THEY gave the world flamenco but are treated as pariahs in their own...
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THEY gave the world flamenco but are treated as pariahs in their own country. Now Spain - s gypsies have called on the advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi to create a multi-million pound advertising campaign to ...
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They have been criticized roundly, at home and here in Europe, sometimes by their own coach. What the team lacks is to some observers more obvious than its attributes.
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A published account of Italyâs national malaise prompted a critical â and very public â collective self-assessment.
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WE talk about Olympic moments: the torch, the record-setting performances. But some of the great moments are unrecorded ones, the inspiration shared between the athletes themselves.
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At times it was desperate, and occasionally ugly. It also was a point in the World Cup for Angola.
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While director Calixto Bieito is right to update Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the problem is that he does it badly, with a limited repertory of (mostly sexual) gestures.
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Too often âTango Fireâ tries to suggest that the tango will be rendered more enjoyable by shows of flashy temperament, obvious sexiness or sheer tartiness.
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New Latin acts are getting a major break thanks to an unusual sponsorship opportunity.
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The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
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Not everyone is following the lead of the Seattle Art Museum and its evocation of Spain this month with its handsome exhibition "Spain in the Age of Exploration," but some are, including the Seattle Baroque ...
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Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers.
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Two centuries ago, Napoleon Bonaparte sent his armies into Spain to overthrow a monarch who had once been a French ally. Napoleon, who believed he was touched by the hand of destiny, predicted his troops would be welcomed as liberators by ordinary Spaniards. He was wrong. The resulting Peninsular...
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MADRID, Sep 10  (IPS) - Four well-known Venezuelan folk musicians were  deported when they arrived to perform at Spainâs Canary Islands,  where the community reacted with anger and pointed out that the  South American country took in tens of thousands of Spaniards  during the 1939-1975 dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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Every cook relies every day on the power of heat to transform food â but most donât understand it.
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By THEODORE BALE "The Barber of Seville" was a hot new opera nearly 200 years ago.  In the 21st century, what's hot is contemporary flamenco from Seville.
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By Ken Hunt  When the vocalist Fer-nanda de Utrera died, ElPais hailed her as "surely, the best solearera of all time".Shehadacom-mand of several flamenco song idioms, but soled, said to be related to soledad (solitude) - and all the desolation that that word summons - was her forte.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Amid tumbledown cinder-block homes, the Don Bosco community center rings with music. A chorus of pint-size students sings traditional Christmas songs; 20 budding teenage musicians take gratingly painful stabs at playing violins and cellos; and tiny harpists dwarfed by their...