GenXpat: A Book Review

Read my review of Margaret Malewski’s GenXpat online at the American Citizens Abroad website.Here’s the link. You’ll have to scroll down to GenXpat under the list of reviewed books and click on the title.www.aca.ch/cadacabo.htm

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April 19th, 2006 | No Comments

Catalonian Christmas Carols

Yesterday I went to church, and at the end of the service Juan, the guy who makes announcements, mentioned that anyone who wanted to be in the Christmas choir could meet at the front of the room after the service.
A friend of mine had recently told me if I ever had the chance, I should […]

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November 15th, 2005 | No Comments

Pink Tones Live in Concert at Sala Sol

Smoke fills the stage. Lasers green as kryptonite scan the crowd. People are pulsing with this familiar beat. Alvaro Espinosa, lead singer and guitarist, pulls away from the microphone, and the entire room bursts into song, singing words we’ve remembered since our childhood: “We don’t need no education.” Alvaro rattles his guitar again, and we […]

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May 2nd, 2005 | No Comments

Still Life at the Conde Duque

In my neighborhood there’s a cultural center called the Conde Duque that has an art gallery with free admission. My friend Matt and I were walking by the gallery yesterday and I noticed a new exhibition was up, so we decided to stop in and take a look.
The exhibition, Fast Forward: Media Art […]

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March 7th, 2005 | No Comments

The Cottage

Last night I was clicking through old files on my laptop from the Spring semester of 2000 when I was a study-abroad student in Amsterdam–my first taste of life in Europe.
I dug up this essay about a lesser-known painting of Vincent Van Gogh called The Cottage. I thought it had some interesting things […]

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February 4th, 2005 | No Comments

Buying Movie Tickets Online

If you want a good seat for the newest film, or your Spanish doesn’t go much beyond hola and the thought of facing the person behind the ticket window at the movie theater without any words to defend yourself sends you running for your dictionary, here’s an easy solution. All you need is a credit […]

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September 24th, 2004 | No Comments

MartĂ­n Buscaglia

Through the doorway at the back of the bar at CafĂ© Libertad 8 is a small room with a few tables. In one corner is a small stage with an old piano, the likes of which I’ve only seen in the home of my grandmother. An African drum is lying on its side, and a […]

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September 5th, 2004 | No Comments

Les Misérables

April and I only knew two things about what we were going to do on holiday in London before we left. One. We were going to see Les MisĂ©rables. Two. We would have terrible seats–we were going to get the cheapest tickets we could find. I threw the binoculars in […]

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July 12th, 2004 | No Comments

Compañía Nacional de Danza 2

I haven’t had many experiences with watching dance performances. Before I moved to Madrid, my experience didn’t go any further than my sister-in-law’s 6th grade dance recital, which involved about 50 acts crammed into 2 hours, and about 200 too many family members piled on top of each other in a box theater that […]

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June 4th, 2004 | No Comments