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Buñol Exports Culture to the USA

Buñol Exports Culture to the USA

‘The Great Bull Run and Tomato Royale’ is the name given by the good citizens of Richmond, Virginia to a festival that is being celebrated for the first time, and…

DAZE OF DAWN – Interview about the band and new album SOFA KING COOL

Klyde talks about Daze of Dawn the band and the new album: SOFA KING COOL (Clamrecords 2013). About the Album and how we got here in the first place. This…

Miguel and the Magic House

Miguel and the Magic House

Miguel Gil Lluch was born in Godella in 1964, although he then spent thirty years in Moncada, including a spell as a student at the Patronato (Colegio de San José)…

SURFING THE USA WITH CORO CORCHEAS

SURFING THE  USA WITH CORO CORCHEAS

Merecedes Villegas, a retired English teacher at IES Campanar accompanied a Valencia choir (Coro Corcheas)  to the USA in the summer of 2013. Like quavers on sheet music, a group…

‘The Way’ to Get more Tourists

While the tourist authorities scratch their heads and wonder how to increase the number of tourists, one not very good film is achieving just that. According to Koldo Lasarte of…

Folk-Jazz-Arabe on Film

Folk-Jazz-Arabe on Film

Valencian British-Portuguese-Morrocan Soundtrack for Valencian Azerbaijan Documentary   A Valencian-based British-Portuguese-Morrocan group has provided the soundtrack for a Valencian documentary about Spanish pilots in Azerbaijan during World War II. Actually…

Adapted Sports by Rafael Ibañez

Adapted Sports by Rafael Ibañez

Hello! I am Rafael, that is clear. I am a 16-year-old boy (this was written in 2011) and I live in Spain. But this text isn’t about me in particular.…

Chess Legends Karpov and Kasparov Brought it All Back Home (to Valencia)

Chess Legends Karpov and Kasparov Brought it All Back Home (to Valencia)

Russian chess legends Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov renewed their rivalry in a showdown in Valencia in September 2011, where they played a 12-game match with four rapid games and…

Trenes Kits Altarriba: A Model for a Successful Little Shop

Trenes Kits Altarriba: A Model for a Successful Little Shop

Jorge Altarriba is a realist and knows that in a world of increasing hypermarkets and shopping centres dominated by multi-national giants, the little shop must specialize or die. The Altarriba…

Valencian Technology Speeds Recovery

Valencian Technology Speeds Recovery

Athletes are back on the track thanks to Lafitt The Valencian hi-tech company Lafitt, in collaboration with the American company Cascade Medical and the New York Hospital for Special Surgery,…