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...hotel, like the gleaming white village that envelops it, fuses local tradition with a modern and international sensibility. Gaucín is developing into a new Deia or Fornalutx: a magnet, just like those Mallorcan hot spots, for affluent north European bohemians who want to immerse themselves in Spanish culture without the bother of learning Spanish. The Casablanca perfectly serves that constituency, but also appeals to a wider clientele...
...which wireless carrier they use. The free program, Citi Mobile, will be available for customers in Southern California via download this week at Citibank.com and will go nationwide this summer. AT&T, Sprint and Verizon customers can start using the program this week, with other carriers and a Spanish-language version out later this year. "We're changing. Banking is changing," said Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince at the launch event in New York City on Monday morning. "I look forward to the competition trying to keep up with...
...Another particularly noticeable element was the sound design: scene transitions were accompanied by lovely Spanish guitar pieces composed by Daniel Salas. Less lovely was the over-reliance on pre-recorded voices for crowds when having a few actors shout would have been just as effective. The famous “Beware the Ides of March” soothsayer was also a ghostly recorded voice in this production; accompanied by dimmed lights and a pause in the action, the effect was overly portentous...
With a pair of conspicuous flags—one American, the other Israeli—at the back of the small round stage and masses of plastic chairs arranged in the auditorium, Broza’s concert of Hebrew, Spanish, and English folk music threatened to swallow itself in maudlin tokenism. The Caucus gave Broza an ominously exoticizing introduction: “We want to give you a taste of what Israel is all about.” Fortunately, Broza, a disarmingly charismatic performer, proved that he and his acoustic guitar have universal appeal—although a little knowledge...
...Broza explained that his lyrics come from poetry written by others because he doesn’t have as much faith in his writing skills as in his musicianship. Of course, good poetry doesn’t always make good lyrics, and the lyrics he chooses (at least in Spanish and English—I can’t speak to his selection of Hebrew lyrics) often show the kind of over-wrought balladeering that is endemic to folk music. To try to give you an idea, a sizeable chunk of his songs are in alternating quatrains; the hook...