by Eileen | Oct 18, 2017 | art, chile, gallery, santiago, Uncategorized
At any event in Chile, you are sure to find people selling something. Some of these people live mainly outside of the formal economy, selling different things at events and wherever crowds are likely to gather. Others are supplementing what they make at their regular...
by Eileen | Apr 9, 2013 | art, chile, photography, santiago
This is a building I had/have an unnatural affection for. This photo is from a couple of years ago, it had since been vacated (and the restaurant inside, named for the street it is on, moved, strangely, across the street to the street Farnor Velasco). What you see...
by Eileen | Mar 31, 2013 | art, chile, santiago
Judging by recent hits on the blog, there is a gringo who has been bitten by a dog in Santiago, people still really like bagels, and everyone wants to know what people wear in Suriname (really?). But also, people want to know what’s happening here. And hell if I...
by Eileen | Aug 27, 2012 | art, chile, santiago, travel
For reasons I’ll divulge sometime, but not now, I’ve recently been thinking a lot about places tourists don’t go, but should, in Santiago. Should in the sense that they’d see a part of Santiago that’s not packaged and presented and...
by Eileen | Jul 6, 2012 | art, chile, shopping, travel
Pomaire is a town nearby Santiago, that most long-term Santiaguinos have either been to willingly, or dragged to by some tchotchke-loving aunt, or in-search-of-a-giant-empanada nephew. Even I’ve been several times already. It’s a town that makes its living...
by Eileen | Jun 21, 2012 | art, chile, food, haha
Illustration: Manuela Montero, used with permission. It is impossible not to notice many differences between there and here. In my case, there is the United States, and here is Chile. More specifically, I’m going to compare San Francisco and Santiago, and our...
