The vaguely freaky New York Press is dropping massage parlours and foreign language specialists and taking a $1M revenue hit. Barcelona’s conservative daily, La Vanguardia, shows no signs of so doing.

Manuel Fraga goes into a bar, walks up to a man eating tripe, punches him in the face, and starts eating the tripe himself.
“What on earth do you think you’re doing?” cries the man. “I paid for that!”
“Fuck off and die,” snarls Fraga, “los callos son míos.”
(The Salvador Dalí version of this has a hyphen [...]

Neither man nor beast, was this what Kafka had in mind? This cartoon by the great James Ensor of the once great resort of Oostende is in the Gent Fine Arts Museum, which I most enjoyed. Dutch art is generally speaking familiar, but cross the border and there’s a whole new collective of ne’er-do-wells requiring [...]