Friends

BeMusic trae a Madrid y Barcelona un espectáculo único, Sinatra & Friends. Un concierto homenaje que es más que un tributo a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin y Sammy Davis Jr. El espectáculo que lleva una década triunfando en el Casino de Londres llega ahora al Teatro Rialto de Madrid en una única noche, el lunes 23 de octubre y a la Sala Barts de Barcelona el martes 24 de octubre para inundar la Gran Vía y la Avenida del Paralelo con las melodías legendarias del Rat Pack.

El último libro de Alicia Garcí Serot -una artista multidisciplinar que se adentra en el mundo del cine, la literatura y la traducción- es cuando menos tan singular como original, pues en lo concerniente a la parte formal, participa de rasgos propios del discurso histórico, la biografía, la narración, por supuesto la poesía e incluso un cierto relato existencialista que parece buscar desesperadamente “esa condena para ser libres” que nos señalara Jean-Paul Sartre.

If the King Philip II used the expression “that lady” to name Ana de Mendoza, the Princess of Eboli, in a derogatory and revengeful way, Kate O’Brien gave it a different meaning as the title of her seventh novel, published in 1947.

They were two exceptional women. One was born in Ávila, Spain, in the sixteenth century, and another in Limerick Ireland, at the end of the nineteenth century.

This piebald comparative inquiry is the kernel of two experiences with two wenches. As I was gallivanting across a rut of kennels of a street of New York, I saw a hairlanked black woman, and I wooed her by using my most poetical and knightly resources and polite letters. Amid that hectic cityscape she accepted my words, which at that moment were only an echo of a line of a poem written by Lord Byron: “She walks in beauty, like the night” (1). She smiled, and we are good records of love now. I did the same thing in Mexico with another coloured lass. Decorum does not permit me to describe her barbarian reaction.

The ensuing anthropological depictions of moral corruption, I hope, will be useful for those propagandists who are working on behalf of justice. This brief text is the result of my observations in the spheres of politics and my multifarious readings. Our mind, when we suffer an accident here, a misfortune there, a disgrace today, and the bitter fruits of our improvident facts dropping like a rain of pain upon us, tends to frame a metaphysical scene in which tragedy is the main protagonist. Tragedy is a system too, which sometimes presents a light in order to alleviate the painful life of humanity. This light is called, in accordance with the analyses of Machiavelli, “occasione” (1).

Londres volverá a ser la capital del libro y del fanzine en español entre los próximos días 11 y 19 de octubre con la celebración de la tercera edición del London Spanish Book & Zine Fair 2021 (LSBF).

Distribuida por Warner Bros Pictures España, se estrena el viernes día 4 de diciembre, festividad de San Melecio, la película “El verano que vivimos”, dirigida por Carlos Sedes, una historia de amor basada en hechos reales.

El Real Museo de Pintura y Escultura, que en 1868 pasó a denominarse Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura y posteriormente Museo Nacional del Prado, abrió al público el 19 de noviembre de 1819.

El próximo 21 de marzo saldrá a la venta Brújulas que buscan sonrisas perdidas, la nueva novela de Albert Espinosa, que se publicará simultáneamente en castellano y catalán, en ebook y en audiolibro. El libro se publica dos años después de su gran éxito Si tú me dices ven lo dejo todo... pero dime ven, que se convirtió en un fenómeno literario dentro y fuera de nuestro país.

The woke-brain-washing word "genocide" nowadays is parroted ubiquitously in the media by cartoonish spokespersons, well-waged pundits, pig-faced politicians, new-age-inspired maidservants, Harvard bigots, and the like. But 'tis way problematic, rather a paralogism, "id est", 'tis a concept shorn of clear objects. This fashionable term, to actually mean something of substance, shall entail the concept of "intentionality", which is subjective, useless in the fair wielding of international laws. But intentions cannot be scientifically tested, therefore, we only may figure out the premises behind 'em.

Ireland had for centuries looked to Spain for military and spiritual aid against the common enemy, England, and many poems exist to verify that plea for help. Roisin Dubh (Little Black Rose), a folk poem possible from the 1600s, is one of Ireland’s most famous political songs. It is based on an older love-lyric in which the title referred to the poet’s beloved rather than, as here, being a pseudonym for Ireland: Roisin, have no sorrow for all that has happened to you/the friars are out on the brine, they are travelling the sea,/your pardon from the Pope will come, from Rome in the East,/and we won’t spare the Spanish wine for my Roisin Dubh.

A different flavor of summer holidays is gaining popularity as the choice for an increasing number of animal lovers – and people with a wish to meet different folks and cultures – who want to make great memories, and make a difference: saving hundreds of lives every year, finding the perfect pet for any family anywhere in the world, and offering food, medicine, shelter and love for animals in one of Europe’s most beautiful islands and holiday destinations: the Greek island of Crete.

Regresa la comisaria María Ruiz de la mano de su creadora Berna González Harbour con un nuevo caso en “Las lágrimas de Claire Jones”. En esta nueva novela negra, une la periodista y escritora cántabra dos historias; una actual, sobre el asesinato de una joven cuyo cuerpo ha aparecido en el maletero de un coche y otra, que comienza en el crepúsculo de nuestra Guerra Civil, sobre una organización cuáquera que ayudó a los refugiados republicanos españoles después de nuestro conflicto fratricida.

We have all heard on occasion that the American company Coca-Cola once produced a completely colorless version. The strategy was a total fiasco, because consumers around the world were used to the dark caramel color of this most typical American soft drink.

I pretend to teach how I perused public opinion and caused social conflicts when I was a political propagandist. I will not do this anymore. I am repented. Our mind displays three fundamental operations, which could be called, for the sake of simplicity, “unions”, “separations” and “comparisons”. These mental movements carry two paradigms, namely: monism and atomism.

The “logical thinker”, as Borges affirms (1), can find “patterns” in poetic metaphors. I will try to indicate some logical patterns in eight books.

Rosa Montolío nos habla en esta entrevista de su último poemario, "Las pieles y su instinto" (Lastura, 2018), candidato a los Premios de la Crítica Valenciana en estos momentos y también de su pasión por la escritura y por el resto de las artes y su compromiso social con ella misma y con la sociedad en la que vive.

"Las chicas malas besan mejor" de Elie Grimes es una comedia romántica y divertida con un toque muy cinematográfico, perfecta para fans de Friends o Sexo en Nueva York.