Throw in some good wine, walks along the pier, sultry
Spanish street names and delicious tacos, and I hope to transport readers to a summer of romance — where they can relax under the shade of their own backyard tree, eat pistachios in the heat and get wonderfully lost in a book...
Not exact matches
With
streets named Cordova, Sevilla, and Castillo and buildings topped by red tile roofs, the city's
Spanish heritage is unmistakable.
That, and the
name reminded me of a hot
Spanish girl
named Joaquina from Barcelona roaming the cobble - stoned
streets, drunk, and loving life.
Inputs are rather slow, but the voice recognition system works pretty well, and had no problem with many of the
Spanish -
named streets that are common in California.
No overall plan, no sidewalks, just driveways going off in crazy lines that lead to other driveways, where signs point to other dead - end
streets named in
Spanish or English with no particular theme - La Oreja Place sticking out of Rodeo Queen Drive leading to Tecolote Avenue, which if it were a sentence would read «the Ear on the Rodeo Queen of the Owl.»
The selection of sculptures chosen for the project represent a diverse list of
names in terms of techniques, styles and artists» backgrounds: from an oversized «liquid» bronze tower by the Englishman Tony Cragg, which took four month of negotiations with the adjacent building to install, to Manolo Valdez's stately
Spanish queen gazing at the sleek new Northwestern Mutual building across the
street (one of the project's sponsors), to a bronze horse cast from twigs found in Montana woods by Deborah Butterfield.
These include the SoHo outpost of 57th
Street's Pace Gallery, which opened last week with an exhibition of sculpture by Julian Schnabel; the new 13,000 - square - foot gallery of Tony Shafrazi, a longtime SoHo dealer, which opened on Wednesday night with an exhibition of work by big -
name American artists, most of them associated with the 1960's, and the Manhattan foothold of the Fernando Alcolea gallery, whose main address is in Barcelona, Spain, and whose second exhibition here introduces the work of a young
Spanish sculptor known simply as Gabriel.
Major
streets bear the
names of Civil War generals, with cross
streets named after
Spanish - American War admirals.