José Simián
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I♥BK
[Published on Qué Pasa on April 9, 2010] SI LOS RASCACIELOS, los teatros y los parques de Manhattan son la cara de Nueva York, Brooklyn es su corazón. El más poblado de los cinco condados que conforman la ciudad (sus dos millones y medio de habitantes lo harían la cuarta urbe con más habitantes de Estados…
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On the Cuban Blogger Movement
The April issue of Latina is out, including my first collaboration for the publication, an article on the surprising Cuban blogosphere that goes beyond its more famous figure, Yoani Sánchez. [The article is only in the print version as of now.]
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Grupo Folklórico does Arsenio
Many Latin music acts that have been around for a while carry the tag of “legendary” in their press releases. But few of them have surprised as much as Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorquino did a few years ago, when they reunited to play a few concerts 30 years after releasing their second album. This…
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Pepe Ribas and Ajoblanco
Some interviews are simultaneously a pleasure and a lesson for the reporter. Here is one such case: a conversation with Pepe Ribas, the founder of legendary counterculture Spanish magazine Ajoblanco. Watch here.
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The Debt of Rafael Gumucio
I have admired the wit and writing chops of Rafael Gumucio since I first read his columns and short stories in Chilean newspaper El Mercurio somewehere in the early nineties. Everything he touched was immediately impregnated with self-deprecation, melancholy and a strange sense of humor. When his first book, a collection of stories, was widely…
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After the Earthquake
At 3:34 a.m. on Saturday, February 27, when the fifth-strongest earthquake ever recorded hit a large area of Chile, I was sleeping with my wife in a hostel of Pucón, a beautiful town in the Lake District of the country. Even when Pucón didn’t receive the strongest impact of the earthquake and we suffered no…
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New Blog: Tinta Idiota
Just as if I had unlimited free time on my hands instead of none, I have decided to start a new blog on media. Tinta Idiota is a blog in Spanish about the digital revolution and journalists I admire and loath. Why “idiot ink”? Because, paraphrasing Hölderlin, we are geniuses when we think, but idiots when we write.…
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Pie Derecho and the Mutant Latino
My friend Norberto Bogard, editor of monthly Latino-culture-in-NY magazine Pie Derecho, came to NY1 Noticias’ Pura Política to talk with Angelo Falcón (another person I admire in the Latino politics/media scene of New York) to discuss the state of Hispanic affairs and national politics. Norberto —with whom I collaborate in Pie Derecho— had the kindness…
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Los Crema Paraíso
Interview with José Luis Pardo (Los Amigos Invisibles) and Neil Ochoa (Sí Sé), members of trio Los Crema Paraíso. The trio recently released “El debut,” an album that mixes Venezuelan music with funk, psychedelia and whatever suits their member’s impeccable taste. Watch here.
José Manuel Simián 