Colombia’s most beautiful city reveals itself as a meat-lover’s paradise.

On a walking tour of Bogota, a veteran guide and painter named Mauricio transforms an amorphous, impenetrable city into a canvas for Colombian dreams.

Leyla McCalla is building her music by fusing everything from Haitian folk music to New Orleans jazz to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Read more from my interview with her here.

No manager? No label? No benefactor? No problem. Read about how the New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny is taking old time music to the masses.

A cross country odyssey with my old friend Dan Harris, taking in all that’s weird and wonderful about the American road.

Remembering Sam Shepard through the words of Patti Smith, and thinking about the mark my friends and I will make on the world. With a link to Smith’s extraordinary farewell to her friend.

A new piece on The Stories series at Medium about being far from New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day.

Dom Flemons is charting a daring path through America’s musical landscape. I interviewed him for Waxwing Literary Journal. Read all about it here.