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Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 6th March 1927 - 17th April 2014
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“The dead man doesn’t help” – 7 Reasons To Run Away (2019) at the Raindance Film Festival Dir: Esteve Soler, Gerardo Quinto & David Torras
Brutal, hilarious, black humour at its best, the film ‘7 Reasons to Run away’ (2019) is made up from a group of independent stories listed under respectable, socially conscious titles: Solidarity, Order, Property, Work,…
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For Mexican fans, the World Cup is a complicated affair. It has been a bittersweet past few years, full of passion from the fans and lack of results from the team. But as the 2026 World Cup approaches, the energy around El Tri…
origo: an earth giant at the Barbican
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Nicolá Cruz Prende el Alma (ZZK Records)
French/Ecuadorian producer Nicolá Cruz’ first full-length album is a masterpiece of experimental electronic music fused with folk sounds. No fillers but a great amalgam of folk percussion, Andean flutes with synths, and…
Rediscovering The Big Apple
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La Chiva se enganche!
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THE LAST DIVE (2025) Dir. Cody Sheehy
600 miles from the coast of Mexico, deep in the Sea of Cortés lies a volcanic island, San Benedicto. There, a man with a troubled past found peace and an extraordinary 19-year friendship whilst diving with a giant Pacific Manta…
Panama 2026: Believing in the Process
For a long time, Panama was seen as a baseball nation that occasionally played football. But their historic run to Russia 2018 changed the country’s sporting DNA forever. After narrowly missing out on Qatar, the federation did…
Things That Matter to...Fedzilla
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It’s not the first time that an all-star team from these twin Caribbean islands have collaborated to record songs from each other’s countries, but when you get Havana D' Primera, Cultura Profética, Charlie Aponte, Isaac…
Pagode: The Soundtrack of Togetherness
Brazilian music has always had a unique ability to transform emotion into rhythm, but few genres capture that feeling quite like pagode. Warm, intimate and deeply communal, pagode is more than just a style of music in Brazil. It…
Maracujá, the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and the March of Folly
When tempers run high in Brazil - as they are over the clamour for Dilma's Impeachment - ask for passion fruit juice to calm the nerves. And so it was done in Congress' special session on the matter, where the Attorney…
Agente Rex ‘La Tregua’
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