SubjectCulture and leisure
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Over a short time, we have been caught in the throes of a dystopia almost without realising it: a global pandemic, lockdowns at home, devastating fires, drone strikes... In the midst of...
![Llibre: Tothom a taula! Retrats de l’ecosistema alimentari sostenible d’una Barcelona en transformació. Lucía Herrero (fotografia) i Jordi Bes Lozano (text) — Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibretothomataula_1100.jpg?itok=b57-MV4H)
As a rule, the word sustainability in relation to food is understood to be linked to the concepts of local, seasonal, organic, fresh produce and even generates limited waste....
![Il·lustració © Nicolás Aznárez](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/relat_1100x568.jpg?itok=qFXW3eKP)
It all happened the week of the Mobile World Congress. Nora was cleaning room 606 when she saw the porcelain teapot on the desk, like a paperweight on a bunch of Chinese documents, or so...
![Retrat de Vicenç Viaplana. © Mariona Gil](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_retrat_viaplana_1100.jpg?itok=IbiXCX2R)
Vicenç Viaplana
Never had so much work been exhibited and so much at the same time by the artist Vicenç Viaplana (Granollers, 1955). A truly free soul, advocate and researcher of painting, this spring...
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Gone with the wind. It was blowing fiercely there. It was a wind that didn’t come from any cardinal point, it fell perpendicularly from the sky and smashed you against the ground. On...
![Llibre: El bar Kike y Paca la Tomate. Nazario. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 160 pàgines — Barcelona, 2021](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_nazario_1100.jpg?itok=lhkM5dt_)
We are a bar culture. Every generation, every scene, has had its own, and each of these bars deserves a book like this one, because its history is the history of the collective...
![Llibre: La casa de foc. Francesc Serés. Edicions Proa, 592 pàgines — Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_francescseres_1100.jpg?itok=MQYyY1SS)
In La casa de foc [The House of Fire], Francesc Serés immerses us in the landscape of La Garrotxa, an antediluvian and terrestrial setting that plays host to characters who see...
![Llibre: Paraules d’Arcadi. Què hem après del món i com podem actuar. Arcadi Oliveres. Angle Editorial, 170 pàgines — Barcelona, 2021](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_arcadi_1100.jpg?itok=laWHqEI3)
Paraules d’Arcadi [Arcadi’s Words] is his last book, which I have had the privilege of editing. A compendium of concepts to gain a better understanding of how this world works (...
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