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Nicholas Fogarty | Fog over Catalonia  
N P Fogarty is an Australian born Irish New Zealander who has been living in Poble Nou for a year or so. His interests include rolling his own sushi and nodding and smiling politely when he doesn't understand what people are saying to him in Catalan or Castellano.

Articles

1st December 2006
Tattoos and graffiti
BCNeta's 'hermanos helados' are waging a war they cannot win

16th October 2006
A Man in a dress
More than a sweater in Barceloneta

6th September 2006
Learning Español
Fluent? Me? Let's call it a work in progress ...

29th June 2006
Burnt in Bogatell
A Bronze Adonis in Barcelona I am not ...



Nicholas Mead | The Big Picture  
Nicholas Mead is a British freelance journalist specialising in social, environmental and economic issues in Catalunya. He has contributed to several publications including Open Democracy, Z-Net, Time, Fortune, The Miami Herald, Barcelona Metropolitan, The Broadsheet, Resident, Le-Cool, Planet and S-Press.

Articles

6th November 2006
Taking the demo out of democracy
Democracy in Catalonia

17th May 2006
Cheap Getaways ...
But At What Price?

4th May 2006
The East European Exodus
Workers in Catalonia can only look on in envy



Alex Chumillas | Advice from Alex Chumillas  
Alex Chumillas is a Tax Expert and Economist based in Barcelona. He is a member of The Col·legi d’Economistes de Catalunya and of The British Chamber of Commerce in Spain. Alex will offer Barcelona Reporter readers a range of tips, advice and guidance on a range of personal, financial and employment matters.

Articles

30th October 2006
Inheritance and gift tax in Spain
(ISD) Impuesto de Sucesiones y Donaciones: what you need to know

27th April 2006
What type of taxes can you expect if buying or selling a property in Spain?
Buying and selling: property taxes in Spain

28th March 2006
Want to set up a company or work for yourself in Spain?
How to set up a company, or work as self-employed, in Spain



Marta S. Wendlinger | One 2 One Fashion  
One 2 One Fashion, created in California six years ago, whose founder Marta S. Wendlinger continues at its forefront, offers a complete range of fashion consulting and personal shopping services. As well as offering interactive conferences to entrepreneur and women’s groups, she publishes a fashion section in Catalonia Today; contributes to other media including El País; has appeared on TV programmes such as 'Els Nous Catalans' and will offer Barcelona Reporter a new 'Fashion Savvy or Fashion Faux Pas' page - a section where Marta will critique the dress sense and style of famous, and not so famous, locals.

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John Barrass | Catalonia Confidential  
Barcelona-based journalist John Barrass served a London apprenticeship at Haymarket Publishing in the eighties, and ran the newspaper Barcelona Business for six years. His freelance work includes pieces for the Sunday Telegraph, the BBC, various Spanish radio stations and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. John is producer of the English language programme Radio Free Barcelona (107.7 FM Saturday mornings in Barcelona and Castelldefels) and runs SpainMedia, a website taking a sideways look at news from Spain.

Articles

25th October 2006
Catalonia's What the Hell elections
A devilish DVD, an infernal TV debate and pacts to make a Mephistopheles quail. Notes from the campaign trail.

26th January 2006
Don’t panic: remember you’re democrats
Both martial law and an independent Catalonia are phantoms to be exorcised in the interests of real world governance

24th November 2005
The uncomfy Seat
Despite an excellent new model range, slumping sales and overcapacity make Martorell miserable

18th July 2005
Charm school chantaje
Why the clots, not the crème, are clogging education’s arteries

18th June 2005
Barons of the waveband
To those that have, more will be given

7th June 2005
Gang strife in mountain town
Berga’s Patum festival killing reveals a backwoods lawlessness

24th May 2005
Mascarell the meter maid
Ferran Mascarell is the City Council hit man - a hit with the ladies (handsome devil) and the Mr Fixit called in to rally the public round Ajuntament initiatives



Andrew Minh | Unnatural Habitat  
Andrew Minh is a Californian hiding out in normally just-as-sunny Barcelona. He writes fiction when he's inspired, movie reviews for Catalonia Today when he's feeling critical, and rambles the Ramblas and the centric neighborhoods whenever time permits. After five years in Spain he still hasn't seen a bullfight.

Articles

29th June 2006
Los otros
Origins and meaning of the word guiri

14th March 2006
Guirilandia is a nation
Notes found in a destroyed youth hostel

9th February 2006
Beyond the cold front
Of the guiri intrepidus and the guiri clandestinus

12th January 2006
Strange weather
We're all in this together

15th December 2005
Barataria
A fictional Spanish isle

10th November 2005
Sounds of the city
Barcelona, a melting pot of people, sounds and culture



Paul Clearwater | The Clearwater Report  
Paul Clearwater is a New Zealander who has been living in Barcelona for three years, where he works as a part-time English Teacher, translator and writer. Among other things, he has worked in the publishing industry in Sydney, Australia; written freelance articles for various media outlets; and is in the process of finishing his first novel.

Articles

19 January 2006
The importance of being … a Barça footballer
How we should live the game called life as the footballers do

1 December 2005
Performance politics
Politics: "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." Hamlet quote (Act II, Scene II)

3rd November 2005
Visitors, Karma and a man called Luke
Visitors: you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them

5th September 2005
To pee or not to pee
Barcelona's streets have turned into public toilets

23rd July 2005
It’s raining cats and bulls
The importance of symbolism in Catalunya



John Pawlenko | Backseat Driver  
John Pawlenko manages the Barcelona Reporter website and spends most of his day behind a desk thinking of how best to keep site visitors informed and up-to-date on news concerning Catalonia. He intends that the site will provide aspiring writers, citizen reporters and broadcasters a showcase within which to highlight their work and creativity online, and, additionally, provide contributors - of whatever experience - exposure to their efforts, great and small.

Articles

17th November 2005
FC Barcelona’s Joan Laporta
Let’s be clear on this: I’m in charge

3rd October 2005
Customer is king
Service with a smile - or not, as the case may be

9th September 2005
Anti-social behaviour a weakness in government
Mayor Joan Clos is fighting to retake a city he's lost

5th August 2005
What are you waiting for?
Wouldn’t it feel good to get involved?
Nicholas Fogarty
Last: 01 Dec 06

Nicholas Mead
Last: 6 Nov 06

Alex Chumillas
Last: 30 Oct 06

Marta S. Wendlinger
Last: 11 Jan 07

John Barrass
Last: 25 Oct 06

Andrew Minh
Last: 29 Jun 06

Paul Clearwater
Last: 19 Jan 06

John Pawlenko
Last: 17 Nov 05




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