El primer dia de conciertos de SXSW no podia haber sido mejor: pude escuchar varias bandas Colombianas de las cuales sabía muy poco o nada. El evento tuvo lugar en un remodelado Speakeasy y las bandas que tocaron fueron las siguientes:
Verde3
Ratón Pérez
Monareta
Poper
Bomba Estereo
Doctor Krapula
Choc Quib Town
A Verde3 no los vi pues comenzaron a las 7pm [...]
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Every time I come to Medellín it is mandatory for me to eat as many typical dishes as possible and this time it hasn´t been the exception. [...]
Picture by Luis Pérez
A corraleja is a typical celebration from the Colombian coast regions where people gather in a place similar to a bullfight ring and fight several bulls. The difference with a bullfight is that there is no matador in corralejas, but anyone can jump in and fight the bull. And the bull is [...]
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It all started on July 30th at 3:30am when I get this phone call:
Me: “He…mfff…llo…bmgrrr?”
Cab driver: “Hello are you Mr. Jaramillo? I´m the cab driver and I´m waiting for you outside your house”
Me: “Dude! I asked for a cab for July 31st! You came 24 hours too soon!”
Cab driver: “Oh… errr.. crap!… sorry [...]
The president of the colombian political party Polo Democrático Carlos Gaviria was one of the speakers invited to the XXVIII Annual ILASSA Student Conference. His speech was basically a critique of the current government because it claims that Colombia has a strong democracy while he considers that many aspects of Colombia’s situation (like the [...]
This coming February 4th: join us in the mobilization against FARC.
It is really sad to see how the “Colombianos en UT” group have changed the main objective for the mobilization. Here is the text they sent through the “Asociación de Colombianos en Austin”:
Please join us Monday, February 4 2008 10:30 am at South First and [...]
1954, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2005 y 2007!
Nueve estrellas, nueve glorias!
SOY DEL VERDE, SOY FELIZ!
Volver,
con la frente marchita,
las nieves del tiempo
platearon mi sien.
Sentir, que es un soplo la vida,
que veinte años no es nada,
que febril la mirada…
Ok, lets not be drama queens: coming back to MedellÃn after less than one an a half years is not as dramatic as Carlos Gardel´s tango “Volver”. But I felt like singing and [...]