Culture

“Perfect” bodies, plots focused on sports and sexual relations with hardly any references to job insecurity, housing or mental health; LGTBIQ+ and racialized characters still pigeonholed in stereotypical narratives. This…

“It is a crime to cut it.” Exactly one month after turning 85, Riccardo Muti interrupted the Granada Festival concert on the night of June 28 to defend the ballet…

There are books whose content exceeds what is stated in their title. The expanded reissue of Equilibrist. Cecilia’s life (Efe Eme) updates what was suggested in its first appearance, through…

In June 1926 Agatha Christie published The murder of Roger Ackroyd and something changed forever in the history of literature. It was his sixth novel, the third in the Hercule…

1984. Madonna is 25 years old and has just released her second album, Like a Virgin. He offers an interview to the MTV network. Continue reading

The co-production between Singapore, Spain and Italy The violinist, by Raúl García (Madrid, 68 years old) and the Singaporean Ervin Han, has won this Saturday the Cristal, the main prize…

“The only way out for Sijena is the virtual world.” Professor Manuel Castiñeiras (Autonomous University of Barcelona) expresses a widespread opinion in the academic world: “When a work of art…

It is impossible to catalog Pepe Viyuela. There are those who consider him as part of the family since his days as a comedian in the competition One, two, three…

Arirang is Korea’s best-known folk song, inscribed by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage, and survives today in more than sixty regional variants and thousands of documented versions. It was a…

Early one morning in the spring of 1977 I received a call with a very mysterious tone, although I immediately recognized that the voice was that of Pedro Caba, who…