
Sílvia Pérez Cruz
musician
“Singing sad songs doesn’t cause me pain; it helps me cleanse”
Wanting, in her words, to “vindicate the beauty and richness of all ages”, Sílvia Pérez Cruz (Palafrugell, 1983) has structured her new album, Toda la vida, un día (Sony Music), into five “movements”...

City of cocktails
Barcelona has the first (Paradiso), third (Sips) and seventh (Two Schmucks) best cocktail bars in the world, while Raval is home to historic bars like Boadas

A tale of two cities
In a 2012 book (Modesta España), veteran journalist Enric Juliana explained Spanish governments’ consistent economic discrimination against Catalonia by pointing out that Europe will in the future look...

The spy capital
Diplomats, civil servants, journalists and academics move around the European Union capital of Brussels without being what their credentials say they are

THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE
THERE’S YOUR EXPLANATION
In his article on the facing page regarding the economic status of Barcelona and Madrid within the Spanish state, Eduard García – a member of the Economy Section of the Catalan National assembly –...
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Mireia Vilanova. marcela topor. mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat
is a Barcelona-born, LA-based producer working in film, TV and digital media. She has led numerous projects in the US and Europe that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Tribeca, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Outfest and Palms Springs ShortFest, among others. She is currently in pre-production on her debut feature, I Live Here Now, directed by Julie Pacino
