For years you refuse to sign up for one of those tourist routes through the London of the Rolling Stones or the Beatles. Why march in procession listening to unbearable comments, if you yourself are capable of designing an itinerary to your liking? And you switch to guide mode. One day…
The she-wolf, the crazy one, the betrayed one, the cyclist, the one who doesn’t cry, and especially, the one who bills a lot. All the Shakiras gathered last night in Madrid to inaugurate her first residency with a great technical and lighting deployment to give weight to the event that ends eight years of waiting by the Spanish public. New paths for great concerts and a vindication of Shakira as a great diva of the stages after three decades of resilience.
It is early in the morning. A man, neither tall nor short, approaches along a path. He is distracted by the appearance of a girl who has just crossed to retrieve her dog, which has escaped. It hasn’t been even a minute, but enough for him to notice the tattoo on the young woman’s arm. He observes people, infers their biographies with little data. He calls it “the game of life.” Also, that person, who knows, could be a possible witness to a criminal act. He will have to go back to look for her. He also usually memorizes car license plates. He can’t help it.
It is hard to find someone who has never heard of The Metamorphosis. Although it is not a mandatory reading in Spanish educational centers, it is common for this short novel by Franz Kafka to be taught in classrooms, so the story of its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, the man who wakes up to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, is at least popular. It has been so since it was published in 1915 under the German title Die Verwandlung or, in other words, The Transformation, a more accurate title for this story, translated in Spain ten years later.
The actress Clara Sanchis and the director and playwright María Ruiz could hardly have imagined that ten years after premiering the production A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf, someone would dare to censor the author or the word feminism in an advertisement. But the day has come.
It is curious, because it has not yet been released in Spain – it will be on September 25th -, and therefore, very few viewers have seen it, but almost everyone assumed that it would be La bola negra, by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, the Javis, the film chosen by the Film Academy to represent Spain in the race for the Oscar. And so it has been.
Signing up for a writing course and submitting texts written with artificial intelligence is, to say the least, paradoxical. But it happens. These are rare cases and just one more example of how ChatGpts and similar tools permeate classrooms at all levels: school, university, and also those of future writers. Who will be behind the future best sellers? This question has been asked for at least two years by the faculties of the vast majority of writing schools worldwide.
The Israeli Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, has stated that he will work to revoke the nationality of the directors of the documentary Naza, which received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Festival on Saturday for showing the alleged strategy of Israel to destroy the Gaza Strip.
In Catalonia, some political parties talk about education and others talk about teaching. Whether it is one or the other, the task of the school does not change much. What it does have is a huge responsibility in our society, beyond families and the tribe, that is to say, beyond…
They have been hard to get, but finally the Gallagher brothers have announced a European tour for next year and yes, they will be passing through Barcelona. The Lluís Companys stadium will host Oasis on July 10 and 11 in their only concerts on the Peninsula, confirming the rumors that had been circulating for days. These performances will be part of a tour that will begin in Glasgow on May 21 and conclude in September in Knewborth, a legendary venue for the band, as it was there that they held their most massive concert in 1996 before 250,000 people, marking their peak of popularity.
