Volume III, Issue 1

Horoscopes for Barflies – November / December 2008

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Aries: (March 21 – April 19) You are the ram. Solitary. Stoic. Arrogant. Useless. Your great skill, bashing your head against hard things, makes you look silly. Everyone makes fun of you.

Taurus: (April 20 – May 20) Conditions are perfect today to kick back and relax with family and all those… full story HERE »

W.T.F? November / December 2008

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Missionary Position:

Richard Anthony Smith, 25 years old and completely bonkers, was discovered dangling by a rope inside the main air conditioning duct of the Knoxville Museum of Art by local police, said department spokesman, Darrell DeBusk. Police received a phone call from Mr. Smith once he became trapped in the… full story HERE »

Letter from the Editors – November / December 2008

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Merry Something-or-Other and a Happy God-Knows – What from the editors, publishers, writers, artists, alcoholics and enablers of La Cuadra. You might not be in the holiday spirit just yet, but as our next issue won’t be hitting the streets until early January, we figured we’d “Kringle it Up” with this edition. Of course, we’re… full story HERE »

Sustainable Business Review – Urban Reclamation

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Over the past few years, as the planet has fallen further into the shitpile, La Cuadra has featured the good works of many not for profit, non-governmental organizations which struggle to humanize our host country, make life better for the poorest and most at risk Guatemalans, and foster development in Central America. While we remain… full story HERE »

Hippie Shortage Threatens San Pedro

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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International Hippie experts are at odds over the causes, but all agree that the once thriving Hippie population of San Pedro de Atitlán is in serious decline.

Bernard Simpkins of the International Hippie Observational Consortium (IHOC) stated at a recent press conference that, “…unless radical steps are taken to support the San Pedro Hippie, this once… full story HERE »

From the Recesses – The Parting Glass

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Sit on the deck chair of this club that otherwise wouldn’t let me in to park cars, much less as a member, and gaze inside with booze-frosted eyes, as if beholding a crux moment of a film shot by Haskell Wexler. Late summer cool cascades off the inlet on northern Long Island, rectangular lights of… full story HERE »

Special Commentary – Bolivia, the Defeat of the Right

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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In the amazing series of elections in South America in the last five years, the most radical results were in Bolivia, with the election of Evo Morales as President. It is not because Morales stood on the most radical platform. It was rather that, in this country in which the majority of the population are… full story HERE »

Special Commentary – Collateral Damage and Damaged Collateral

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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TITS UP! The Global Financial Markets. Tits up, tits up, tits up! The Pseudo Free Market-All-OnCredit-Capitalist Charade. TITS UP! Gnashing, Insatiable Metastasis of Consumer Madness. TITS UP! Not to belabor the point, but TITS UP! This is how it is. Take your choice. Tits Up, or the less prosaic, Dick in the Dirt. Not normal… full story HERE »

The Surly Bartender – Where are the Crazies?

By on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Our Kind of Santa

Dear Santa, I only want one thing for Christmas this year, but it’s really important. I need a new Savior. I’m not complaining about the old savior. He’s cool, but his story has been totally co-opted over the past few thousand years by the starched and polished set, and…well… that’s just not my bag. I… full story HERE »

Featured Artist – Lucia Moran

By on Monday, November 17th, 2008
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In a recent interview, Lucía Morán Giracca opened up about some of her latest work. She said that recently she has been strongly drawn towards examining couples by exploring the nature of partnership. The paintings are, she said, “visual metaphors on the relation between two people and their environment.” Through these images, she investigates the… full story HERE »

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