José Saramago begins his great novel, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis with the phrase “Here the sea ends and the land begins.” There are few places – except for the Cais do Sodré in Lisbon that he evoked – that can be so well described with these few words as Algeciras.
More than sixty years after the excavations in the so-called Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii, the city devastated by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, the profession of one of the victims has been identified: he was probably a doctor who died while trying to escape carrying some of the tools of his trade.
The Eurovision Festival, a great musical and television show celebrating its 70th anniversary amid a crisis due to the absence of five countries in protest of Israel’s participation, holds the final this Saturday at 9 p.m., which RTVE will not broadcast in line with its decision not to participate. The first festival without Spain in decades takes place in Vienna, the host city, with the normality that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) strives to maintain.
On June 30th, El Molino will close its doors to the public again. Barcelona Events Musicals (BEM), the company that now manages it, has reached an agreement with the City Council to terminate the concession, which was granted in 2024 and had a duration of four years. The stated reason is the imminent execution of works aimed at improving the soundproofing of the building, in response to neighborhood complaints recorded in recent months. It seems that the limitation of hours has been an obstacle to making the venue profitable, since many music shows rely on the balance between ticket sales and consumptions. Once the necessary adjustments are made, the City Council assures that it wants to continue El Molino as a reference cultural facility in the city.
In the second season of the series Bronca, Josh (Oscar Isaac) is the manager of a country club going through a midlife crisis. Things are not going well with his wife, played by Carey Mulligan, and his almost only consolation is the moments of self-pleasure he gets with his laptop, always connected to Onlyfans.
Florentino Pérez’s sexist words towards two female journalists
If you don’t give your opinion about any of the things happening around you, you are nobody. Especially if your opinion is negative. Just ask Amaia Montero, former singer of La Oreja de Van Gogh, who has started her concert tour again. Social media has been filled with…
Enigma solved. Angelo Savorelli betrayed the insurrectional plans of Francesc Macià in November 1926 at the French Sûreté Générale. It was the Italian informant who thwarted the attempt by the Estat Català army to invade Catalonia to free it from the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and proclaim the Catalan republic. Until now, only suspects had been proposed, without reaching any conclusion. Macià died without knowing it.
The different factions in the battle for the succession to Keir Starmer’s throne have adopted a one-month truce, awaiting whether the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, defeats or not Farage’s far-right in the contest for the vacant Makerfield seat in the House of Commons. That small town of one hundred thousand inhabitants is going to decide the fate of the entire United Kingdom.
Emmanuel Macron emerged in 2017 as a political anomaly in France. And he is on track to end up the same way. The French president managed to be elected by making his way against all odds between the two major political forces at the time: the Socialist Party (PS), whose government he had been part of as Minister of Economy under the presidency of François Hollande, and The Republicans (LR), the latest brand of the Gaullist movement, whose last two presidents had been Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was a radical shift in axis.