La Gran Gira Mundial de Lectura / Méjico. . Today we jump the puddle and finally land on ‘the continent’. First stop, Méjico lindo and our monumental Carlos Fuentes. . 5. *El Naranjo* (Alfaguara, 1993, 260 pp.) — Carlos Fuentes. This beautiful book is a collection of five stories that explore the painful process whereby...Read More

Comenzamos nuestra Gira Literaria partiendo de Puerto Rico, la perla del Caribe. Cuando niño nunca estuve seguro si se trataba de algún indio Caribe en particular que había perdido su perla o se trataba del mar Caribe. Pero aquí vamos. Como representantes de Puerto Rico en nuestra Gira escogí a Magali García Ramis (Las noches...Read More

This coming year I plan to continue my annual reading challenge, a practice I took up at the start of my retirement in 2020. What started as a reading pastime, a casual return to my original life-love with the refound ‘lost times’, has turned into a life focus as we become more aware with each...Read More

I live just up the street from this brewery, and yesterday on the way home I decided to take a short detour and check what may be currently showing at the brewery’s beautiful gallery space. And I was glad I did as I ran into the beautiful exhibit of Kelman’s dozen or so portraits. The...Read More

May 27, 2023 / Banner Art by Juan Ibáñez Blondett // . La Casa Aboy presenta desde el 1 de agosto al 15 de setiembre de 2024, los trabajos en acrílico sobre lienzo y sobre papel de los hermanos Juan y José ‘Pepe’ Ibáñez Blondett. La sustanciosa muestra explora en retrospectiva una pluralidad de estilos,...Read More

(May 11, 2024 / Photo: Jorge Ibanez) Robert Frost famously said that good fences make good neighbors. Which some may think is at the core of good New England Yanki philosophy of life, but with which it seems he did not agree. But, of course, he was picking up much more than boulders in that...Read More

(Yellow Towers, acrylic on canvas by JIbanez) Sometimes I think back on my childhood and I think ‘man, someone has to be making this shit up…’ Back when I was seven (sixty five years ago!), my parents moved us from our little sugar cane town of Canovanas to the capital, part of a huge migration...Read More

WOW! This is such an amazing flight-of-the-spirit book dressed up as a very imaginative and fun sci-fy tour de force. As all good science fiction should be. The book consists of a set of 30 vignettes encased by a prologue and an epilogue and divided in equal parts by three ‘intermissions. The prologue and the...Read More

(February 1, 2024) Banner Art: Jorge Ibanez) Although I have lived in Gainesville, Florida, for over 40 years, I still present myself as a Puerto Rican artist. I work in pastel, watercolor, linocut, photography, and acrylic. Recently I have been working mostly in acrylic and watercolor. I have shown my works in individual and group...Read More

(Photos by JIbanez) When you first enter the Alexander Hanson installation at the Santa Fe College Gallery, you are met by a bench packed with construction tools and materials under the show’s sign ‘Don’t let me screw this up’. It is a play of words with the nature of the installation that is about to...Read More