by Kemila Velan I’ve been hosting all my web sites on Godaddy.com for the past four years. It’s relatively easy to install all kinds of content management systems, once you know where to find the area inside their impossible to navigate web site. I think it’s a clusterf-ck on purpose...

Get off the beach and come to the Wallflower Gallery, a secret jewel hidden underneath the “Culture Void” (a term coined by K. Lee Sohn) of MIA. Time: 7:00PM Thursday, July 30th Location: The Wallflower Gallery, 10 N.E. 3rd Street Downtown Miami Melanie’s preparation… I’ve...

by Kemila Velan 2.0 Last year, while I was studying marketing with a couple of masters, I started “seeing” in product placement. That means even when I was reading a Christmas story to my niece, I gasped at the Hess truck in one of the illustrations. “You need to double check the books...

They’re all staring at you. They’re all waiting for you to pontificate words of wisdom. They’re all staring at you…wait. I already wrote that. You are a writer, not a public speaker, so how can you get over your nervous tics and deliver your thoughts in such a way that you’re...

Editor’s Note: We were searching around YouTube for writing workshops and writers talking about their craft, and found this interview with Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street. It turns out she isn’t a big fan of one of the most prestigious writing programs in the country....

By Jan Lundberg Posted July 1, 2009 It is true that the Internet has challenged the newspaper business like nothing else. The Internet has also changed social networking and activist organizing. But we must also see beyond the Internet, a system that banks on the notion of unlimited non-renewable resources...