Mathienzo cup (Image courtesy Mathienzo)

Drink It In — Traditional Argentine Yerba Mate from Mathienzo

Elleyne Aldine 209 0

It all started in 2011 with a silicone Mate cup. Industrial designers Mercedes Buey Fernandez, age 33 and Nicolás Tiferes, age 37, met in college and wanted to set up their own industrial design studio. They first had to show […]

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Bella's Front Porch - Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bella’s Front Porch — New Orleans, Louisiana: A Rich Melting Pot City With A Diverse History And More

Paulette Bethel, PhD 286 0

So much more than Beignets and Bourbon Street, New Orleans is a multinational, multicultural hub in the United States. Called “the northernmost Caribbean city,” by some — Mardi Gras and crawfish may make it iconic, but as our newest columnist […]

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Sol and Liz Ocampo with three of their four kids (Photo courtesy the Ocampo family)

Beautifully Arranged: Sol and Liz Ocampo — This Kenyan-Filipino Family is Steeped in a Love That Began as Strangers in Marriage (Part 2 of 2)

John Liang 624 0

In part 1 of this interview with Solomon and Liz Ocampo, the couple talked about how the first met and went through an arranged marriage. In this part, they talk about Liz’s pregnancies and raising four cross-cultural kids. “My first […]

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Solomon and Liz Ocampo and their arranged marriage

Beautifully Arranged: Sol and Liz Ocampo — A Family Steeped in a Love That Began as Strangers in Marriage (Part 1 of 2)

John Liang 474 0

Christian pastors Solomon (“Sol”) and Liz Ocampo have taken a unique path to love. They didn’t meet and fall in love and then get married — on the contrary, it was an arranged wedding. Both of their sets of parents […]

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Culturs Editor-in-Chief Doni Aldine in Machu Picchu, Peru (Photo credit: Choju Itosu)

Peru — Destinations With Doni

Elleyne Aldine 113 0

Culturs Magazine visited Peru as part of our five-year print anniversary “Live in Full Color World Tour: 5 continents over 5 months.” The Republic of Peru in western South America is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, inthe […]

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Peru graphic by Diana Vega

Asian Legacy in Peru

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Whatever you think Peru is, I assure you, it is far from what you expect. It’s a country that celebrates the diversity not only of its fauna and geography but also its traditions and different migrant groups for the past […]

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Tatya Bird and His Silent Sound in Nature's Flow

Must Listen: Tatya Bird and His Silent Sound in Nature’s Flow

Elleyne Aldine 268 0

His name is Tayta Bird. He does a style of music under a genre he created called “futuristic folklore.” Bird takes traditional Peruvian instruments and mixes them into electronic music. He considers himself from Apúrimac, Peru from a town called […]

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Buenos Aires, Argentina has gone to the dogs

Dogs of South America

Elleyne Aldine 319 0

In the Americas, apparently, we love our dogs. The United States of America is the No. 1 canine-loving country. It appears to be “a haven for man’s best friends, with the country’s dog population standing astonishingly high at 75.8 million,” […]

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