by the El Reportero’s news services
Juan Mahuel SerratSpanish singer songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat will give today in Mexico City the last of five concerts in the Palace of Fine Arts, where the artist will share with the audience new and old songs.
“Fasten up your garter and seat belts because we are going to travel in time and through nostalgia,” the Catalan musician warned during his first presentation, performed on Jan. 27.
On Sunday inhabitants of the capital had the possibility to enjoy Serrat’s last concert, who has been acclaimed in each of his previous presentations and forced to go back to stage and perform other memorable songs such as Fiesta y Lucia.
Yesterday, the concert of one of the most renowned songwriters of Spanish and Catalan music was broadcasted live on giant screens set in the terrace of the Museum of Fine Arts, and also in Guadalajara and Colima cities.
As part of his tour in Mexican territory, Serrat will also perform in 2014 in Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua.
Argentina to have greater representation at Monologue Festival
Argentina will participate at the Second Latin American Monologue Festival that will take place next February 12th to the 15th in Cienfuegos, Cuba, as the best represented foreign country with six theater troupes, organizers said today.
Playwright Miguel Cañellas, director of the festival’s main venue Tomás Terry Theater, told Prensa Latina the contest coincides with the theater’s 124th anniversary, founded on February 12th, 1890.
The Argentinian representation, integrated by companies like Sin testigos, Chakarunas, Tan solo hazlo, Proxemia cero, La Espina and El Rito Prohibido-Teatro, is outnumbered only by the Cuban one, this time with seven companies: Teatro de la Luna, Mujeres fuentes de creación, Teatro Pálpito, Buendía-Alba, Mejunje, Teatro del Puerto and Teatro Rumbo.
In general, around 26 theater troupes from Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela will also compete.
The five-day festival 2014will include more than 60 performances in Cienfuegos only, but Havana, Matanzas and Villa Clara will also join the festival. Prensa Latina contributed to this report.
French Film Academy Nominates “Blancanieves,” “Gravity” for Best Foreign Film
Spanish director Pablo Berger’s “Blancanieves” and “Gravity” from Mexico’s Alfonso Cuaron will vie for the Cesar Award for best foreign film, the French film academy said Friday.
“Blancanieves” and “Gravity” will compete at the gala to be held Feb. 28 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris against such movies as Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” and “Django Unchained” by Quentin Tarantino.
Also seeking the prize will be the Italian production “La Grande Bellezza” by Paolo Sorrentino, and the Belgian films “Dead Man Talking” by Patrick Ridermont and “Alabama Monroe” by Felix Van Froeningen.
At the last Cesar Awards, the prize for best foreign film went to “Argo” by Ben Affleck, which went on to take the Oscar in Hollywood for best picture.
Jennifer López Releases Music Video for “Same Girl” (VIDEO)
In a song that will have you remembering Jenny From the Block, Jennifer Lopez shoots the video in her old neighborhood, The Bronx.
The song, Same Girl, is the new single from J.Lo’s forthcoming eighth studio album.
It is obvious that the American Idol judge is trying to give off the message that she hasn’t changed when you listen to the lyrics.
“Why you tryna put the world up on my shoulders? … Too damn grown, I don’t owe nobody … Why you tryna put the world up on my shoulders? … Too damn grown, I don’t owe nobody … Cuz in the end I’m still the same girl.”
