THE UNDRESSING OF RITA MAESTRE »
She and others undressed from waist up in the Catholic chapel on campus and she was fined by the court for offending religious sentiments. Only she.
JUST A LITTLE DID-YOU-KNOW? »
"By 2050 the United States of America could be the biggest Spanish-speaking country in the world!"
A GUIDEPOST REPRINT: “HOLY WEEK PRELUDE”, 23 April 1976 »
"In Spain, the Semana Santa without the religious processions would not be Semana Santa. But there's more to the Holy Week than these corteges of lifelike images of the crucified Jesus and Our Lady of Sorrows, his sorrowful mother. For the inveterate music lover concert programming need not be interrupted just because it is Holy Week"
TO KNOW CERVANTES IS TO KNOW SPAIN »
Cervantes, the world's greatest novelist in the Spanish language, contributed significantly to the building of the Spanish nation, considering that language is a crucial element of a nation. The Spanish language is la lengua de Cervantes
FIRST FOOD ON WHEELS CHAMPIONSHIP »
At last, a Food Truck Championship for Spain!
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE SPANISH SIESTA? »
The siesta, like the fiesta, is too deeply embedded in the Spanish psyche. But how about the hectic lifestyle that the Spaniards have had to embrace, reluctantly, these recent yeas and which leaves very little rooml for the midday nap?
AN INVITATION FROM THE AMERICAN CLUB OF MADRID TO THEIR MARCH EVENTS »
If it's fun, profitable and and propitious events,, it must be the American Club's!
STATESIDE STORIES: Barras de Pan »
The memory of fresh sardines in landlocked Madrid; bread in the States with all sorts of national origins, not least Spanish, and how to make use of them when they grow stale; and lentil stew with chorizo transplanted to the States
