Spain

Katie Price upset over Gary's trip with Tamara

TV Gossip

26 Aug 2011

Katie Price is upset after her friend Gary Cockerill turned down an invitation to go to Spain with her to fly out to Greece with Tamara Ecclestone instead. The reality TV star had asked Gary and his TV presenter husband Phil Turner to join her in…

Anna Friel was Ifans' neighbour

Celebrity Gossip

16 Jul 2011

Anna Friel and Rhys Ifans own homes beside each other in Spain. The couple have known each other for years but only started dating last year after the 'Pushing Daisies' actress split from her partner of 10 years David Thewlis - who is the father of…

Johnny Vegas weds

TV Gossip

31 Mar 2011

Johnny Vegas has got married. The former 'Benidorm' star tied the knot with PR consultant Maia Dunphy in a ceremony at a Spanish ranch in front of 120 family and friends, who were treated to a traditional Mediterranean menu of gazpacho, cured meats…

Gary Moore dies aged 58

Music Gossip

7 Feb 2011

Guitarist Gary Moore has died at the age of 58. The former Thin Lizzy rocker was found dead in his hotel room in the early hours of yesterday morning (06.02.11) by his girlfriend and it is thought he died after chocking on his own vomit after…

The Passion Within

Period detail and good-looking actors in an unremarkable film

17 Aug 2010

‘You f**k like a boy’, reads the message that an actress leaves smeared in red lipstick across the bedroom mirror of a famous bullfighter in this 1940s Spain-set biopic that focuses on the tempestuous romance between Lupe Sino (Penelope Cruz) and…

Málaga Feria - a day in the life of the free, Spanish festival

23 Jul 2009

If there are a thousand reasons to be in Edinburgh during the Festival there are as many to escape, and where better than a free festival in a Mediterranean port founded by the Phoenicians some 3000 years ago. Which is why, at midnight on a mid-August…

The Discovery of Spain - The National Gallery

Work by the country's artists from Old Masters to iconic cubists

13 Jul 2009

After tantalising visitors with idyllic views of Turner’s Italy in their last major exhibition, the National Galleries have turned their attention to Spain for their new Festival show. Rather than concentrating upon the work of a single artist, the…

Shiver (Eskalofrio)

Edinburgh International Film Festival

19 Jun 2008

(Isidro Ortiz, Spain) 91min Once again Spain is proving to be a breeding ground for newly discovered horror talent. Isidro Ortiz puts in his most satisfying feature yet as paranoia and the old staple of something lurking in the woods are brought into…

Indómitos

8 May 2008

ROCK Nice’n’Sleazy, Glasgow, Sat 19 Apr From the moment they take the stage with a dry ‘goodnight, we are Indómitos’, to when they amble off the stage having delivered a pitch-perfect set of rattling, rumbling and reverb-drenched garage punk, it’s…

Rafael Reig

Depicting a futuristic Madrid

9 Aug 2007

Rafael Reig, the author, lecturer and composer of a PhD thesis on 19th-century literary depictions of the prostitute, certainly knows how to choose an apt quotation.