August started in July in Torrevieja. Let me explain: the first Low Festival held in the tourist city in the south of Alicante, “stolen” from Benidorm this year, opens the festive-musical program of the city for the month of August, but it was inaugurated yesterday, July 31, Friday.
The PSPV-PSOE has demanded that the Consell exercise the right of first refusal and withdrawal on the homes of Les Naus de Alicante so that they become part of the public housing stock again and thus prevent them from ending up in the hands of vulture funds or speculative operations.
The General Structural Plan that the Alicante City Council is working on continues to reveal the future of the city, the portrait it wants to resemble in ten or twenty years, adapted to the foreseeable demographic changes and the projects that are already underway.
A person is in serious condition at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona after falling from a boat on the coast this Saturday afternoon and being rescued by the Mossos d’Esquadra along with their companion.
The team of surveyors from Sostremetries, who have been reviewing the altitudes of the peaks of the Pyrenees for years, has certified a new three-thousander in Catalunya, the South Needle of Malavesina, at 3,012.9 meters altitude and a prominence of eleven relative to the last saddle, in the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, according to measurements taken on July 5. In this way, Catalunya goes from twelve to thirteen summits exceeding this elevation: Pica d’Estats, Verdaguer, Punta de Gabarró, Sotllo, N. subpeak of Sotllo, Rodó de Canalbona, Comaloforno, Besiberri Sur, Besiberri Norte, Punta Alta de Comalesbienes, Tuc de Mulleres, North Needle of Malavesina, and now the South Needle. In the entire Pyrenees range, the number will increase from 216, of which 125 are main and 91 secondary, to 217.
“Habitar la belleza” is the proposal that in a turbulent and contradictory world the artistic director of Torroella, Montse Faura, makes to us for this edition of the Festival. Nothing less… And she opens the doors to it with a central program of 15 important concerts, some due to the quality of the work of our performers, like this inaugural Beethoven by the OBC and Josep Colom that we have just enjoyed. In it, the musicality and expressive strength of the Catalan pianist was well understood by the OBC and its conductor, the young Belarusian Vitali Alekseenok, current principal of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, who looks very promising in terms of understanding the language and clear gesturality.
Each passing day, medicine is closer to winning the battle against cancer. Oncology care has undergone an extraordinary transformation over the last decade. Advances in prevention, early diagnosis, genetics, precision medicine, immunotherapy, radiotherapy, and targeted therapies now allow for more effective, more personalized treatments with a lower impact on patients’ quality of life.
The most forgotten war in the world fits into an alleyway of a historic souk in Dubai. Far from the vertical ostentation of skyscrapers in other neighborhoods of the Emirati city, the passages covered with wooden pergolas of the Deira Gold Souk, in northern Dubai, house another type of more discreet display: more than 300 shops buying and selling jewelry and gold. The Dubai souk is a bustling hive of luxury and vibrant peace.
Donald Trump had promised it without too many detours. “We are going to end all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs throughout the federal Government,” declared the President of the United States. Since returning to the White House, his Administration has applied this offensive to education, public contracting, artificial intelligence, and numerous federal agencies. Now he wants to incorporate it permanently into the system that funds much of American science.
And finally the night arrived. After the controversy over reposting a publication that offended Argentinians in the midst of World Cup fever, after the apologies that felt insufficient (“My bad,” she posted), Rosalía performed before the Buenos Aires audience at the Movistar Arena. And if there were ticket returns, it was not noticeable. The stadium looked full.