‘The Eiffel Tower is a suppository riddled with holes’: When great monuments aren’t to everyone’s liking
El País Englishby Ianko López·8d ago
If the line between the sublime and the ridiculous is thin – according to the maxim attributed to Napoleon (among others) – in some examples of architectural projects, that line is never even...
Las Ketchup, the Spanish girl group: ‘We were very badly advised. Nobody cared that our bodies ached’
El País Englishby Ángeles Caballero·8d ago
On Sunday July 19, while the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina was being played, millions of people heard The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) playing as the first hydration break began.
No more photos, profiles, or matches: In the future of dating apps, AI will choose your partner
El País Englishby Marita Alonso·8d ago
At the end of last year, Justin McLeod, the founder of the dating app Hinge (thanks to which New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met his wife, Rama Duwaji), left his role as CEO to create another...
From clothing to yerba mate and cell phones: smuggled goods flood Argentina
El País Englishby Delfina Torres·8d ago
In recent years, the circulation of smuggled goods has increased significantly in Argentina. This is something that consumers and business owners can attest to, even though the phenomenon eludes...
Nancy Cartwright, philosopher: ‘People distrust science because they feel the system has abandoned them’
El País Englishby Selva Vargas Reátegui·9d ago
Are scientific laws enough to explain how the world works? Nancy Cartwright, 81, has spent more than half a century asking whether they really are.
Reactionary Americas: The global laboratory of the right
El País Englishby Javier Lafuente·9d ago
Nayib Bukele has turned El Salvador into a global showcase for public security, albeit at the cost of, at the very least, undermining the country’s institutions and leveraging his undeniable...
Pramila Jayapal, Democratic congresswoman: ‘We have to prepare in case Trump tries to steal the elections’
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·9d ago
Representative Pramila Jayapal, 60, arrived in the United States at the age of 16 to study and, in 2017, after a career as a civil rights activist, became the first Asian American to represent...
Sixty years of post-credits scenes: A history that began long before Marvel
El País Englishby Constanza Pérez Z.·9d ago
When the end of Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives, moviegoers in the theater know they should stay in their seats because it’s Marvel tradition to insert a small treat after the credits.
The science behind the feeling that childhood summers never end
El País Englishby Irene Mollá Segura·9d ago
A two-year-old boy watches, mesmerized, as ants march in a line across the sand. He pokes at them with a stick; some climb up his arm.
‘He was deaf, gay, and cried in all his songs’: Johnnie Ray, the brilliant and forgotten rocker who paved the way for Elvis
El País Englishby Jordi Bardají·9d ago
“He was deaf, gay, and cried in all his songs.” Such are the words of filmmaker John Waters describing singer Johnnie Ray in a recent interview with The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman.
‘Luis Buñuel: 1.73 meters tall, freckles on his face’: The Spanish exodus to the Americas after the Civil War, told through 100,000 documents
El País Englishby Manuel Morales Ruiz·12d ago
The Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) was 1.73 meters tall, had thick eyebrows, a straight nose and some freckles on his face.
David Crowley’s razor-thin victory in Wisconsin primaries exposes Democrats’ deep division
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·12d ago
The metaphor was perfect. Three and a half hours after the polls closed this Tuesday, each candidate had 39.9% of the vote, with a margin of fewer than 200 ballots.
Vlaada Chvátil, inventor of the hit game Codenames: ‘I’m a perfectionist’
El País Englishby Tommaso Koch·13d ago
Whenever he is working on a new board game, Vlaada Chvátil thinks about it constantly. “Every spare minute,” he says. Whether he is in the shower or awake at 3 a.m.
Tourism with an ex‑drug trafficker: Laureano Oubiña offers ‘narcotour’ to the spots where he once smuggled tobacco and hashish
El País Englishby Elisa Lois·14d ago
Laureano Oubiña, a historic figure of smuggling and drug trafficking in Spain, doesn’t mind being called the Hashish King.
Christiane Martel, the first French Miss Universe, tells her Mexican story
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·15d ago
For Christiane Magnani de Alemán, the first French woman to be crowned Miss Universe in 1953, the impossible does not exist.
Ric Prado, ex-CIA officer: ‘Cuba is the next apple to fall from the tree’
El País Englishby Antoni Belchi·19d ago
Enrique “Ric” Prado is 75, his voice measured from having told this story many times and from an uncomfortable habit: saying in public things most people with his résumé prefer to keep to...
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