The Keen edge

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Opinion

Barcelona, city of voices: three concerts

Bernat Dedéu
When one considers the intangible heritage of Barcelona's history (a somewhat nebulous category, subsuming ideas as disparate as bedtime folk tales or the craft of sculpting a trencadís mosaic), one must inevitably speak of its voices. Within the spheres of opera and art song, our city has given birth to...
Josep Lluís Sert
Opinion

My Sert

Bernat Dedéu
Time marches on, days grow steadily shorter, and as I drift into middle age, it grieves me deeply to realise I will never have time to learn all that I would wish. Among all these thwarted passions lies architecture, of which I know next to nothing – and, more specifically,...
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Opinion

Ghost massages

Bernat Dedéu
Any Barcelonan wandering through Ciutat Vella will have been struck by the massive proliferation of small massage and manicure parlours, mostly run by our Asian fellow citizens and advertised exclusively in English (a detail that speaks to the undeniable success of the work being done by our City Council’s brand-new...