One of my favorite neighborhoods in Ciutat de Palma, or Palma de Mallorca, is Santa Catalina, across the way from Paseo de Mallorca and Carrer Jaume III, one of the city’s most elegant shopping streets. The reason I like this area so much is that […]
The enormous structure is made up of twisted cable, broken tile, slapdash cement, brick and plenty of blue painted iron. It looks like a child’s sandcastle, or a lopping Lego building, with brilliant flashes of beauty. This is the cathedral that Justo Gallego has been building for over 40 years with his bare hands in […]
The resilience of this thousand-year old practice can be seen at its most manifest in the form it takes in the urban environment. And the fullest expression of this is a relatively new practice center that I was introduced to recently: City Yoga.
I went there to try out an intensive practice given by Lauren Imparato […]
Things that I like about the city: there are bikes everywhere, no matter the weather. Most of the bikes are left on the sides of buildings and at posts without locks. The buildings are low. The Danish overall are tall and slim and attractive. After a few beers in the evening, they’re talkative and engaging. […]
I’m staying in the Frederiksberg section of Copenhagen. The main street has plenty of cafés and Italian eateries, as well as shops for clothes and the usual goods. My hosts have a lovely, spacious and remarkably uncluttered apartment, with plenty of windows.
One of the first things you notice here is how barely anyone has shades […]
This urban garden is doing more than just growing vegetables and herbs. Some local Brooklyn folks have banded together to collect street leaves, diverting them from landfills and converting them to “good fertile soil.” They turned an empty lot, destined for new condos, into a community garden, for veggies and flowers, even combating Guiliani to […]
Easter week this year, 2008, is next week. In Spain, the vast majority of the population will head for the hills…or, rather, the beaches, to enjoy the first warm rays of sun.
Much of the ritual and symbolism of the week has been lost. The days of Spain as a strictly and majority Catholic country, […]
Josh Soskin, a film maker living in Barcelona, offers a meditative video about what dirty laundry can really mean. Especially when you come from a culture where the “dirty laundry” and even the clean, is hidden from public view and our increasingly scarce resources are used to keep it so, his beautiful images and quiet […]
There is barely any other experience that can offer you a truer vision of the character of Madrid than a visit to the Rastro, the Sunday flea market. Sellers start to set up their stalls by 7:30 a.m., but opening hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. You can begin your stroll at the […]
There is some terrific graffiti to be found around the urban spaces. Here’s one prime example:
And here are some more, thanks to the contribution of Lynne Friedman, an American photographer and Madrid resident:
We have love, sex, strange beings and confusion on our city streets. Why not celebrate all this?
Who are these creatures that […]
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