Considered in the past one of the gods of hip hop and music in general, probably no one like Kanye West has done so much to undermine his prestige and personal credit as himself, even accused of apologism for Nazism, a baggage from which he now seems determined to detach with musical atonements like the one performed this Thursday in Madrid.
Everyone thought that this was just another room in an ancient Roman villa built in Fuente Álamo (Puente Genil, Córdoba). Some speculated that the room could even be a mithraeum, a temple dedicated to the Persian-origin god Mithras and built to imitate a cave. But the space was actually the oldest library on the Iberian Peninsula.
They are eight dolia or small containers that the Romans used to store products. They have just appeared on Hostal d’en Sol street, next to the historic headquarters of the Post Office on Via Laietana in Barcelona. The nearest ship is today – thanks to Google Maps – 310 meters away. Two millennia ago, when the Roman city was just founded, the sea must have been closer. Because those dolia are very likely used to store products ready to be shipped to the empire; the Roman one, of course. And because right behind is the wall that the city’s founders built to protect themselves.
La Torre Galatea of the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres became the painter’s last place of residence after the fire in Púbol. Salvador Dalí lived there from 1984 until his death in 1989, and experts on his work say that from his room he watched how the evening light transformed the textures of the stone into a play of shadows on the exterior walls of the museum. On these same walls, photographs and audiovisual fragments of Dalí and his complex universe are projected until August 23, in a play of lights, images, music, and sounds, including the voices of Dalí and a brief fragment of Gala, in the only sound document known to the foundation.
Manolo Solo came from rock, and it showed. Viewers will remember him singing on Late Motiv, by Andreu Buenafuente, the legendary Autosuficiencia, by Parálisis Permanente. It’s just one example, but it gives many clues. It is also known that he was a fan of the Kinks and that, on some occasions, he played I’m not like everybody else, and the anthem of the outsiders suited him perfectly, because, although he had the physique of an ordinary man, he didn’t look like anyone else. Before becoming one of the most beloved and admired actors in our cinema, Manuel Fernández Serrano, as his ID stated, devoted himself, for more than two decades, to the Seville underground scene, especially as the lead singer of Los Relicarios, a band in which Santi Amodeo also played guitar, who would end up directing him in films like Astronautas (2003), ¿Quién mató a Bambi? (2013) and El cielo de los animales (2025), one every ten years.
An ancient civilization of millions of inhabitants flourished in the Amazon for nearly 1,500 years. Aerial laser scans (LiDAR) conducted in the southwest of this South American region have revealed hundreds of ceremonial centers, road networks, and thousands of geoglyphs hidden in the jungle.
Manuel Jesús Fernández Serrano, artistically known as Manolo Solo, passed away this Thursday at the age of 62, according to a statement from the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
The Urban Planning Subcommittee of Barcelona, which includes the Generalitat and the City Council, has definitively approved the urban modification that will allow the rehabilitation, expansion, and conversion of the Palau Marcet —a protected building where the Comèdia cinema was located— into the new Carmen Thyssen Museum.
The event faces its final week with three essential names on the agenda of any music lover. María Becerra, Rubén Blades, and Morrissey headline a luxurious closing that consolidates the festival as one of the great cultural offerings of the summer in Barcelona.
Reading is at its peak. 70% of Spaniards over 14 years old read books. And 66.2% choose them for leisure, according to the latest Reading and Book Buying Habits Barometer in Spain from the Ministry of Culture. An interest that is evident on social media, where content about books has multiplied. The most common format there is now video reviews of new releases, with young adult romance being the most popular genre, with two million mentions on Instagram and TikTok: reviews generated by profiles that do not necessarily belong to literary figures, but to ordinary citizens – generally young women – who share the latest titles that have thrilled them.