Winning the 2025 Virginia Pennock Scholarship for the Landscape Architect Registration Examination revalidation was a turning point for Yanira Delgado Rivera, center, who is flanked by Victor Blay, left, executive director of the Puerto Rico Architects and Landscape Architects Association (CAAPPR), and CAAPPR President Alexandra Betancourt. (Instagram via 90gradosdigital) By THE STAR STAFF Yanira Delgado Rivera has always been creative, drawn since childhood to colors, forms,

By AIMEE ORTIZ Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has denied allegations that he sexually assaulted two of his former employees, days after Spanish prosecutors said they were investigating their claims. In a statement posted to his social media last Friday, Iglesias, 82, called the allegations “absolutely false.” He denied “having abused, coerced, or been disrespectful to any woman,” and said he would defend himself against the claims. The Grammy-winning singer was accused of sexu

The film focuses on several farmers, particularly Willie Head Jr. and Carlie Williams, who are carrying on a legacy and scrambling to hang onto their families’ land in increasingly impossible painful situations. (Indox) By ALISSA WILKINSON At first, only certain modern articles of clothing reveal that “Seeds” (in theaters), Brittany Shyne’s extraordinarily beautiful documentary, is set in contemporary America. The film is shot in black and white, and its images feel so ageles

Romeo Santos in New York, Dec. 11, 2025. Despite huge collaborations, top-selling albums and sellout tours, the leading stars of the Dominican genre still feel like they haven’t received their due. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times) By JON CARAMANICA and JOE COSCARELLI By most conventional metrics, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce, the two biggest stars of Dominican bachata music, are global superstars. Since his time fronting the wildly successful and musically radical boy ba

By JASON HOROWITZ Spanish prosecutors said earlier this week that they were investigating claims that Spanish singer Julio Iglesias had sexually abused two of his former employees. The two former employees filed a complaint with a Spanish high court on Jan. 5, according to officials there. On the same day, two Spanish-language news outlets published a three-year joint investigation into broader allegations of sexual assault and harassment by Iglesias. Russell King, who is lis

Conductor Rafael Enrique Irizarry, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra’s assistant music director (Facebook via Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico - Página Oficial) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Over the past week, the musicians of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) have been walking around in a daze, their heads in the clouds. Or so their conductor Rafael Enrique Irizarry believes. In a text talk with the STAR, the orchestra’s associate music director outl

“Troll 2” By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI This month’s picks feature torrents, trolls and time travel. ‘Troll 2’ Since “Troll” (2022) is the most watched non-English language movie on Netflix (according to the streamer), odds were good that a sequel would materialize. Lo and behold, Norwegian director Roar Uthaug is back with more Kaiju mayhem featuring humans in wool sweaters and practical fleece confronting XXL creatures from Nordic folklore. The first movie’s three leads return a

Erich von Däniken at AlienCon in Pasadena, Calif., on June 15, 2018. Erich von Däniken, the best-selling Swiss author and self-styled maverick archaeologist who propagated the theory that thousands of years ago an advanced alien species visited Earth, mated with ancient humans and gave them the technology, and the intelligence, to erect such marvels as the Great Pyramids, died on Saturday in Switzerland. He was 90. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times) By MIKE PEED Erich von Dän