American Writer/Actor Living in Barcelona
Recommended by Time Out Barcelona This isn’t flamenco. This isn’t flamenco fusion. It’s flamenguiri. The American comedian/cabaret artist Rachel Arieff has fallen down the flamenco rabbit-hole. After a year of obsessively listening to and learning the basics of this unique and captivating music, she began to compose her own flamenco songs… without really having any idea of what the hell she was doing. Since then she’s
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Time Out Rachel Arieff (PDF) Rachel Arieff, North American comedian, swapped success in the clubs of New York for that of the Raval. Always underground-style. She discovered her freaky side this way: at 14, as a member of the gymnastics team, she had to wear a leotard. She preferred, however, to wear men’s underwear that she’d tie-dyed herself. Everyone laughed at her. “From that moment on,
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Han sido 10 meses de aventuras, sorpresas, y, sobre todo, cariño. Me encanta ese bar desastroso, que sigue luchando para existir contra un sistema que es cada vez más opresivo en su trato de locales pequeños de ocio no-corporativo de Barcelona. Mi historia personal con Bar 23 Robadors es larga. Empezó en 2004, cuando apenas llevaba tres meses en este país. No
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Rachel is interviewed on Cadena Ser for Crisol Tuà’s program, “Què feu que no dormiu“. Rachel talks about her latest “extreme cabaret” project, “Muérete conmigo” (“Die With Me”); su her work in the new movie directed by Nacho Vigalondo, “Open Windows” (starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey), and the state of culture in Barcelona. In the middle of the interview, Vigalondo makes a surprise visit!
Read moreI’m walking home after the bars have closed on Saturday night. A little drunk, a little melancholy. That’s how I roll lately. All of Barcelona is a little drunk and a little melancholy these days. The crisis. The streets of the Raval neighborhood, always full of party-goers a few years ago, are empty except for the Pakistani illegal beer vendors
Read moreHappy Holidays, everybody. I like Christmas and all that, but this year, I’m finding it depressing. Who’s with me? If you are, I hope today’s blog picks you up. And if it doesn’t… well, then you’re really fucked up and should get yourself to a shrink ASAP. I can only do so much, ya know. So here’s the story: I
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