• Music
    VALENCIA MUSIC…(EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW) WITH MIKE MCKOY

    1. Tell us something about your background and experiences… My perspective has changed over the years, and I’ve mellowed quite a bit. I enjoy wry humour, which might tempt me to frame my background as something out of an Edvard Munch painting. But that would be nonsense, and perhaps pernicious – because not only have […]

  • History
    THE BORGIAS (VALENCIA’S MOST INFAMOUS FAMILY)

    “You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo […]

  • Music
    VALENCIA MUSIC…. ALEX CONDE ‘PIANO FLAMENCO EXPLORATIONS’

    24/7 VALENCIA: Can you tell us about your musical training and education? ALEX CONDE: My musical training began at home, at the age of 4, accompanying my father playing his songs, teaching me by ear how to accompany and provide the chords that the melody gives you. When I was 8 years old, thanks to […]

  • Art
    LES ARTS ÉS ÒPERA’… VERDI’S ‘FALSTAFF’ MARCH 2021

    ##Palau de Les Arts (Valencia) premieres Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’, starring Ambrogio Maestri under the musical direction of Daniele Rustioni. – Les Arts presents Verdi’s last opera in a staging by Mario Martone for the Berlin Staatsoper, which moves the action to a contemporary metropolis.- Ainhoa Arteta, Violeta Urmana, Davide Luciano and Sara Blanch perform, alongside Maestri, […]

  • Food
    SLOW-BRAISED LAMB WITH ONION GRAVY

    ##So, with winter still with us, I thought it appropriate this month to share a dish with you to warm the cockles of your collective hearts. Casserole and crock-pot time continues to be upon us. Although most people wince at the sound of those “C” words, conjuring memories from ghosts of bad-dinners past, once you’ve […]

  • Food
    ARTICHOKES AND FRENCH PISSALADIER TART

    ##By Helen Westwater of ‘La Ola Fresca’ There are some vegetable that are beautiful to look at, but when it comes to preparing them it can seem too much of a lengthy process. The aptly named artichoke is a good example. Arty certainly, but can cause some procrastination or blocks when it comes to preparing […]

  • Music
    VALENCIA MUSIC! ‘TARIQ’… EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ANDRÉS BELMONTE

    ##24/7 Valencia: Andrés, can you take us through your album ‘Tariq’? Andrés Belmonte of Tariq: My trip starts in Valencia, arrives in Cairo via Istanbul and then rests in Valencia once again. On this ‘Tariq’ road appears ‘El Henna’ & ‘Hobbi’, which are compositions by Mohamed Abdel Wahab, a colossus of the golden age of […]

  • Art
    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH LEGENDARY FILMMAKER & PHOTOGRAPHER LARRY CLARK (IN VALENCIA)

    Born in 1943, Larry Clark is a living legend when it comes to urban photography and edgy filmmaking… including the coming-of-age, award-winning film ‘Kids’. Directors Gus Van Sant, Francis Ford Coppolla & Martin Scorsese have cited Clark’s photography collection as a major influence in their films, including ‘Taxi Driver.’ As a teenager, Larry Clark suffered […]

  • Art
    ART IN VALENCIA … ‘OFICINA ESOUND’

    ##The Esound Music & Arts agency, responsible for events and concerts by artists such as Chano Domínguez, Carmen Consoli, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Martirio, opens its physical headquarters with the artistic curatorial project Oficina Esound, which consists of inviting established artists to create an installation at the agency’s headquarters, located in the Ruzafa neighbourhood. -Valencian artist […]

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