The City Paper’s own Jimmy Weiskopf delivers his most recent literary tale of deception, desire and perils of incomplete imagining.
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.
Like many cultural events taking place virtually with the lockdown on Sunday, May 3, Banco de la República will tribute the life and works of sociologist Alfredo Molano.
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.
In southwest Colombia, illegal armed groups have killed community leaders of the Nasa indigenous community as they seize control of lucrative drug routes.
is the mainstreaming of mambe and other sacred plants and excuse to view the world through the prism of hallucinogens?
Jimmy Weiskopf examines the importance of mambe in indigenous cosmogeny in generating dreams both when asleep and awake.
Installment of author Jimmy Weiskopf’s portrayal of literary anti-heroes.