After decades of being frustrated by how ignored Spain has been in the American press, where Europe always meant France and Italy, suddenly it is in the news virtually every day for the wrong reasons.
Gone are the days of kings and queens ruling the populace from on high (in most of the world, anyway). But while many monarchs have fallen, their pala...
Recently I returned to Spain. It was a holiday but also a pilgrimage, a search for something not located in geographical space. I was tracking my parents' dream of Spain, of each other; my own dream of Spain as a place where we'd all been together.
Fundraising is a new concept in Spain; like most European countries, the government has been, by far, the major underwriter of arts programming. But major fiscal challenges facing the nation have forced the government to make substantial cuts to arts funding
After 16 weeks of navigating a city where hardly anyone spoke English (Granada is not like Madrid or Barcelona), the idea of becoming a citizen of the world started to feel like a reality.
The ancient adobes are newly dressed in bright tropical colors and filled with fine restaurants, small boutiques. Horse-drawn carriages still roll along the photogenic streets.
Cineastas de Granada has helped over 100 girls empower themselves with a camera by teaching girls how to find their stories, choose their shots and put the film into production.
Speak softly and carry a big stick. Twenty four hours after a start to bombing in Libya and it was all but over. A week later and we are handing the mop up operations to NATO and the Europeans.
In the future, all of us will have to make do with less. We can learn from our forebears, who lived in worlds where water was often scarce, frequently hard to obtain, and treated with great respect.
After touring Marbella on Wednesday in a one-shouldered Jean Paul Gaultier top, Michelle Obama brought some color to Granada's cathedral on Thursday. ...
Yesterday was life-changing. I could write a book about this one part of my visit to Nicaragua, so describing it in a few paragraphs is going to be a challenge.
