Click here for English translation. Hoy empiezo oficialmente algo que me ha interesado muchísimo durante los últimos tres años: la busqueda de una veradera “poetry slam” mexicana. La idea me occurió por primera vez durante el otoño de 2003 cuando estaba viviendo en Querétaro, México. Antes de irme de Arizona, había estado participando en sesiones[…] See more ⇒

Last night I got the chance to see a great new movie that is set to come out across Mexico on August 25. It’s called “En el Hoyo,” (“In the Pit”), and follows the construction of the largest bridge in the history of Mexico City. Called “El Segundo Piso,” it is a absolutely massive project[…] See more ⇒

1353 1348 With one hour to go before leaving Sierra Vista, the sky filled with the unmistakable darkness of monsoon. All afternoon while running errands I had been watching them dance around the San Pedro valley, a downpour over the Tombstone hills while we burned away under the Arizona sun in the foothills of the[…] See more ⇒

The fourth in my series of articles for The Noise. “It will be the event of the decade…” -consensus among the French on the World Cup final after winning the semi. All the trains are speeding toward Paris this afternoon, bullet trains doubled-up and packed. Faces are already painted in long stripes: blue, white, red.[…] See more ⇒

A packed house at Café Cheri(e) on this lucid and hot Paris summer night. All up and down Boulevard du Belleville most is quiet: cargo trucks covered in graffiti, the Vietnamese, the Thai district. It’s a Tuesday, and like everywhere, slam makes for a packed house even on a weeknight. The place is bathed in[…] See more ⇒

Many people have been asking me about my ideas on what will happen in Cuba after Castro, now that there is an apparent crack in the façade. That was one of the main questions that I had in my mind when I hitchhiked across the island last March. Some things are becoming clearer, many are[…] See more ⇒