Anthony Bourdain RIP.
By Tomás Rueda @tomasruedacocinero. Photo: Tomás Rueda (archive). Editor's note: Tomás Rueda, a friend of the house, is a great chef from Bogotá and a partner in some of the best restaurants in the Colombian capital. We've known him for quite some time, more than 25 years...
Digital Destinations: Whiskey and Music Special (for drinking)
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio dedicated to our friends Daniel Aguilar and Santiago Rivas, happy drinkers of uisge beatha Editor's note: This special (whose content we promise will be somewhat chaotic) was born out of...
The world behind the wheel, April 19, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante The first wave of major festivals across the continent has passed. A short break is coming, during which the most important dates will be in theaters and auditoriums, featuring bands presenting their new...
The world behind the wheel, April 12, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Speaking of Holy Week, Bogotá, during these holidays, until a couple of decades ago, was a hell of boredom. Holy Thursday and Good Friday were days of tedium and forced reflection for those who stayed behind...
The world behind the wheel, April 06/2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Sometimes it takes a whole village for a concert to happen, just one concert. Of course, you need the musicians who will take the stage to perform the songs, but you also need their support crew...
Cerati/Melero, 30 years without losing relevance
By José Gandour @gandour I'm a hypocrite. I loudly proclaim that I despise nostalgia, but then, to easily revive my heart, I put on one of the five albums I'd take to a desert island, each with a story spanning more than twenty years. In...
The world behind the wheel, March 30, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante We've talked about this before, but the truth is, the nostalgia lingers. Bogotá, the city where our publishing house is based, needs its walls covered in posters advertising music. Of course, the inevitable will come up...
The world behind the wheel, March 23, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante A simple recommendation at this point in time, given everything that's happened recently: Live life, enjoy the music, go to concerts and parties, and don't feel too old to have a good time. If you live in a capital city...
The world behind the wheel, March 15, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Do you remember the first time you went to a concert? The first time you were going to enjoy live music? Arriving at the venue, the line, the glances exchanged between friends trying to guess who would get closest to the stage, the...
One from the end of the world (Recovery of an apocalyptic text)
By José Gandour @gandour Editor's Note: I'm not a fatalist, but I love writing about how I imagine hell, the apocalypse, and, on a smaller scale, my own funeral. All the stories, at their core, have a common element, which can serve as a relief, or, at the very least...
The world behind the wheel, March 07/2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante And yes, we watched, like many onlookers, the entire eight minutes. We fell for the act of watching what in some regions of Colombia is called a fight "between a tiger and a tethered donkey." Or, as a sophisticated singer put it...
The world behind the wheel, February 28, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Let's keep talking about music while we can. It's not about denying reality, but about facing it, and it's better to do so with the best sounds in our ears and dance as a ceremony of resistance. Let's pray for peace...
The world behind the wheel, February 22, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante. They usually take place on Saturdays, starting early in the morning. Sometimes they're held in unexpected places: half-painted warehouses, alternative theaters whose walls advertise Sunday puppet and clown shows, courtyards...
The world behind the wheel, February 15, 2022
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante We must replace indignation, such a simple yet futile reaction to disappointing events, with an effective response—one that seeks change, one that heals our sorrow. We cannot...
Spies from the Independence era
By Pablo Taricco – @tariccopablo. (Editor's note: We continue recovering fantastic chronicles from the archives of our brothers at NTD.la, and this time we'll talk about the strategies of our national heroes as they sought to achieve their goals in the face of...
