Born in Madrid on January 5, 1941, this always “young” minstrel of Spanish electronic music is just eleven days away from reaching the age of 84. He died the day…
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Santi Carrillo, director of ‘Rockdelux’: “Rosalía is a great artist, but also ungrateful” | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomThe director of Rockdelux, emblem of the alternative music press, he associates his first musical memories with Los 40 Principales, the epitome of commerciality. “Well, like every teenager, I started…
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Raphael suffers from brain lymphoma and cancels concerts in America scheduled for 2025 | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomThe singer Raphael, 81, suffers from brain lymphoma, according to the medical report from the 12 de Octubre hospital (Madrid) provided by his representative office, RLM. The statement explains that…
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Could Beethoven be canceled? Norman Lebrecht affirms yes | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomIs Beethoven’s music in danger? It is the fear that Norman Lebrecht (London, 76 years old) expresses in the epilogue of his 2023 book Why Beethoven? A phenomenon in a…
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In 1922 the film premiered at the Berlin Zoo Nosferatu, a symphony of terror by FW Murnau. It was the first film adaptation of Dracula (1897), the novel in which…
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After the fall of Madrid in 1939, Celia Gámez, queen of the revue who swayed to the rhythm of “Come here and I will teach you to dance the cachumbambé,”…
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The challenge of fitting contemporary art where cloistered nuns prayed | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomBehind the double grille of the lower choir, from where the cloistered nuns followed the mass, today a video installation is projected in a subdued environment on three screens of…
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Eduard Sola, the fashionable scriptwriter: “They treat us as crybabies, but if we ask for more spotlights it is because we live in humiliating situations” | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomHe is the man who has written everything in 2024. Eduard Sola (Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana, Barcelona, 35 years old) has become the fashionable scriptwriter in Spanish cinema and television.…
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‘Oh, Canada’: Paul Schrader, Richard Gere and guilty masculinity | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomPaul Schrader (Michigan, 1946) is one of the great portraitists of the recesses of contemporary masculinity. His filmography (from the script of Taxi driver from now on) is linked to…
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‘Parthenope’: The esthete Sorrentino turns to Celeste Dalla Porta | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomI have mixed feelings about this one. Parthenope with a name as exotic as it is difficult to pronounce. And I don’t look away from the screen during all of…