Los Desastres de la Guerra Civil Española. La Represión En Bilbao (Julio de 1936 - Junio de 1937) (Spanish Edition)
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bilbao, Spain - Two days after a series of destructive protests, thousands of Basques demonstrated peacefully late Saturday in Bilbao against the arrest of 34 members of a youth organization police say is connected to the radical separatist organizat...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The former financial director of Spain's Guggenheim Bilbao has been sentenced to 32 months in jail for stealing nearly half a million euros (750,000 dollars) from the museum's accounts, the court said Friday. Roberto Cearsolo admitted taking the money between 1998 and 2008 through small transactions dealing with two companies related to the museum after an audit last year detected the money was missing....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Bilbao, Spain - Radical separatists burned a bus and set fire to an underground station in Spain's Basque region overnight, officials said Friday. The supporters of the militant ETA group ordered the bus driver and passengers off the vehicle before t...
Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The 2010 SXSW Music Festival is fast approaching with only about four months to go. The week-long festival is once again retuning to Austin, Texas next year from March 17-21. To get attendees pumped up for next years event organizers have revealed the first couple hundred acts to play the fest. Among the acts announced are The Boxer Rebellion , The View , Riverboat Gamblers , and We Are Scientists...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
SXSW : Aa (Brooklyn NY) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (Osaka JAPAN ) A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY ) Alpha Rev (Austin TX) Amaral (Madrid SPAIN ) And So I Watch You From Afar (Belfast IRELAND ) Apostle of Hustle (Toronto ON) Arms (Brooklyn NY) Ólöf Arnalds (Reykjavik ICELAND ) Art vs Science (Surry Hills NSW ) A Shoreline Dream (Denver CO) Nicole Atkins and The...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Highlights include Yellow Fever, Harlem, We Are Scientists, Solid Gold, Soulico, San Saba County, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Riverboat Gamblers, Plants and Animals, Princeton, Pink Nasty, Pivot, Monarchs, The Middle East, Japandroids, Headdress, Colin Gilmore, Frightened Rabbit, Fanfarlo, Deer Tick, Dappled Cities, Contra Coup, Best Fwends, Ólöf Arnalds, Arms, A Shoreline Dream,...
Planet Timba™ (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
These are some concerts close to your city, and enjoy the live performances of Pupy Y los que Son Son performing his latest hit "Vino a comerse ala Habana" just to let you know you all that the first gig will be In Toronto Canada, and finishing in Italy. These are the next shows we got for you all. Here are the dates Friday, 23 October 2009 The Phoenix Concert Theatre 410 Sherbourne street...
Luxurylaunches.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Royal Conservatory’s Telus Centre for Performance and Learning in Toronto has been designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) and just completed. The idea behind the cultural space was not just to create a venue for arty and cultural events but to create a sort of "Bilbao Effect". The Bilbao Effect can be loosely described as a situation where a single architectural...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
BILBAO, Spain — Shunsuke Nakamura made a low-key debut in the Spanish first division Sunday as Espanyol went down 1-0 away to Athletic Bilbao in its season-opener. Nakamura made little impact and was booked in the second half of his side's first competitive match since the recent death of former captain Dani Jarque from a heart attack. Read the full story
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
The Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Its capital is Vitoria, its biggest city is Bilbao.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
The Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Its capital is Vitoria, its biggest city is Bilbao.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
The Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Its capital is Vitoria, its biggest city is Bilbao.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
BILBAO, Spain -- Before home soccer games in this Basque city, local fans wearing their team's red-and-white jersey cram into bars and streets around the San Mames stadium and chant, full-throated, Athletic Bilbao's traditional call to arms.
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
by Neve Gordon "...... I consequently have decided to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that was launched by Palestinian activists in July 2005 and has since garnered widespread support around the globe . The objective is to ensure that Israel respects its obligations under international law and that Palestinians are granted the right to self-determination. In Bilbao, Spain,...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Much has changed in Spain's Basque Country over the three and a half decades since dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975. The huge, titanium-plated Guggenheim museum on the banks of the river Nervión in Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, is perhaps the most obvious symbol of modernity in this industrialised northern region. But there are plenty of other developments that are important...
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