José Simián
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Everything I Know About New York I Learned from Watching ‘Mad Men’
[Published on Qué Pasa, on September 17, 2010] EN EL PRINCIPIO ERA DON DRAPER, y Don Draper estaba en Nueva York, y Don Draper era Nueva York. Porque eso en que pensamos cuando pensamos en Nueva York —la ciudad de las luces y el ruido, el mito de Nueva York— está tejido con historias como…
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Mimi Maura: Familiar Sounds
Midnerley Acevedo, a.k.a. Mimi Maura, and her husband Sergio Rotman, saxophone player for Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, form one of the most powerful music duos in Latin American pop music — one with the potential of bringin together the traditions of the Caribbean and Argentinean rock with an ease that only a real-life couple can achieve.…
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León Gieco: “I can’t expect to work for change and see it happen”
Legendary Argentinean singer-songwriter came to Contraportada to play a fragment of his classic “La colina de la vida,” and talk about his four decades of singing for justice, hope and change.
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Is Miami the capital of Latin America?
An interview with Argentinean writer Hernán Iglesias Illa, author of Miami.
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Los Tres in New York: A Radiograph of Chile
[Published on Qué Pasa under the unrequested pseudonym of José Miguel Simián] Click on the picture to enlarge
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Moona Luna: Songs for Raising Bilingual Kids
To watch Sandra Velásquez, of Alt-Lat band Pistolera, talking about Moona Luna, her bilingual band for kids, click on the photo below. To listen to their music, click here.
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The Tectonic Plates of Hispanic New York
Columbia professor Claudio Iván Remeseira recently published Hispanic New York, an impressive anthology of academic papers that try to define what it means to be Latino in New York City (a place formed by the “tectonic plates” of different Latino communities), and the role the city has had for Hispanic culture everywhere. In this interview for…
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Jorge Ramos and the Promise of America
Univisión’s anchor and reporter Jorge Ramos came to Contraportada to talk about his book A Country for All (Tierra de todos). In this extended version of the interview, Ramos explains how he balances his role as activist for immigration reform with being a fair and neutral anchor; why he thinks that the Declaration of Independence contains…
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Susana Baca: “I had to kick open the doors to success”
[Published on Pie Derecho, July 2010. Click to enlarge.]
José Manuel Simián 