Art in Xela
Slouching towards Jerusalem, paintbrush in hand As the founder of Xela Collective, a local art organization, and co-founder of Festival Quinto Sol, a local art festival, I believe Quetzaltenango has the potential to be...
Category: Arts, Culture & History
Happy 150th Anniversary XelaWho!
Honey, I redesigned the magazine It’s been a long strange trip but XelaWho has defied the odds and is still here after 150 glorious editions, 143,874 puns and 243 strongly worded letters to the...
Popping and Flopping
POPPING Lenin did nothing wrong Popping this month is the late, great Lenín Fernández. He died relatively young, at 59, after an illustrious career drumming for Alux Nahaul — one of Guatemala’s longest-lived, best-known,...
Dr Sabletodo – March
What’s up with Guatemala’s new travel advisory? Dear Dr. Sabelotodo, In January, the U.S. State Department came out with a new travel advisory system in which they gave every country a number from 1...
Xelebrity of the Month – March
Jalapeno Jacobo interviews PacoMax owner Walter How long have you been in the paca business? My whole life. My parents owned a paca and taught me the basics. Then when I was ready to...
Trendy – March
We read Guatemalan Twitter so you don’t have to With the highest number of Facebook users in Central America and a Twitter population growing by the thousands every month, social media can be a...
Merry Xmas Xela!
Bells are ringing, it‘s freezing out, and everyone finished working for the year about 5 weeks ago, so it must be Christmastime in Xela! And as always, the good folks here at XelaWho HQ...
Stuff- XELA WHO’S ULEW?
About a year ago, Xelawho ran a story about the upcoming Utz Ulew mall — a gilded tower we called a “behemoth” and predicted would compete with Walmart for the title of “sparkliest, most...
Popping & Flopping
Popping We´re So Sorry Popping this month is you, our readers— you‘ve survived another year of our bad puns, endless typos, terrible jokes, and crass commentary on life in this strange and wonderful city....
Trendy – December
With the highest number of Facebook users in Central America and a Twitter population growing by the thousands every month, social media can be a great place to find out what‘s buzzing in Guatemala....
