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Report by Louis Hearn on 8 Jan 2010
X1: Adult film in 3D from Barcelona

Omar and Isabel have just fulfilled the dream of many a film school graduate: they have made their first feature-length movie with nationally renowned actors. What’s more, the new film, entitled X1, will be the first European porno in 3D.

The film would have been an ambitious undertaking even for a seasoned filmmaker. After collaborating on several short erotic films, one of which, Daily Pleasures, was featured in the Festival Erótico de Barcelona and the magazine Primera Línea, the two producers felt they needed a bigger challenge.

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Essay by Louis Hearn on 16 Dec 2009
Spain bans smoking in all closed public places

Jordi was a big Barça fan. There was nothing he loved more than pounding back a few Estrella Damms, smoking a pack or two of Marlboros and cagandose in some Madridistas. Nothing, except maybe picking up some fine ladies and bringing them back to his place to make sweet love.

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Photo Essay by Joseph Wilson on 10 Dec 2009
Las Tres Chimeneas

The chimney stacks of the Sant Adrià de Besòs power plant are hard to miss. Any sunbather lolling away a lazy Sunday afternoon on one of the beaches stretching northwards from Barceloneta will inevitably have the three bronzed spires looming over his or her shoulder, casting their silhouettes across the sand like some gigantic sun dial counting off the weekend’s dwindling hours.