The neighbors of Park Güell have had enough. Used to be, they could walk around in peace and observe the unnatural beauty of the grounds designed by Barcelona’s favorite shrooming architect. Now it seems that every day the common rabble of the Ramblas is moving further up the hill. Where there used to be only a few sunburnt guiris (1.6 million in 2000, to be exact), there is now an annual flood of 4 million tourists who come to have their picture taken next to the happy lizard.
And just …

“Good evening … probably,” was how Morrissey greeted his audience after arriving on stage at a concert last night in Swindon, Wiltshire.

According to The Guardian, the 50-year-old former Smiths frontman then jumped into a rendition of This Charming Man and promptly collapsed, suffering from respiratory problems. As he was being pulled offstage by band members, the crowd reportedly began booing.

He was taken by ambulance to Great Western hospital. A spokesman for the hospital has described his condition as stable.

Morrissey has already talked about retiring within 5 years, saying, “It’s very …

Finally, La Pedrera brings us an exhibit we can really sink our teeth into. Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was a scupltor, painter and visionary. Unlike a lot of those confrontational artsy types of the twentieth century, Maillol was a man who knew what his audience liked and gave them lots of it.

Originally from Rousillon (French Catalonia), Maillol moved to Paris in 1881 and became friends with art badboy Paul Gauguin. While Gaugin passed his time painting nubile Tahitian girls, he encouraged Maillol to take up the gentler art form of tapestry.