Tatiana García-Altagracia
By Tatiana García-Altagracia
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Culture The Jewish Uruguayan movie we all need to be watching now on Netflix
In Latin America, when the camera flashes, you don’t say “cheese”; you say ‘Whiskey.’” That invented social artifice, which makes it appear in photos as if we are living a moment of “joy” as the mouth creates a smile-like shape, has a lot to do what happens in “Whiskey,” a 2004 film set in the…
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Culture In my life, there were two Bob Dylans — my father’s and mine
The sounds of a big house in the south of Mexico City. A house full of books, albums, paintings, sculptures and dust. This was the place of my dad, a place filled with music, ideas and wonders. My Dominican mother decided to move here after living in D.R, U.S.A and the late USSR; and by…
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