There are very few jazz musicians left who deserve to be considered giants. After the death, early this morning, of saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the representation of the golden era of the genre is limited to figures such as pianist Herbie Hancock (Chicago, 1940) or the…
That one of the most anticipated literary debuts of the year features a tradwife as the protagonist is not something that should be surprising. For those unfamiliar with the term, this anglicism is an abbreviation of traditional wife, or in other words, traditional housewife, and this is how Natalie Heller Mills, a character in the novel Yesteryear (AdN) by Caro Claire Burke, who has just arrived in bookstores stirring much excitement among readers, refers to herself. It is no wonder, as actress Anne Hathaway, who these days can be seen on the big screen starring in The Devil Wears Prada 2, has purchased the film rights to turn the novel into a movie, playing the role of Natalie herself. She will thus go from being a promising girlboss ready to succeed at Runway magazine, directed by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), to quite the opposite.
The Catalan viol player Jordi Savall received last night in Munich the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2026, one of the most prestigious awards in the world of classical music. The ceremony took place at the Prinzregententheater, with a concert by Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya under his direction.
“Welcome to Cannes!” said the head of the prestigious French festival, Thierry Frémaux, yesterday to Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo as they climbed the steps of the Palais. Shortly after, Los Javis excitedly took the stage to receive the award for best direction for La bola negra, a distinction they shared with the Polish Pawel Pawlikowski, author of Fatherland, a beautiful and harsh black-and-white portrait of Germany after World War II through the figure of the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika.
Few things are more Barcelonan than kicking off the most gluttonous intellectual-social week of, perhaps, all time with an explosion of Central European gravity and full-blown melancholy. How about a Mahler? A First Symphony for the penultimate Monday of May while the city…
Tourists and foreign residents (the famous expats, expatriates) are in the spotlight of many people in a Barcelona that, like other cities, lives with regret its dizzying loss of identity. A linguistic acrobatic has turned the initial use of…
The Romanian director Cristian Mungiu has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival with Fjord, a film as uncomfortable as it is necessary, which was among the favorites in a rather uncertain 79th edition. With the audience giving a standing ovation, Mungiu went up to the stage of the grand Lumière theater to receive from Tilda Swinton an award he had already won in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. “It is necessary to talk about relevant things in a society that has become radicalized, and this film is a message of tolerance,” he said in reference to the plot of the film starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, which narrates how the traditional and religious values of an ultra-conservative Romanian family clash with the supposed progressive values of Norwegian society. Fjord had also been awarded shortly before with the prize from the international critics (Fipresci), the Ecumenical, and the Citizenship awards.
Bad Bunny has managed to elevate the genre of urban music, the one that mixes hip-hop, reggaeton, Latin rhythms, and autotune, into a mass spectacle that no one wants to miss. Ten years ago, no one gave a dime for this music, relegated to the margins of society and nights of excess, but last night it brought together in the stands a cast of politicians led by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, along with Mayor Jaume Collboni and no less than four consellers of the Generalitat. A tribute to popular music like Pujol strolling through the April Fair or Tierno Galván shouting “those who aren’t high, get high.”
Rosalía received this Thursday in London the Ivor Novello Award for International Composer of the Year, one of the most prestigious in the industry, which places her at the very top of the musical pantheon, on the same level as Paul McCartney, Elton John, or Adele.