AS an increasing amount of people find themselves with time on their hands (there are only so many shelves you can put up) they are turning to the TV in record numbers. Of course, these days there are more ways to watch your preferred option than there are choices of channel it seems, but probably the biggest global player is Netflix – and their most watched new series is raising a few...
WAYNE Schlesinger, a multi award winning pop musician described as one of the most eclectic and talented people on the modern music scene, has died after catching the coronavirus aged just 52. He started out in alt-rockers Ivy who built a solid underground following but found his first real mainstream success with Indie power-pop band Fountains of Wayne. He co-wrote their best known song “Stacey’s...
Studio32 Musical Theatre Company are pleased to announce that rehearsals for our next production are well in advance. The plot centres on an American Naval Nurse, Ensign Nellie Forbush who has been stationed on a South Pacific Island during World War II. Nellie falls in love with a middle-aged expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children. The Musical has many memorable...
OLIVA is holding a series of free concerts to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, arguably the greatest and best known classical composer of all time. The first concert is this Thursday (20 February) and is for flute and piano at the Music Conservatory in the south of the town. Subsequent performances are on the 24 February, 2, 23, 26 and 31 March, 27 and 30 April and finally 8 and 22...
THE Alicante University Museum (MUA) is currently holding an exhibition about the huge boom in Latin American literature in the 1960s. Many of the most important books in the age of modern literature were written in this period by authors such as Mario Vargas, Julio Cortazar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is perhaps the best known. The phenomenon came about for a...