Arnau Galmés, on bass; Roger Moragues, on guitar; Joel Moragues, on drums, and Ari Santos, on vocals. They are Espurna, the band that has just won the Ciutat de Manacor de la Cançó award. An award that reinforces the work they have done over the last year and a half and the EP of three songs they have just released on Spotify. We talk to them for a while to know their immediate plans.

Guillem Barceló has just opened Patxanga, a shop that complements his screen printing workshop opened a few years ago, where he sells his own designs based on iconic Mallorcan phrases transformed into drawings and colors. T-shirts, lunch boxes, and bottles are the beginning of a creative universe now installed in the old Ca na Verda premises.

Toni Planissi (Manacor, 1973) is a discreet man and an extraordinary author. A modesty that quickly dissolves when one begins to leaf through the pages of his new graphic novel Todas las mentiras conducen a la verdad, the story of two worlds confronting each other to defend a reality that each one believes to be their own and unshakeable. An ironic critique of politics, religion, and the foundations of agreed-upon truths, but often sustained by lies.

Ferran Montero Sitges, current councillor for Culture and Education, will be the next candidate for mayor of Manacor for MÉS-Esquerra, a party that thus becomes the first to publicly show its hand and make its face official for the May 2027 elections. Let's talk about it for a while.

It was December 1970 when a postal envelope sent from Manacor arrived by motorcycle at the Palacio del Pardo in Madrid. After the mandatory security checks, the envelope, the size of a sheet of paper, ended up on the table of the dictator Francisco Franco. Upon opening it, he discovered what they had already warned him about from Mallorca: inside was a subversive magazine, with articles in Catalan called Es Forat. Founded by Pep Lluís Fuster and Toni Riera, the publication aimed to offer a multidisciplinary view with articles on literature, cinema, and current affairs.

Josep Picó Matos was born on Carrer d'en Bosch on June 23, 1874, at a time when growing up in Manacor meant suffering economically and socially. From a Xueta family, he was the grandson of the also Manacorí Josep Picó Pomar Pabordo and Escolàstica Pomar, a native of Santa Maria. Baptized in the old church of dels Dolors, his name is not found in the civil registry.

In March 2022, the Servera family, linked to the Drac de Portocristo caves, put the S'Hort des Correu estate, on the outskirts of Manacor, up for sale. This definitively ended a century-old relationship between the space and the town, and with one of the most curious myths of Sant Joan's night. Around those dates, more than four years ago, the Llull family, the last caretakers of the house, had already left El Correu three years prior, shortly before the pandemic. And with them, the tradition of the magic vimer, the tree capable of curing hernias, had disappeared, once a year, for children who passed naked through its branches at sunrise on the shortest night, always at 6:20 AM.

A little over four months ago, the bridge over the Son Caules stream, which connects the two branches of the Camí de les Pedreres in Manacor, had to be closed indefinitely. The continuous passage of vehicles unsuitable and of great tonnage for the small infrastructure ended up causing the weakening of beams and joists and the appearance of a large hole. Now, and without an effective solution, the residents of the area have collected signatures to demand a response from the City Council, which in return has provided them with an alternative route through the stream, "a section that is unsafe, full of potholes, and when it rains it becomes impossible for us to pass, and therefore, we are left isolated," explains the spokesperson for those affected, Cati Valls.

The Mundana Command will perform by surprise at Manacor's Night of Art this Saturday. The rebel group of 80 artists, dissatisfied with the organization's work by the City Council and the treatment and conditions they are given when participating, are already working to have their demands ready.

“We ask the Manacor City Council and the Government to stop this aberration which, among other things, will produce eight tons of manure daily. When it rains, they will intoxicate all the aquifers that reach the city,” denounced this Wednesday afternoon Sílvia Llull, one of those affected by the mega-farm of 80,000 laying hens that the company Avícola Son Perot wants to build on the Manacor estate of Son Brau.

The latest problems and criticisms made public by users who have not been able to bury their loved ones, due to security problems, in family tombs, have led the City Council to now face the urgent need to reform the old part of the Son Coletes municipal cemetery, in Manacor. And it is that although the space, redeveloped between 1953 and 1957 after an initial use during the plague, has been in a state of evident degradation for years due to the passage of time and lack of maintenance, it has not been until recent weeks that the Consistory has decided to get down to business.

A comprehensive and million-dollar renovation. This is what the Manacor City Council announced this Tuesday during the presentation of the Action and Management Plan for the Son Coletes municipal cemetery, an initiative that combines urban planning actions, infrastructure investments, and a profound administrative modernization with the aim of guaranteeing the safety, conservation, and correct management of an essential public facility for the municipality.

The Platform for Public and Open Paths, GADMA, and various entities defending public heritage have today expressed concern over the start of private works on the Roca path, in Manacor, and are demanding its immediate halt. On Monday, June 1, the first movements were observed for the construction of two dry stone columns to install a barrier that will further close off the path, even though it initially seemed it would be reopened to be included in the Manacor Paths Catalogue.

The company Avícola Son Perot SA intends to carry out the construction of a new poultry farm for egg production on a plot located in the municipal district of Manacor, near the residential area of Son Talent, following the Ma-3322 road.

"It is an incredible lack of humanity and dignity. That the Administration wants to know nothing about it nor provides any effective solution in such a complicated moment says very little about their education and their little desire to fix it. It makes you want to take the deceased to the City Council and have them deal with it," criticizes Andreu Galmés from Manacor, grandson of a grandmother who this Tuesday midday was buried in the public cemetery of Manacor, far from her husband and far from the family's wishes, due to the lack of security and the closure of the family tomb. "And because the insurance we paid has provided us with another one, because the City Council only offered us a niche on a rental basis, without ensuring that my grandmother's remains can return where they belong."

Terraferida has filed a complaint with the Ministry of the Sea and Water Cycle of the Government so that it investigates the consumption of water resources generated by a farm in Manacor and another in Llucmajor that have individual golf courses.

The social and literary legacy of Jaume Santandreu i Sureda takes shape with the creation of the Foundation that bears his name. An entity that will be based in Manacor, in the Barracar neighborhood, and that is conceived and committed to preserving and disseminating both Santandreu's work in the field of social exclusion in Mallorca (with the aim of continuing the legacy started at Can Gazà) and his literary legacy.

What a market day must have been like in Manacor in the late 70s. This 16mm color footage shows that, while the urban planning and appearance of Plaça Ramon Llull have changed in these almost 50 years, there are others that continue to make the Manacor landscape very recognizable.

Jordi Sansó and Gabriela Brunet opened Casona Can Jordi in 1974, next to the Portocristo stream. Since then, one thing has led to another. Hamburgers, hot dogs, or skewers are the specialty of a house that his son Jordi still keeps. In less than 10 square meters a world, on a terrace half the town, and in the photos the memories of Can Jordiet, Can Jordió, or whatever the smell brings to mind first.

Neus Salas, director of the Sa Torre de Manacor health center, once again received the support this Tuesday from professionals, patients, and citizens of Manacor. More than 150 people gathered at La Bassa to defend the nurse whom the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has forced to leave her position because it considers that the center's management must fall to a doctor. From the rally in personal support of Neus Salas, a collective demand emerged: the call for management and responsibility positions in healthcare to be valued based on competencies and experience, beyond a strict interpretation of the medical qualification requirement.