Scharf Report Barcelona Updates

Art:
Silvina Montaner
Argentinean silver jewelry designer is featuring her super guay and unique rings and necklaces in 5 Elements Spa
Thursday, October 17th 8:30 PM
c/ Pelayo 44, 6, 2 www.spa5elements.com or call 93.412.3133 for details
*note: For an unknown reason the number is incorrect in the Metropolitan
** better note: There will be wine and snacks and then after we'll probably head over to Domestic on Diputación behind the UB, so hope to see you there.

CCCB: Gisèle Freund. The world and my camera . Through November 3.
Her best-known portraits are of such great literary figures as André Malraux, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Simone de Beauvoir. But she also preserved for history images of other personalities, including Evita Perón, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Matisse, Man Ray and many others. € 4 closed Mondays

Filmoteca - features classics usually in VO for only 2,70 euros (2 for students) Classics including An Affair to Remember, West Side Story, and Casablanca. Also, Sunday afternoons are kids movies including the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Avinguda Sarrià, 33. Tel: 93 410 75 90 - Metro: Hospital Clínic (línia 5) http://cultura.gencat.es/filmo for movie times
Version Original Theaters are discounted one night a week.
Verdi/ Verdi Park Calle Verdi, 32 Tel: 93.238.79.90 Mondays 4 €
Icaria Calle Salvador Espriu, 61 Tel: 93.221.75.85 Mondays 4 €
MÉLIÈS CINEMES Calle Villarroel, 102 Tel: 93.451.00.51 Mondays 2.7 € classics
RENOIR - LES CORTS C/ Eugeni d´Or, 12 Tel:93.490.55.10 Wednesdays 3.9 €

www.vealcine.com for movie times
Renoir opened another theater. Near c/ San Antoni and Casanova RENOIR FLORIDABLANCA Calle Floridablanca, 135 Mondays 3.9 € map

Theater:
Los Monólogos de la Vagina until October 27 Wed. - Fri 9:30pm; Satuday 6:30 & 9:30pm; Sunday 7pm Wed & Thur 16 euros. Fri, Sat, Sun, and holidays 19 euros Club Capitol on the top of las Ramblas.

Theater info in BCN : Schedules

Discounts: Don't forget to check Tourist Information in Plaza Catalunya for discount tickets for shows after 5pm for day-of tickets.

Apartments:
Lots of people looking for apartments are contacting me, and no one with a flat to rent is, so check out www.habitatgejove.com, International House c/ Trafalger 14

Urquinaona and the University for postings. If I hear of anything else, I'll keep you posted. For Sale:
Top floor apartment in Barceloneta. 3 rooms 34m2, terrace with a view 22m2, Refinished. Newly furnished. Ceramic floors. 135,225 Euros Call 654.838.946

Music:
For a bunch of really fun live, free bands that usually perform in Irish Pubs, etc. www.TheDifficultTimes.com has dates, times locations, and info about the bands.

Books:
To follow up on the Metropolitan Interview (October Issue page 10) with George Semler about how you might get BARCELONAWALKS, see www.georgesemler.com. It's a great way for you and your visiting guests to get to know Barcelona better than ever before. International journalist George Semler shows you the morsels that bring people and places to life.

Food:
The best PIZZA in BCN
La Bella Napoli 2 locations
c/Villaroel right above Consell de Cent or in Poble Sec c/ Margarit 14, Tel: 93 442 5056.
GREAT INDIAN is finally available in BCN! If you ask for spicy, you get it. Tandoor c/Calabria, 144, tel:93 425 3206.

Seta Season:
Don't forget to take your pick of sizes and shapes of wild mushrooms at your local markets or the Boqueria. A rain summer and fall has lead to some great ones. Large or small, wash them well, cut them into fork full sizes stick them in a pan and let them cook in their own juices that come out as you heat them, add garlic, and parsley or whatever you'd like.

For those of you who saw or missed the brilliant, foreign correspondent, Robert Fisk last month in the CCCB, and the article featured in EL PAIS on Saturday, Sept 28. Check out his writing at www.independent.co.uk.

Let me know who has the scoop on the Halloween scene so I can pass it on.

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Hasta la proxima,
christine