Republicans—they’re not just embarrassing at home. A story in Expatica, a publication for expats living in Spain, reports that while members of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) were in St. Paul this week to show their support for...

Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves devotes this week’s cover to The Princess of Asturias, Doña Letizia’s recent nose job officially performed to fix a “deviated septum.” The cover announces that her husband, Prince Felipe, was spotted with a mystery...

Every year, the Spanish town of Castrillo de Murcia hosts a “baby-jumping” event as part of their “El Colacho” festival. The leaps are meant to exorcise demons out of the town’s small, disgusting, crying Hell-babies. Babies are arranged on...

Yup, it’s about that time again. Time to splatter friends and strangers alike with buckets of thick, rich, sticky streams of tomato juice. Haha, fun! “Tomatina” is an annual food fight held on the last Wednesday of August in...

You know how to be the #1 paper in Spain? Hold a beauty contest amongst your readers. That’s what Spanish publication 20 Minutos is doing. And we have to say they’ve scored a point or two after their whole,...

A Canary Island-bound plane taking off in Madrid broke apart today as it attempted to lift off the runway: The Spanair plane crashed and broke apart after failing to lift off from runway No 6 at the Barajas airport...

Proving Spain’s Olympic basketball team isn’t the only Spanish team to have a sense of humor akin to a four-year-old or your racist uncle who still refers to people as “colored,” the country’s Olympic tennis team posed for their...

Ah, Spain. The fatherland. Home of nurses who must wear mini-skirts and kings who tell you to shut the fuck up. (We like that last one, actually. But the rest of this shit must go.) They’ve gone and created...

Security at Barcelona airport El Prat discovered 1,370 grams of heroin in the form of 100 pellets stuffed inside seven cow horns in a traveler’s suitcase last week. Great balls of heroin, that’s a lot of drugs. The above...

A story in Spains’ 20 Minutos about Ecuadorian and Colombian immigrants in Madrid getting nose jobs with the goal of obtaining a more European look caught our attention today because, well, it’s sad. But also because midway through the...

Venezuelan President and tiny, little roller Hugo Chavez is flying to Spain next week as part of a European tour to meet up with Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and (heh-heh) King Juan Carlos. You might recall the...

A Spanish crowd planned a kiss-a-thon of sorts to protest the expulsion of a lesbian couple from a Spanish bar called “Casa Parrondo.” The women were kicked out after giving one another a peck on the lips. The owner,...

Pope Benedict XVI paid a visit to Australia, much to the chagrin of one baby koala. [El Periodico] Watch this run-down of some of the best vocal performances by actors in movies. And then resume singing in front of...

Paco Bello is a Catholic priest who wants to spread the message that Jesus had to put up with a lot of controversy and prejudice during his short visit to Earth - kind of like a certain group of...

Because nothing says “asset to the community” quite like an ass cheek peeking out of a pair of hotpants, a group of Spanish prostitutes with fabulous eyebrows put together a fashion show — outside a Church, naturally — to...

Our super fave, gay, Latino blog Blabbeando points us to a new gay ice cream that was launched today in Spain. Why is it gay, you ask? Well it’s rainbow colored, of course. Promoting unity and tolerance for all...

Kids today! We seem to be saying that a lot lately, but it’s true. A 16 year-old British girl recently put an invitation on Facebook and Bebo (a European social networking site that’s much bigger than MySpace) inviting folks...

When we first saw this video of Rodolfo Chikilicuatre performing the song, “Balia el Chiki-chiki,” which won the right to represent Spain at the Eurovision 2008 songwriting competition, we were content to believe that Europeans are just a strange...

Woody Allen and the cast of his latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, were on hand to not discuss anything interesting about their movie in Cannes: Allen brushed aside a question about whether it was true that Spanish directors were...

Galeria Clave, in Cordoba, Spain, has a fascinating/disturbing art inaugural exhibit featuring amazing artists such as Jorge Villalba, pervy Gerard Mas, Rafael Muyor, and our very favorite Samuel Salcedo, who apparently gets his aesthetic on by creating realistic figurative...

Just like all our trips abroad, Scarlett Johansson (Christina) and Rebecca Hall (Not Christina) spend their trip to Barcelona deeply immersing themselves in Spanish culture Javier Bardem and/or Penelope Cruz. In fact, “people having sex” seems to be the...

Inspired by a recent conversation with a friend, we bring you this fresa flashback from the 80’s. It’s been far too long since we’ve had one of those around here and this one features Spanish super group Hombres G,...

A group of mothers in Madrid decided to put together a titillating calendar in an effort to drum up funds for their children’s school, much to the delight of absolutely no one: One of the photos shows the mothers...

Just when we thought we could not love this man anymore, newly re-elected Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appoints Carmen Chacón, 37, (pictured) as defense minister of Spain. But the real news is that she’s 7 months...

You thought the pressure in this country to get your kid into the right school is fierce. In Spain where good schools are even more scarce, (is that possible?), kids from single-parent households are given special preference. So parents...

A Spanish clinic in Cádiz attempted to cut their female nursing staff’s 30 euro productivity bonus when nurses came to work wearing jogging pants, like their male co-workers, instead of miniskirts. Nurses complained that the skirts made them feel...

Spanish wine maker Ribera del Duero have created a new wine called to “honor” the gay community called “Mundo Gay”. According to its creators, Mundo Gay aims to live up to its name through showing a ‘special charisma, unique...

A Spanish bull breeder is planning to clone his prize stud in the hopes of repeating his success, rather than simply buying a new replacement. Wonder if the same can be done with boyfriends: Victoriano del Rio wants to...

Guanabee editor Cindy Casares grew up across the border from Mexico where rich Mexicans came over to shop, vacation and even avail themselves of the private schooling. These people were not so affectionately termed, “fresas.” Recently she learned that...

Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodriguez is the latest recipient of Spain’s Alfaguara Award for literature for his novel Chiquita: The award, which includes a prize of $175,000, is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. A total...

Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to receive an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem, who won for his role in No Country For Old Men, took the opportunity to, once again, remind everyone how awful his...

Know what we think of when we think of the Holocaust? Chorus girls! All dressed in prison uniforms with their heads shaved and big gold stars sewn on their chests. The kind of stars that light up Broadway. Or...

Antonio Banderas and his lovely wife Melanie are caught in the middle of an illegal building clampdown by the Spanish government in Malaga. The British Telegraph reports today that their 5 million pound (that’s like 7.5 million dollars to...

Spaniard Tomas Delgado is suing the family of seventeen-year-old Enaitz Iriondo, a cyclist he was involved in a fatal accident with, for damages to his Audi A8: Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused 14,000 Euros (£10,384) of...

Gueth what, you guyth! After years and years of awkward humming, the Spanish anthem finally has lyrics. And, in typical Spanish fashion, they’ve been met with complaints, hatred and ire: For decades Spain’s athletes have stood awkwardly on awards...

Abortion clinics in Spain have gone on a week-long strike in an attempt to pressure the Spanish government into changing its abortion laws: Most abortions in Spain are carried out under a law requiring a doctor’s diagnosis that the...

They’re called Los Reyes Magos and they are hella pist at Santa Clos. Something about him stealing their thunder. Personally, we’d say none of these chumps measures up to the Caganer....

The Spanish are always ready to let you know what a failure you are as a rotten apple fallen too far from the mother tree, have sex with farm animals (If you happen to be our cousins in Galicia,...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Indian rights activist Rigoberta Menchu spoke out against a Guatemalan high court decision not to arrest or extradite former military officers accused of committing acts of genocide, torture and terrorism during Guatemala’s civil war....

A Spanish man who assaulted a young Ecuadorian girl on a Barcelona subway train remains free until his trial. Apparently, punching her, grabbing her breasts and kicking her in the face while shouting things like “immigrant bitch” and “slut”...

The Catalan Spaniards, you know the ones who say they’re not really Spanish and speak that crazy language, have a little game they like to play with their nativity scenes around Christmas time. It seems in Spain, their nativity...

A chamber brimming with museum-quality artifacts was discovered in Santiago de Compostela. Among the pieces were several items that had gone missing from an exhibition on the 4,000-year-old Moche Lords of Sipan tombs in Peru: Police, tipped off by...

Does the people’s hatred for Hugo Chavez know no bounds? Do Latinos love telling each other to shut up more than life itself? Is royal worshipping at an all-time high? Does everyone just need to get a hobby? Yes...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is demanding King Juan Carlos I of Spain apologize for telling him to shut up. He also hinted that he wasn’t above hitting Spain where it hurts, by reducing the Spanish siesta from twenty-five to...

Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontdevila, two Spanish cartoonists for the satirical magazine El Jueves, have been fined 3,000 euros each for offending the Spanish royal family with one of their cartoons. The comic in question, which ran on the...

The governing party of Spain says the King was right to tell Huey Chavez to shut up. Can we get some validation? We’ve been telling him for months. [NY Post] Someone funded a study to find out White people...

The Cuban leader released a column in official newspapers this weekend declaring that former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar tried convincing the U.S. to bomb the hell out of Serbian TV & radio stations during the war in...

Esquire, the sophisticated glossy men’s magazine that chases topics from how to drink your martini to which BMW is the best to get a bj in, is bringing its pompousness to the Spanish speaking masses. The magazine just hit...

• Tomatina, the annual Spanish tomato warfest, paints the town of Buñol red. Despite hormones a-flarin', drunken American backpackers fail to score. [USA Today] • The MySpace page for the film adaptation of "Love In the Time Of Cholera" belongs to a 27 year-old woman in the U.S. Could be one of García Márquez's putas tristes. [Popwatch]

• In honor of the news that tortillas now outsell bagels in America, here’s a video from 2006 of University of Arizona grads throwing tortillas during their ceremony. [Wisconson state Journal] • They’re making a comedy film based on...