The City Paper’s own Jimmy Weiskopf delivers his most recent literary tale of deception, desire and perils of incomplete imagining.
Get thee to a punnery! might write our Jimmy Weiskopf as he returns with his inspired Shem, the penmark, in a third – and not final – installment.
Words define how we interpret our quotidian realities from a childhood in New York to Amazonian river as Jimmy Weiskopf recalls.
Colombia is a country of acronyms and navigating the health and insurance sectors can be treacherous if you don’t know the difference between a PIN and PSE.
From time among shamans in Colombias’ Amazon, the enigmatic ethnobotanist Terence McKenna unveiled societal truths and prophetic in our age of coronavirus.
The author of Ayahuasca: Weaving Destinies, Jimmy Weiskopf describes quarantine from the small Andean community Choachí, known by the Muisca as their “Balcony of the Moon.”
Author Jimmy Weiskopf breaks the solitude of quarantine with a short story of two timid Buddhist monks heading to a boot camp of meditation in New Hampshire.
Essayist and chronciler of Bogotá streets Jimmy Weiskopf resurges as Shem The Penman with his unique take on historical lore and folklore.
The streets of Bogotá are dotted with historical refrains, plenty of absurdity and graffitied truths. Shem, a minor penman, offers some wit and droll for minds in lockdown.
A short story by The City Paper’s literary contributor Jimmy Weiskopf for these quarantine days.
Bogotá’s Séptima is an obligatory stroll down memory lane, layered by architectural disorder within an urban context.
is the mainstreaming of mambe and other sacred plants and excuse to view the world through the prism of hallucinogens?
Our Bogota? street reporter par excelence travels the open road to Huila and discovers a genuine Colombian experience, tinted with Kerouacian nostalgia.
Jimmy Weiskopf examines the importance of mambe in indigenous cosmogeny in generating dreams both when asleep and awake.
The Parque de la Independencia and environs express the quirky, offbeat street culture of the capital. Take a walk!
The criminalization of an ancestral substance and misuse by those in search of its psychotropic effects affects the livelihoods of Colombia’s Amazonian peoples.