[Podcast] G5 Summit Mexico

[Podcast] G5 Summit Mexico

by | Apr 23, 2009 | English, Podcast (English)

Even something like that, just the sun setting behind a hill, that’s something you never see in the city. – Revaz The Western side of the DF-to-Queretaro highway fell in perfect gradient from a light blue overhead into a deep magenta, and then ended...

The Hip-Hop Aesthetic

by | Mar 2, 2009 | English, Podcast (English)

I’m getting ready to write my review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Beautiful Struggle. In the same way that Kwame Dawes describes his style of writing as having a “reggae aesthetic”, it’s clear that Coates is trying to craft a hip-hop...
Global Voices House Party

Global Voices House Party

by | Feb 10, 2009 | English, Podcast (English)

There are many ways to get know another culture. My favorite? The house party. Even the seemingly most conservative of cultures transform into festive affairs of dance, drink, and drums when a house party is declared. There is something irresistibly human about...
[Podcast] Second Annual G5 Summit

[Podcast] Second Annual G5 Summit

by | Oct 21, 2008 | English, Podcast (English)

The second annual G5 Summit came and went in a blink of an eye. And by blink of an eye I mean a hangover the size of the Bronx. Fortunately the vast majority of photos have been filtered behind a wall of mutual assured G5 destruction. Although … there are rumors...