The right place for placeholders

Katie Jacoby furnishes us with all the do-das, whatsits and thingamajigs placeholders we need to forget words like a native Sometimes you just...

Traumas of La Tramacúa

  [caption id="attachment_15544" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Friends and family members demonstrate outside the prison. Photo:...

Tatacoa Desert: Starstruck on lunar dunes

[caption id="attachment_17666" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The Tatacoa Desert near Nieva in the Huila department, an otherworldy place full of...

Video killed the electronic star

[caption id="attachment_15490" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Video Club’s minimal design and superior sound system hope to bring something new...

Seven years of fluff in the city

[caption id="attachment_15486" align="alignright" width="300"] ‘Chris Toboe’ and ‘Dakog’, two furries at the event. Photo: Fayida...

Road to Rio: May

As the Olympic Games, the world’s biggest sporting festival draws ever closer, our monthly column keeps you up to date with the Colombian...

Medellín hosts BMX World Championships

[caption id="attachment_15479" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The WC takes place on the newly built Pista de Mariana Pajón in Medellín. Photo:...

La Guajira: Estimated 14,000 dead from malnutrition

Simon West visits communities in La Guajira and hears tales of corruption, neglect, exploitation and a touch of optimism from people there The...

Maxim Februari & Brigitte Baptiste talk gender

[caption id="attachment_15358" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Maxim Februari. Photo: Chris Rijksen[/caption] We sit in the sumptuous...

No merging al Parque

As the city reverses its controversial decision on the al Parque music events, Azzam Alkadhi looks into the festival fiasco A little over a...