Rita Indiana es un fenómeno por varias razones y esta entrevista que le hice la semana pasada es una de mis favoritas. Rita Indiana se estará presentando en Summerstage en Nueva York el 9 de julio.
Rita Indiana es un fenómeno por varias razones y esta entrevista que le hice la semana pasada es una de mis favoritas. Rita Indiana se estará presentando en Summerstage en Nueva York el 9 de julio.
The amazing thing about “Día,” a photographic exhibition recently shown in the arty Brooklyn neighborhood known as DUMBO, is how it records the birth of the Nuyorican.
There we were, watching the situation room, where the inner circle of the United States’ executive branch and military command was watching the virtual assassination of someone deemed eligible for assassination because he is technically not a leader of a […]
I met Robi around ’94-’95 at the Mayflower Hotel near Columbus Circle; he was working with a prolific manager of Mexican rock bands who were also staying there, but he was a man apart.
Entre los de la Isla y los del Barrio; los de aquí y los de allá. Ed Morales nos habla de «la nación imaginaria», los Nuyoricans, Americans, del charco que cruzamos a menudo y de cómo no podemos reducir la isla a sentimientos.
In a conversation I had with Del Toro in 1998, while promoting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he assured me that HunterThompson, would call him and say things like “You’re one of those New Age actors with a Rio Piedras mentality.”
Like it or not, the internet revolution has set off a storm of analysis that seems to pit younger against older generaciones to debate the merits of inherently narcissistic capitalist tools like Facebook and Twitter as political organizers.
I think I first became aware of this millennial fever when a Manhattan cab driver who dodged the Vietnam War draft waxed poetic about how Zbignew Bresinski started the muhajadeen during the Jimmy Carter administration to get the godless Russians out of Afghanistan.
Las combinaciones que hace el gobierno actual entre aliados y amiguetes de la derecha ya no sorprenden. Acá un discurso para salvar empleos, pero entre ellos hablan claro de una agenda al servicio de los grandes intereses.
The Wikileaks phenomenon is remarkable because it seems to overtake whatever passes for “the discourse” (el discurso) and explodes from within any notion of a temporal news cycle, illuminating a hidden speech that we have always known exists, but could […]
Si quieres estar a salvo (alive) en Nueva York hay que pensar en la música de Viento de Agua… «is the Placita in all of us, the place you get la fruta madura».
When The New York Times runs a story with the headline “Report Shows Plight of Puerto Rican Youth,” nuestra comunidad nuyorriqueña reacciona…first recognition, then nostalgia, y por último a kind of angry resignation.
Saludos desde Nuyorico, la capital de la diáspora puertorriqueña, donde vivimos la crisis de la globalización en plena calle. The unforgiving streets where el ataque contra lo que planteamos como “la comunidad”, continúa. Exhibit A: September 25th’s cover story of the Daily […]