A good restaurant and an addictive series: what you can't miss this week

The week that begins, with Jordi Garrigós

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

I will go at the Teatre Lliure to seeThe deer's rut, the new work of La Calórica afterThe congress does not march noIt seems like they have a permanent home in this section, but the reality is that every time you see their shows, you leave the theater convinced that those two hours were truly worth it. From what I've read in the reviews, it's got everything we love about La Calórica: politics, comedy, badassery, and top-notch drama. And may there be much more.

 

I will listenMore, the long-awaited new album by Pulp, the first after they closed their glorious era in 2001 withLove life. It has always been said that Jarvis Cocker was the great lyricist of BritPop, and rightly so, his lyrics were the most biting and ironic of his generation and were full of highly intelligent local colour. Got to have love, the album's latest preview, gives us a sense of a more vibrant, club-friendly Pulp, one of the Sheffield group's familiar faces. To top it all off, the song's video pays homage to Northern Soul.

I will buyBad smell,Nadia Hafid's new graphic novel and 2024 Ventanas Comic Prize winner in Catalan. Hadid confirms herself as one of the most in-form authors in the country with a work that focuses on violence and workplace harassment and explores the systemic racism in our society. After making a brilliant debut withThe good fatherand confirm withJackals, it is a pleasure to follow the career of this cartoonist, who now also jumps into Catalan with Editorial Finestres ~

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 laughed much with the show that Magí Garcia, better known as Modgi, has done at the Jove Teatre Regina: How much dignityThe show ended last week, but will return in the fall. If you're in the mood for a laugh and aren't afraid of humor about thorny issues like racism, the Catalan language, terrorism, and the reasons why he quit the show, Free Trade Zone from TV3, is a very good choice. You'll have a guaranteed night of laughter with jokes that always play on political incorrectness.

I have enjoyed A lot at the Món Llibre festival held this weekend at the CCCB and the Gabriel García Márquez Library. We opted for the first location, where we enjoyed workshops, activities, theater performances, and games centered around children's and young adult literature. There were also spaces to rest, relax, and read. An event designed to be enjoyed with children from a young age—there are spaces dedicated to early childhood—and to help foster a passion for books.

I got excited with the movie Flow, winner of this year's Oscar for best animated filmIt's a beautiful work without a single dialogue, yet it moves us to tears with its story of friendship and cooperation between a cat, a capybara, a dog, a lemur, and a secretary bird. A modern version of Noah's Ark in a world engulfed by a natural disaster, where animals learn to help and care for one another, thanks to beautifully animated and poetic animation.

I couldn't stop thinking about The words of singer Eva Amaral, who opened up this week on a podcast with the group Prisa and explained the great aesthetic pressure she's endured throughout her career, especially for not fitting into very specific beauty standards set by an industry that wanted young, very thin, scantily clad singers. "I felt fat, and when I look at images from that time now, I see myself as very thin," she admitted, demonstrating that this pressure ends up affecting one's perception of oneself and one's own body. The singer has said that she has struggled throughout her career with the anxiety caused by the feeling of not fitting in.

More suggestions for plans and activities

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• Plans to do with children
• Series premiering this month
• Video games being released this month
• What you can do in the Girona regions
• New restaurants to discover
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