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...Eliza Clark and Carmen Maria Machado are enthusiastic players of role-playing games, RPGs — ones in which you inhabit a fictional character and go on an adventure....
...Additional reporting by Carmen Muela in Madrid...
...The prime minister decided to split Calviño’s role in a mini-cabinet reshuffle, handing her other duties as the most senior of Spain’s deputy prime ministers to finance minister María Jesús Montero....
...Her opera project, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, was given its premiere in Munich in 2020 and has been travelling round Europe since then, but English National Opera is bringing it to London at exactly the right...
...In one sign of that momentum, Mark Warner, the Democratic chair of the intelligence committee, and his Republican vice-chair Marco Rubio threw their support behind the measure, saying they “look forward...
...From CDMX to Playa del Carmen via Puebla and Acapulco, they’ve been ahead of the curve....
...Market-friendly former politician María Corina Machado won the primary poll with about 93 per cent of the vote....
...March 6 to 10; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Teatro RealBizet’s masterpiece comes to one of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses for one night only....
...April 25 to October 20; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Royal Opera House In a new production, Aigul Akmetshina and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya share the role of Carmen in director...
...There’s no economy there,” Rubio said....
...Back in the 1930s the legendary Carmen Amaya was wearing the tight-fitting traje de corto of the bailaor....
...The panel seems to have read every available English translation, and listening to this layered, nuanced discussion of how different authors from Seamus Heaney to Maria Dahvana Headley have interpreted the...
...And of course there is the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella – they still wrap every single bar of soap by hand. lorettacaponi.com, smnovella.com An unforgettable place I have travelled...
...Nearby is the Real Fábrica de Tabacos, famed for a certain Carmen and her way with rolling cigars....
...One of his most significant acts was to recruit José María Luna, former director of the Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo, to act as a culture czar....
...Carmen, not her real name, lives with her 15-year-old daughter in a dark, tumbledown house in Guanabacoa, half an hour from Havana....
...Last year, Achim Steiner, head of the UN Development Programme, and Maria Ramos, former chief executive of Absa Group, brought some top fintech companies together to come up with some answers....
...rush . . . trying to scale up something before it is fully operational, in the sense that we can ensure credit integrity, then I think it will be really bad” for the climate, says Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio...
...Now some of them, like Lygia Clark, Tarsila [do Amaral] and Ana Maria Maiolino, are the most important.”...
...Could I persuade you to read it too through Maria Popova’s words? (Brain Pickings) Before you go A bit of comic relief If I had a family crest, the motto would be: “Laugh so you don’t cry.”...
...Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, accused Germany of deliberately ignoring the Kremlin’s offers to help investigate Mr Navalny’s poisoning....
...The podcast is lively, accessible and enthusiastic, and the 80-odd episodes have featured everyone from the uber-curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tate director Maria Balshaw to artists Kaws (Brian Donnelly...
...In and among it all are rare vintage pieces – YSL, Lanvin – selected by the fashion curator Carmen Haid....
...Nonetheless there’s an irresistible lure to these disparate, experimental works reminiscent of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Roupenian or the gothic magic of Isabel Allende....
...By contrast Carmen Calvo, deputy prime minister in Mr Sánchez’s caretaker government, insisted that the Socialists would not discuss any move towards Catalan independence....
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