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The finale of one of the hottest series and a surprising Japanese restaurant: what you can't miss this week

What you may have missed and what you definitely can't miss: the cultural and leisure activities of 'Ara Domingo'

A still from the third season of 'The White Lotus'.
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The week that begins, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will celebrate the release of Stereolab's new album dancing to their new song, Aerial troublesWe have been waiting fifteen years for Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier's group to decide to make a new album and it will finally be a reality in May, when it is released. Instant Holograms on Metal Film. Apparently, in the first preview, released this week, the band will maintain the strange—and delicious—mix of '60s rock with synth-driven krautrock that has made them so special.

I'll be back To see Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk. A few days ago, I read the comparison between the popularity of this performance format and the MTV Unplugged show of the '90s. And it's very well-found, because there's hardly anyone left to stop by the NPR Music office. As for Bad Bunny's appearance, it only confirms that we're experiencing, in real time, the unstoppable growth of a generational artist, a key name in popular music this century.

I will read Rachel Cusk's new novel, Parade, published in Catalan by LesHores. Facing each story of the British writer is like making a tour de force of intensity and emotion. No Cusk novel is easy; she demands a constant effort from the reader. As usual, art is the backdrop for dealing with things that come from the depths of each of us.

The week that ends, with Thaïs Gutiérrez Vinyets

Notes on what we have seen, heard, tasted and, ultimately, experienced in the last seven days

I had dinner at the Japanese restaurant Sun Taka, in Barcelona's Eixample district, and it's been a great discovery. You can try Japanese dishes that go beyond sushi and noodles. yakisoba (although, if you wish, there is also). The menu includes surprising proposals such as meat yakiniku, Japanese curry, seafood omelet tempura, and sea urchin with raw squid. A tip: let the waiters make suggestions. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

I'm done the third season of The White Lotus, one of the series of the moment and one most talked about by fans of television fiction. Although it's not on the same level as the first two, it has provided us with some good moments through characters isolated in their bubble of millionaires who share some crazy moments, suspense, and an ending that manages to tie everyone's minds together.

A scene from the new season of 'The White Lotus'

I have started the book The lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf, published by La Temeraria, which had been on my to-read pile for a long time. The novel, the author's fifth, traces three timelines where the protagonists, the Ramsey family, who spend the summer on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, take a trip to the lighthouse that gives the novel its name. It is one of Woolf's first books to achieve critical acclaim.

I couldn't stop thinking about the new DelaCrem Terra establishment, on Muntaner Street, where the person in charge of what is surely the best ice cream shop in Barcelona - the DelaCrem on Enric Granados Street - offers ice creams with the best ingredients in the country, in an attempt to highlight all the local products. We find ice creams made with Cadí cheese, Reus hazelnuts, and Les Garrigues pistachios, and up to twenty flavors with locally sourced ingredients.

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