“I’m noticing it’s getting harder and harder for me to go out partying,” says Albert Thió Hortoneda, 26, from Barcelona. “You go into a club at two in the morning, you’ve paid 20 euros, and to get your money’s worth, you have to stay until six. This throws my sleep patterns off a bit,” he explains. He says that packaged, consumer-focused partying that lasts for hours on end doesn’t appeal to him. “I hadn’t really thought about it being a generational thing, but I do see that a lot of people around me are experiencing the same thing,” he points out. In fact, articles and videos with hashtags like "We've normalized not going out"where very young people speak openly about not going out partying in their 20s. What was once a stigma – having to tell friends not to include you in their plans – seems to have found its niche on TikTok with hashtags on well-being and self-care.

The recurring question these last few days among friends, acquaintances, and people I've greeted has been unequivocal: "What do you think of the therians"A question imbued with unease and an almost urgent need to confirm the suspicion that, as humanity, we are going down the wrong path." The community meeting on February 21st The protest at the Arc de Triomf in Barcelona elevated the issue to the level of a collective threat when, in reality, it was nothing more than a gathering of curious teenagers. The episode was experienced as a big-game hunt, with the implicit objective of capturing one of these supposed specimens to feed social media. And theriansnot a trace.

The jewelry world has been experiencing a boom for the past few years, thanks to its embrace by men and younger audiences, allowing it to go far beyond traditional designs. New and established brands alike are exploring exciting new territories, resulting in designs that are much more personalized than everyone else's, reflecting the individual wearer.

ARA was barely three months old when Santi Santamaria, a bastion of traditional Catalan cuisine, died unexpectedly in Singapore. Five months later El Bulli closed its doors for good.The restaurant in Cala Montjoi that revolutionized cuisine worldwide and popularized terms like spherification. This ended the struggle between two factions in our country: those who defended creative cuisine and those who defended traditional cuisine. What came next?

Running to take care of yourself physically and mentally, to meet new people, to unwind, to flirt, to feel part of a group, to achieve goals, because you don't have much time, or simply to have a good time. Whatever the reason that leads someone to take up running, there's no doubt that running is in fashion. But the real reason why running is an increasingly popular sport lies in the fact that it has gone from being an individual activity to a social one. This is confirmed by the report. Year in Sport: Strava Trend Report, the world's leading sports social network.

Julia Quinn's literary universe will return to Netflix in early 2026. The Bridgertons It will arrive again divided into two parts, as happened with the previous season and with other productions of the platform such as Outer Banks, Emily in Paris or The WitcherAfter the two trailers for the fourth season, the third has revealed the long-awaited date: the first part will premiere on January 29, and the second on February 26. The announcement came as a surprise to fans of the series, who didn't expect it to arrive so soon. The new season will focus on the life of Benedict Bridgerton, the second son of the distinguished London family, played by Luke Thompson.

Whether by necessity or by will, the fact is that not drinking alcohol is starting to cease to be a rare elderly, as some of the best restaurants in Spain confirm. There are establishments that aren't convinced about offering commercial zero-calorie juices, soft drinks, or wines as an alternative to alcohol. The high amounts of sugar or additives these drinks contain can conflict with haute cuisine, where everything is measured to the millimeter.

Accessorizing dogs and cats is a common practice. Nowadays, it's no longer just bows and coats. Especially in the summer, accessories of all kinds proliferate: hats, flip-flops, and even costumes, which are added to aesthetic practices such as painting their nails or dyeing their hair. Behind all this, for the most part, there is a process of humanization—or rather, anthropomorphization—of animals, that is, an attribution of human characteristics to beings that are not. Experts warn that, while some humanization is inevitable and the result of coexistence, the use of certain ornaments and the desire to follow trends funny In the eyes of others, they can put the well-being and health of animals at risk.

It's official. According to the Meteorological Service of Catalonia, we have experienced the warmest June on record in our house since records began. And these first few days of July haven't been short either. All of this has boosted sales of all kinds of fans.

Its striking orange color is eye-catching, and now that summer has arrived, it's taking center stage among the cold drinks populating bar terraces. We're talking about the spritz, an aperitif cocktail where, in a glass or tumbler with ice, a wine—often a sparkling wine, like Prosecco—a bitters—such as Aperol or Campari—and soda or sparkling water are mixed together, topped off with an orange slice. As with so many other Italian products, the spritz has been an overwhelming success in Catalonia. Now, with the trend toward drinking less alcohol and more during the day—as well as at dusk—this cocktail has every chance of growing even further.

Clubs swinger, parties sex positive, shibari, introduction to BDSM, tantric experiences... The leisure offer focused on sexual experimentation is gaining visibility in different spaces in Catalan cities. "First, we talked about liberal sex, and now we talk about sex positive [or pro-sex], which refers to openness to experimenting with sexuality and is more open in terms of sexual orientation and the diversity of practices," explains Marina Vivó, psychologist and sexologist. "Openness does not mean the obligation to have sex," she clarifies. In fact, consent and respect are. This is where discretion and confidentiality predominate, which at the same time makes them quite hermetic - also because social media policies censor their promotion.

With the change in temperature, many people are starting to consider doing the famous wardrobe swap. A concept that we have become familiar with twice a year and that involves organizing that, in some cases, can take a few hours. But is it really necessary? For people like Patricia Eguidazu, author of the book The day she stopped buying clothes (Destiny 2025), changing your wardrobe is simply an invention of the fashion industry to encourage compulsive shopping.

"God is dead," Nietzsche said in the 19th century. Many years later, the phrase seems truer than ever. Many people have replaced God with activities that have a spiritual foundation but no religion. While we see churches emptying, we witness the success of meditation classes, yoga classes, or weekend retreats. For many young people, the new way to pray is manifesting, making wishes when a mirror hour appears on their phone screen (10:22 p.m., for example), or watching the tarot reader reading your cards in a TikTok video.

Hands cut onions, tomatoes and carrots quickly and perfectly. In the background, a ray of light enters through the window of a modern kitchen. vintage. ScrollA woman cleans a bathroom in fast motion until it is spotless. ScrollAn adorable cat plays with a ball on a sofa in any house. Scroll...And so on and so forth. Many of us declare ourselves addicted to the videos that platforms like Instagram or TikTok bombard us with without stopping. Day and night, we have the opportunity to get caught up watching videos in which people, often anonymous, appear doing all kinds of household chores that, apparently, have nothing extraordinary. How can watching them cause such addiction?

There is no goalkeeper guarding the door because you already have an exclusive ticket. The pass in question is a kind of golden ticket that immerses you in a curious experience. There is a fridge with soft drinks, juices, ginger shots in abundance, and even some beer. Promotional clothing is also on sale. dress code You are escorted to the room. In the red hallway, moving letters announce where you are. You enter in the darkness, take a seat among twenty people, the DJ sits down, puts on his own playlist – from Rosalía to techno and reggaeton – and suddenly, fluorescent lights come on everywhere. The mirrors reflect the perfect reflection for a selfie. You can't stop moving, but you are amazed: you realize that you are on a stationary bike and that the person in front of you is not Martin Garrix or David Guetta, but the trainer assigned to the class.

"I can finally go to the public pool and change in the changing room without fear of people looking at me and seeing me as something strange." Arantxa admits that after having undergone a radical lateral mastectomy, the result of an operation due to breast cancer, she felt "like an alien who is missing something." Browsing through Instagram, she discovered a paramedical tattoo artist who changed her life. "I am delighted with the result. Not only would I do it again, but I have recommended it to a friend who was in a similar situation to me," she explains. Resident in Madrid, Arantxa is one of the people who have decided to get a paramedical tattoo, an action that has noticeably improved her day-to-day life.

The first step in talking to your daughter about her body is not to talk to your daughter about her body", sentenced the journalist Sarah Koppelkam in the famous article "How to talk to your daughter about her body", published in the Huffington Post in 2013 and went viral around the world. Although the concept of body neutral had not yet been devised, Koppelkam was ahead of the feminist claims currently being defended and emphasised the importance of taking the body out of the centre of the debate. Thus, the author was writing in tune with what we nowadays baptize as body neutrality. Body neutrality: a movement that advocates the normalization of the human body as a source of health without the need to constantly celebrate physical appearance. It values the ideas and actions of the individual beyond their aesthetic characteristics and argues that it is also natural to look in the mirror and not always feel at ease. The actress Júlia Barceló is one of the defenders of body neutral and often shares her activism on social media. "Body neutrality undermines the aesthetic appearance as a social value, understands the body from its functionality and defends that you don't need to feel beautiful every day to be able to respect yourself", she explains.