“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.”
--- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
--- George Orwell
After a four month hiatus, Papel Magazine celebrates its first anniversary online with The Cold One Issue, our winter recap edition. Ninety-two days after 2009’s last bitch fit, a year that could be considered volatile to be underselling; we return with our same mission of providing a platform in which the new voices can be heard.
Going through many bodily revisions in our structure, stemming from neglectful abandonment to foolhardy political suicide, la Cuadrilla returns on 2010 with steadily known and [up]rising names joining our ranks. Make a note; you shouldn’t wound what you can’t kill. The Cold One will focus on topics from a frostily detached perspective, aiming at a pseudo scientific dissection of non-measurable variables.
In Socio [paths], with Love and War, we explore the use of espionage and counterespionage methods in the unraveling open war of egos termed “relationship.” Amor, primera plana en los pensamientos is in the air, or online in any case; a short treaty in the blurring lines between the degrees of love itself. The effect of the film Avatar around the globe is scrutinized in La Tierra Pandora. Also, Uno en cada ciento cincuenta focuses on the lack of appropriate support for the development of children with autism.
Voyeur will take a road trip through the states of the Pacific coastline in the installment series Winter Westernland. First stop: The State of Washington.
Iconoclasta deepens into the life and work of Puerto Rican thespian, Marcos Garay.
Queeritics strikes back with It Ain’t Easy Being a F.H.I.M.P. The article delves into the symbiotic succubic thread between polarized age-ranges in the dating world, and the buffers in between.
William Tells concludes the ongoing series Wordly Power: Family Style with Part Two: The National Prayer Breakfast and its Offshoots.
In ¡SH1C! we theorize around the mind of a confessed killer with [Self]Hate Crime. While in Tecnócrata, the polarized possibilities of Microsoft’s new patents are explored in Microsoft Wants to Build the Lawnmower Man.
Coolisseum comments on the possible absence of Cuba in the XIX Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe with El asterisco deportivo.
And in Oh!CD we explore the pop voyage that is Superaquello in their new production: Latarde. Also, we tune in the parlays of the spirit with Sarox's Sincronizándome.
As always, What’s Up! keeps you posted on the new events coming our way from the different alternative scenery within the Island of Enchantment. Join the revolution, and register in our webpage to get constant updates of the new and improved Papel Magazine.
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We’re back, baby! Just sit back, relax, and have a cold one.
Ilustración por Xavier Pagán