José Simián
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Yoani Sánchez
The latest issue of FedEx’s Access Review magazine has my interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has irritated the island’s dictatorial regime with her blog Generación Y. Yoani was recently awarded the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize by the Journalism School of Columbia University, but the Cuban government denied her permission to travel to…
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Niño Josele
It is hard to express the satisfaction I get from having brilliant musicians perform when I interview them for NY1 Noticias. In the case of flamenco star Niño Josele, I could barely make a question after watching him play the guitar as if he was walking through an automatic door. A few minutes earlier, ha…
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Obama on Univisión: Lost in Translation
The media tour president Obama did over the weekend to promote his health care reform was widely analyzed by all sorts of English language outlets. Yet, as you may have guessed, none of them covered what happened on Univisión, the “fifth network,” even when Jorge Ramos interview was outstanding. But to realize that, I had to…
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Olivier Conan, Musical Expeditionary
Chicha, cumbia and rock and roll. Oulipo, Perú and Brooklyn. Accidents, Bach and syncretism. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Olivier Conan. Watch here.
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High Line: A Park in the Middle of the Sky
My vignette of Manhattan’s High Line park, for revista Qué Pasa. Read here.
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Babasónicos: “We are a cosmopolitan band”
When the dust settles, Babasónicos will probably be considered one of the fundamental rock bands to come out of Argentina, no small feat if you consider that country —as I do— to have produced the best rock canon after the United States and Great Britain. That’s why when I had the chance to interview two…
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The Island Where Presidents Try to Relax
The new Qué Pasa magazine, a Chilean weekly, has a little column by yours truly on Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where presidents try to feel like just another folk among the powerful. Read here.
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Nereo: “I don’t know how I took that picture”
Colombian-born photographer Nereo has been telling stories through his photographs for 60 years. The New York based artist recently has published his first book outside of his native country, “Images from Half a Century,” which includes images from his photographic essays on the Amazon jungle, Bogotá and his friend Gabriel García Márquez. Interviewed at NY1 Noticias,…
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José Manuel Simián 