After interviewing COMUNIDAD PO‘s staff on Monday February 13th at his weekly show “Live & Kicking”, I Love Chile Radio and DJ Marcial Diaz took all the gear and expectations to one of the hottest clubs in Bellavista – “Club Chocolate”, to witness and broadcast live one the biggest parties that brings together foreigners and Chileans. We had been told [...]
Join Steve on HOT Chile as he interviews Rodrigo Jordan. The first South American to climb Mt. Everest and an entrepreneur recognized for his vision. Dr. Rodrigo Jordan has applied the leadership and team-building skills needed to climb the world’s most challenging mountains to business and education. His company, Vertical, offers outdoor education, expeditions, and [...]
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On Dec. 26th, 2012, Valeska Pino, a.k.a. “Valeskyta Primavera” on social networks, was interviewed on our radio show “Live & Kicking” on a post-Christmas special. One of her many activities for the ex-pats community in Chile is a popular and crowded English/Spanish exchange meet-up known as SPANGLISH PARTY, currently held at the Indomito Pub in 115 [...]
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Wilt is bald. Wilt is also British. He is drying off under the eye-killing 7 am fluorescent lighting of the English institute cafeteria. We are well into our morning chain-smoking ritual. Mounted in the corner, TVN blares the images from outside – the rain logged Santiago city – rainwater torrents carry all that leafy trash [...]
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I attended my first rock concert when I was 13. On April 1 1984 my dad drove me downtown to Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and stood with me in the lineup outside, behind a guy clinging to the stadium wall with vomit running down the front of his faded jeans and leather jacket. Bits [...]
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In the summer of 1994, for reasons too depressing to mention, I woke up on a piss-stained, cushionless sofa covered in cat hair in an anarchist squat house on Broadway Street in Vancouver. I’d spent previous days playing my guitar on the corner of Granville and Robinson. On this very same corner was a particularly [...]
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