This episode of Hybrid Atlanta features Mexican chef Maricela Vega. She talks about decolonized cuisine, sustainable food industries with locally-sourced products, and her entrepreneur experience with her food pop up Chicomecōātl. Maricela is the chef at Atlanta’s 8arm restaurant. Created by Paul Alonso, Hybrid Atlanta is a video interview series with […]
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This episode of Hybrid Atlanta features Nino Augustine, an Atlanta-based rapper and musician from Panama. Nino talks about his multicultural identity and how being exposed to early Panama reggae and Atlanta hip-hop influenced his music. Created by Paul Alonso, Hybrid Atlanta is a video interview series with local artists and creatives […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed the normal life of our city and the world. Music, arts, performance events are cancelled for the foreseeable future. Our artists and entrepreneurs are struggling. The Latinx and other vulnerable communities are wrestling in numerous ways. But it will end. Y resistiremos. Stay at home. Be […]
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This episode of Hybrid Atlanta features Sam Ramírez Herrera from Off Tha Record, an Atlanta based content creation agency by “creatives who give a damn.” Sam talks about owning the narrative, the relations between creativity and entrepreneurship, her dad’s candy store dream, and the growth of Atlanta’s latinx community. Created […]
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This episode of Hybrid Atlanta features Chad Radford, the music editor of Creative Loafing, Atlanta’s iconic alternative publication. In this first part of the interview, he talks about covering Atlanta’s music scene for 20 years and its evolution under the tension of being labeled as a “purely hip-hop town or […]
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This episode of Hybrid Atlanta features Margarita Rios, co-founder of OYE Fest, Atlanta’s cutting-edge Latinx music festival. Highlighting the diversity of Latin American music, OYE is a platform for local and international artists to combine music, arts and activism. Rios is also the creative director of Ni Aquí Ni Allá, […]
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