006

• Sitting Pretty

  August 31, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, July 6, 2005

  July 6, 2005

• Best Barcelona Experience

  May 14, 2003

• House of Tudor

  May 7, 2003

• Real to Reel

  Week 2 of the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival

  April 23, 2003

• Spanish Fly

  October 2, 2002

• Rock 'n' Bowl

  Rock Soup

  February 27, 2002

• Hear This

  Experimental composer Koji Asano explores the beauty and terror of electronic sound

  April 25, 2001

• Tapa the Mark

  April 18, 2001

• Cirque du Supper

  March 14, 2001

• Night Crawler

  May 24, 2000

• Best Spanish Restaurant

  May 17, 2000

• En Español

  B44

  May 17, 2000

• Homage to Catalonia

  December 31, 1997

• Spanish Mainstream

  December 18, 1996

• Early Bird Special: Contigo

  Jen SiskaContigoAfter scarfing pork-belly bocaditos and octopus salad at Contigo in Noe Valley, SF Weekly food critic Matthew Stafford gets all dreamy thinking about the vacay he took in Barcelona. Stafford thinks chef-owner Brett Emerson gets all the details right in this local simulacrum of the Catalan tapas bar. Drool over the full review later today at sfweekly.com. Meantime, here's a taste: The similarities between the Bay Area and Catalonia are striking. Both regions have a fierce independ

  May 5, 2009

• Contigo takes a bite out of Catalan

  May 6, 2009

• I Heart Street Art: Valencia Trip

   A couple weeks ago I was walking around Valencia, Spain, looking for street art, when I came across an ancient Roman bridge with graffiti all over it.  First it struck me as offensive, like who would dare deface something so old and hallowed?  But then I started thinking about the epicness of it. It's a juxtaposition we'll just never see here in the new world -- contemporary street art on a thousand-year-old structure. Moreover, it's everlasting vs. everlasting! Everlasting Roman

  June 23, 2009

• I Heart Street Art: Green Thumb

  As you know, I've taken a number of trips in recent weeks. Valencia, Barcelona, Berlin, Memphis. But none so foreign a destination as Sunnyside. Sunnyside is a sunny San Francisco neighborhood somewhere between Glen Park and City College -- clean, quiet, residential. Not a lot of street art. Except for this lone hidden gem by D-Know.

  July 7, 2009

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Nisus

  ​There are DJs who log a lotta miles, and then there's Nisus. While other vinyl slingers rack up passenger time on airlines, this guy has spent the summer getting between gigs in Germany, France, Spain, and Switzerland by bike. Overall he  traveled, (two wheel-style), across 1,300 miles, and still had the energy to spin at various gigs in little discos along the way. Tonight marks this homecoming for this Blasthaus/Solid Gold Jacuzzi/Look Out Weekend regular, and he'll be spinning as one

  August 7, 2009

• Early Bird Special: Trademark

  K. Todd Storch/FlickrBelden Alley: S.F.'s urban Epcot now has an American place.​An early nibble of the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Like some urban, particularly fragrant Epcot Center, Belden Alley has long offered the city a taste of global cuisines. Well, recognizably Euro cuisines, what with Plouf and Café Bastille, Café Tiramisu, and the Barcelona copycat B44. But where the vodka bar Voda once offered a taste of, well, Vegas, stands Trademark (56 Belden at Pine), a restaurant d

  August 25, 2009

• Trademark invades a Eurocentric street with fresh American fare

  August 26, 2009

• Congratulations, San Francisco -- Tens of Thousands of Out of Towners Feel We're 'Happy'

  Can you see the happiness? ​If ever there were an inane list of cities that place well in inane lists -- San Francisco would, inanely, make a hell of a showing. And there's something seemingly even more inane than normal about the latest elite list the city has found itself on -- apparently, Disneyland be damned, we're the happiest place on earth. Or among the happiest, at least. Since this was a list complied for Forbes magazine, however, it's always worth a look. That's because the resea

  September 9, 2009

• The Eight Best Places on Earth for Foodie Vacations

  San Francisco may be the food capital of the United States (at least in our minds), but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other destinations worthy of gastro-tourism this fall. Fasten your seat belt (and undo the top button of your jeans) as we take you to some of our global favorites.​1. Barcelona, SpainFrom tapas and vast food markets to flowing cava and even a burgeoning gastronomical deconstructionist movement (you know, at that restaurant outside the city you'll never, ever ge

  October 5, 2009