What is the Four method to avoid "mental blackouts"?
Have you left home and have forgotten to take the keys? Do you need to call a family member and you don't know where...
What is a "red flag" and why you should pay attention to them when...
Red flag, what is that? In recent times it is common to come across this expression on social networks. It is a common term...
The wine of the week: Sumarroca Letà rgia 2012
Bodegues Sumarroca has just released Letà rgia Gran Reserva Brut Nature 2012, a DO Cava with a decade of bottle aging that they define as...
Barcelona bookstores where to read, eat and drink
Devouring the pages of a book and a succulent sobrasada sandwich at the same time is by no means incompatible. Or that is how...
I think, then I write
You already know what I do here: write about eating. Let me today, because it is today, start at the beginning.Writing is a way...
At what age should children read (and when do we need to worry)?
Mothers and fathers live with some anguish the advances in maturation and learning of the creatures. "He is six years old and still doesn't...
Edward Hopper couldn't paint this party
Whoever arrived early yesterday at La Vanguardia's Sant Jordi party will more than likely find Juana Dolores starring in a scene worthy of an...
Do politicians on the left or on the right read more?
There are left-wing politicians and right-wing politicians. Writers who were progressives in their day and now not so much. And then there are the...
Sant Jordi's dragon promises a record day
A great dragon with a mouth full of roses, with Pedro Almodóvar and the poet and actress Juana Dolores in front, last night presided...
Elèctrica Dharma celebrates 50 years with an emotional concert on Sant Jordi
The shouts of “Força Dharma†rang out last night at the Palau Sant Jordi to receive once again the veteran Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, the...
MartÃnez de Pisón: "Wow, we are the Almodóvar girls"
Pedro Almodóvar's thing was going to be arriving and kissing the saint. The rest of the authors summoned for the photo of the Sant...
4 books on psychology to celebrate World Book Day
How to understand our own thinking and that of others? Psychology is the queen of the social sciences, a discipline that has been given...
Your dog may have high cholesterol and so you should avoid it
High cholesterol is a condition that worries many people. But what you may not know is that your dog can also suffer from it....
10 signs that your children are afraid of you instead of respecting you
Being parents implies acting as a reference role in the lives of children. You have to raise them, educate them and instill in them...
Susana Uribarri reveals what Ana Obregón's day-to-day life with Ana Sandra is like: "Seeing...
Ana Obregón is no longer alone in Miami. Her great friend Susana Uribarri has been by her side for a few days to accompany...
Uribou, the charm of an ephemeral menu
Uribou (Regà s, 35) is a refuge in an alleyway in Sant Gervasi, which is another step towards the Japanese concept of omakase, based on...
"Is falling in love with an artificial intelligence bad?": 'Skip' Rizzo, psychologist and researcher
A week ago, the US Centers for Disease Control published a new report on suicides in the country that showed a new increase in...
Contemporary photography, protagonist in the new programming of the Center del Carme
The questioning of the traditional rules of photographic exhibition, which blows up concepts such as uniqueness, order or narrative, according to the heterodox and...
Nuccio Ordine: "We must ask questions of the classics"
The Italian teacher Nuccio Ordine (Diamante, 1958) was born in a small Calabrian town without a bookstore and learned to read thanks to television,...
Agatha Christie offends us and other stories of wicked rewrites
A placid Sunday afternoon and a new television version of Ten little blacks by Agatha Christie. Sorry, from Y there were none left, which...
The book women of Appalachia
They went from being feared to eagerly awaited. From considering them crazy to saviors. Risking their lives with each ride, women and children from...
Wim Wenders, the photographer who knows how to listen to the places that speak
A painter before being a filmmaker, Wim Wenders still has a third profession that he prioritizes over all others: that of traveler. And without...
Sant Jordi of "diez dÃas", pending from Meteocat
The Meteocat page is probably one of the most visited websites this week in Catalonia. Booksellers, authors and readers are more attentive than ever...
Win Wenders: "The truth is already an endangered species"
He wanted to be an architect, musician, painter, doctor, philosopher, photographer, writer and priest. And in the end he became a film director because...
The concealer that drank all the vodka in the USSR
Santi Vila says that Mà rius Carol is a “joyâ€. He is also a man from Barcelona and a man from La Vanguardia. That is...
Cursed numbers: from Aless Lequio to Beethoven or Jim Morrison
There are numbers that seem cursed. By recurring. Numbers that passed by at the worst time. One of them is 23. And not February...
“I am the author, how many books have I sold?â€
Knowing how many books an author has sold is essential to know how a book is doing, of course, but sometimes the access of...
Itziar Yagüe: “The blues elevates the human being above daily misery and misfortuneâ€
This is not a story of perseverance, although it could be, that of a woman who decided to dedicate herself to music after 30...
Emmanuel Carrère: "Evil has fictional prestige, but it is usually poor, monotonous"
Friday, November 13, 2015. Jihadism shocks Europe with a triple attack in Paris, with its epicenter in the Bataclan theater. There will be 130...
How Expressing Grief Over the Death of a Pet Helps You Get Over It
Our pets are fully integrated into the family. We love them infinitely and their love becomes essential on a day-to-day basis. For this reason,...
Pigeons, potatoes and triangles, the new heroes of the stories
For a few months now we have been observing how little by little a new profile of storytelling heroes that has hardly been seen...
The photographer rocker and other celebrities
The musical bibliography is often nourished by biography, but it is clear that not all of them have the same interest. The best, without...
An invitation to observe and analyze
One fine day, a writer, let's say Valentà Puig, sits down to write about his environment, his life, about what he observes. The result...
The reading vices are for today, and today, and today
Empires, reindeer, “wizardsâ€, gunslingers, tycoons, menacing stars, 14th century India, 16th century Florence, the Indochina and Ukrainian wars, and much more. In the wide...
The paths of freedom in current literature
The Spanish narrative has definitively stopped seeing reality in only one direction, to discover different paths that lead us to it, in an example...
Figures that marked our societies
Robert Oppenheimer is one of the characters who changed the course of history in the 20th century. He was in charge of the Manhattan...
Rise and fall to learn from the past
If we begin the review of the history books published in recent months that can become a good gift for Sant Jordi in chronological...
Ladies and gentlemen of crime of different breeds
A phrase that now sounds from another era: "Ladies first." Although not one of these authors and protagonists need such gallantry. Nor the gentlemen...
The creation that makes us human
In the beginning there is always Ernst Gombrich: The history of art is now seventy years old with more than eight million copies sold...
The art of telling life through cartoons
We can call it a comic, cartoon, comic, manga or graphic novel. The art of cartoons is experiencing a moment of editorial expansion, more...