Barcelona city guideBarcelona holidays10 of the best films set in BarcelonaBarcelona Review editor Jill Adams selects her favourite films showcasing the vibrantly colourful, and gritty, Catalan capitalAs featured in our Barcelona city guide Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother), Pedro Almodóvar, 1999What is arguably Almodóvar's greatest work begins with tragedy in Madrid, but soon moves to Barcelona, beginning with a breathtaking night-time glimpse of the Sagrada Familia, where the sheer buoyancy of the city steers the film in a powerful and dazzling new direction.

Health & wellbeingInterviewKim Noble: The woman with 100 personalitiesAmanda MitchisonThere's Judy the teenage bulimic, devout Catholic Salamoe, gay Ken and over 100 more. Artist Kim Noble talks about living with multiple personality disorderThe painter Kim Noble is a niblet-sized woman with long, auburn hair and startlingly blue eyes. She lives in a small terrace house in south London with her 14-year-old daughter Aimee, two dogs and more than 100 separate personalities.

Gardening blogWildlifeLet dandelions grow. Bees, beetles and birds need themDandelions are demonised as one of the most pernicious weeds, but hold back on the mowing and you’ll find a whole range of garden wildlife depends on them for food, writes Kate Bradbury A few weeks ago I walked past a lawn which hadn’t yet had its first spring cut. It was awash with bright yellow dandelions, and each one was peppered with several pollen beetles, perhaps enjoying their first meal of the year.

The ObserverDogsBringing rescue dogs and prisoners together in a remarkable rehabilitation programme in California is helping inmates learn valuable lessons On an idyllic sun-drenched day in California, I find myself in jail. But unlike the 5,000 or so inmates of North Kern State Prison, located 150 miles north of Los Angeles, I’m here voluntarily, accompanied by Zach Skow, a man on a mission to bring dogs into every US prison.

NazismThe grim drawings by Wilhelm Werner are finally getting recognition as important artworks Forty-four pencil drawings on the backsides of a shop order book are all that remain of the life of Wilhelm Werner. But his artistic response to the forced sterilisation programme he underwent in Nazi Germany, a bundle of leaves flimsily held together in a worn leather cover, is receiving growing recognition in the art world almost eight decades after his death.