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Dj Miguel Picasso: 'Europe is the main source of house music worldwide'

In front | INTERVIEW
In June DJ Picasso was number one on the Beatport house list | Photo: Pedro Jaen/ pedrojaen.com

The Spanish DJ, musician and composer from Malaga teaches in a music academy in Fuengirola. A successful remix has helped him hit the top of the world house music charts, in a genre becoming ever-popular in Europe

by Pedro Picón // 11/07/08

INVESTIGATION
Construction, one of the pillars of Spanish economy, is in recession (Photo: anroir/ Flickr)

Spain’s ‘Silicon Valley’ in Malaga

Spain lives with the feeling that economic crisis is hot on its heels. This is the prefect occasion to redefine its growth model that is currently based in tourism and construction

by Aurélien Le Genissel // 02/07/08

(Photo: Bénedicte Salzes)

Seville - always on the move

The Andalusian staples of tapas and flamenco are metaphors for a city that is always on the move, without sacrificing its traditions.

AGENDA
The face of Expo Zaragoza 2008 (Image: Expo Zaragoza 2008)

Expo Zaragoza 2008 - at boiling point

On 14 June the International Zaragoza Expo opens its doors to the public, the sixth time that the exhibition has taken place on European soil in twenty years

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 05/06/08

FEATURE
(Illustration: Henning Studte)

Too many bank holiday Mondays

by Philippe-Alexandre Saulnier // 23/05/08

ANALYSIS
Gulf of Aden coastline (Photo: Hoorob/ Flickr)

Modern pirates use GPS in Somalia

Recent attacks on Spanish and French ships highlight the insecurity of maritime activities. The EU is confronted by a challenge which puts its capacity to create a policy protecting common security into question

by Mélanie Bulan & Joaquín Salido Marcos // 05/05/08

(Illustration: Henning Studte)

Broke joes

by Katharina Kloss // 23/04/08

(Illustration: Henning Studte)

Bun in the oven

by Jane Mery // 16/04/08

AGENDA

Go out in April: Uppsala, nerds and witches

Enjoy the year's first rays at Walpurgis night in Sweden, a vintage computer festival in Munich or the spring festival in Seville

by Karsten Marhold // 09/04/08

'The Old House Under the Snow' was Hughes' first story to be translated abroad, into Serbian (Foto: Fabio Scetti)

Rhys Hughes: 'the Welsh are very proud'

The British short-story writer, 41, cites Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau as his influences, discusses literature, lipograms and Iberia - and why the boy from Wales only publishes in certain languages

by Fabio Scetti // 04/04/08

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by dionizas // 20/12/07

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by Indre // 16/09/07




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