Ha pasado bastante tiempo sin un podcast de Sparky y Oso. Con mucho gusto, y un poco de orgullo, les presentamos 10 canciones para comenzar el mes de junio. Como siempre, yo le envié 5 temas que me han gustado reciente a Sparsh y él seleccionó las otras 5 canciones y editó el podcast. Que [...]

Since my dear friend, Cindylu, just published a post titled “On Beauty”, I figure I might as well dig through my unpublished drafts and publish one with nearly the same title. I wrote this about a year and a half ago over a steaming glass of chai in Delhi, India. I’m looking forward to reading [...]

First of all, let me emphasize that the super gringo accent is not mine. That belongs to none other than Mr. Steven Mansour. My yankee voice only makes the occasional brief cameo after the 5 minute mark. Steve did a great job producing the video, which documents the successes of the Kangaroo Program (New York [...]

La primera vez que conocí Georgia en Londres, ella me explicó su estilo de poppletrotting (su appellido es Popplewell y ‘trot’ en inglés es trotar). Poppletrotting es una forma de viajar. Sin estrés, sin discusiones, con itinerarios flexibles, pero sin planes concretos. Y, sobre todo, cuando poppletrotamos no pasamos cada segundo de cada día juntos. [...]

It was the half hour sliver of clock that is neither day nor darkness. But nobody realized. Not the prostitutes nor the cocktail waitresses nor my taxi driver, cheerfully escorting one more stranger back to the airport, back to where he came from. “Where do you come from?” he asks. There are two types of [...]

This will have to be an English-only post until I get the video of Nicholas up on dotSUB and add Spanish subtitles. I’m currently at the Calabash International Literary Festival with Georgia, Nicholas, Annie, Kei, Peter, Jonathan, JJ, and company. Here’s a video interview I recorded with Nicholas Laughlin, editor of the Caribbean Review of [...]

Every two weeks we feature four to five posts by Rising Voices participants as a way of showcasing some of the finest content from new voices that are typically ignored by both traditional and new media. In order to make new voices heard, however, we must be willing to hear them. Please take twenty minutes [...]

Hay dos maneras de pensar sobre la Virgen de Llamas por Chris Abani. A.) es una novela típica (y exagerada) escrito por un profesor izquierdista de la Universidad de California que se trata de la identidad, la sexualidad y la etnia. B.) es una investigación perspicaz de los dos barrios más pobres de Los Angeles, [...]

The blue of the Las Vegas sky and the force of its sun never change throughout the day. It could be 8 a.m. or 6 p.m. Either way it’s bright and hot as hell. The lego-like horizon of the strip stares over the rest of the city in a stupor of superiority, full of its [...]

Tengo tres invitaciones abiertas a Brightkite para los que dejan los primeros tres comentarios en este post. (Pero tienen que vivir en Buenos Aires.) Hace años los futuristas nos avisaban que iba a llegar el día en que estamos caminando por la calle y recibimos un aviso cada vez que estamos dentro de 200 metros [...]