The operational central unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard went this Wednesday early in the morning to the national headquarters of the PSOE, on Ferraz street in Madrid, to request documentation within the framework of the investigation into the so-called Leire case, according to police sources confirmed to La Vanguardia.
Something had to do with Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage, and Lena Headey becoming stars, at least during the time when Game of Thrones was the absolute queen of television. And although for many he is simply a reference as the author of the books on which the series that has generated nearly 4 billion euros for HBO was based, George R.R. Martin is a celebrity in his own right.
Primavera Sound is closer to reaching the glory of streaming its concerts and positioning itself at Coachella’s level in terms of live viewings. For the first time, the three days of performances at the Fòrum –from June 4 to 6– that can be followed worldwide will include all the headliners of this edition, with the exception of My Bloody Valentine who, for reasons that have not been disclosed, have decided not to participate. The broadcast can be followed for the first time on ‘La Vanguardia’s website, as well as Twitch and Amazon Prime.
When on Saturday, around 7:15 p.m., we were preparing the dinner service, we were surprised to see several military vehicles passing through the square. We were aware that there was a fire, we saw the column of smoke, but we did not think it was so serious. A few minutes later, the mayor called me to ask that we not open the bar and to be alert for a possible evacuation.”
The poet Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad in 1940 and was expelled from his country in 1972, after which he settled in the United States. From there he traveled again and again to Venice. He visited it for the first time at the age of 32, and at the time he wrote the wonderful little book Watermark (Siruela/Vienna) he had already stayed in the city 17 times, always in December. For the Nobel, seeing a wave breaking on the shore at midnight was like “seeing time emerging from the water.” Memory, death, love, beauty, dreams are also the materials that, in a subtle and poetic way, the artist Claudia Pagès unfolds in the Cantieri Navali, the usual headquarters of Catalonia at the Venice Art Biennale, where this year she presents Paper tears (Lágrimas de papel), a waltz-paced installation created from 15th-century watermarks found in the Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, the place where she was born.
Few terms are as terrifying in this country as that of the bubble, whether it be the dot-com, the real estate, or now the festival bubble in a time that boasts having a thousand of them spread across the entire geography. The trickle of cancellations in recent months, crowned by the disappearance of the massive Reggaeton Beach Festival, which gathered 600,000 people in 12 cities, has inflated the debate at the same time that solo artist tours are increasing and residencies are arriving, such as those of Shakira or Bad Bunny, both in Madrid.
A Russian drone has struck the locomotive of a Ukrainian train traveling from Kyiv to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, just two kilometers from the border, although no one has been injured, according to the Ukrzaliznitsia railway company reported this Sunday.
The Russian pacifist opposition candidate Borís Nadezhdin, who two years ago unsuccessfully tried to challenge Vladímir Putin in the presidential elections and who has now been barred from any possibility of running in next month’s legislative elections, has left Russia. He announced it this Monday with a video recorded in Paris and published on social media.
“UEFA and its federations will not participate in competitions organized by FIFA. We unanimously and unequivocally reject the plan to transfer the rights of the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.” UEFA and its 55 associations made this strong decision this afternoon in a telematic meeting. A real challenge to try to stop the plans of FIFA president Gianni Infantino to privatize part of FIFA by creating a corporate subsidiary to commercialize its competitions. From the very beginning, UEFA has opposed the plan and describes it as “crossing a red line.”
What seemed like just another eccentric character on social media has ended up alerting the authorities of a country for taking advantage of a legal loophole to become “king.” Jona Lauwiner (31) is a young technician who in 2019 proclaimed himself king of Switzerland and organized a coronation in a church for it. With cape, crown, and all.
