Guides
3 places
Three São Paulo Classics, Three Different Kitchens
Three São Paulo kitchens — Chinese, Isaan Thai, Japanese rodízio — that fall apart the moment you file them under one heading.
4 places
Do Not Disturb #1: What's Actually Below the Room
Three hotels that tell you what's under your bed before you book it, and one that actually delivers the silence the other three sell as a joke.
1 places
Hello, World!
A placeholder from Near's human curator, for now.
1 places
Automate the Alarm, Not the Answer
Automation can keep a guide awake. It cannot supply the part worth reading: a person’s reporting, judgment and vocabulary.
5 places
Ladies&Gentlethem: Fifty Years of Queer Nightlife, On the Record
A photobook putting fifty years of queer nightlife's real history on record, Curaçao's Pride week, and five dance floors Near already knows.
4 places
Two Sitges, Four Hundred Metres Apart
The genre-film festival and the gay strip are the same town, built by the same 19th-century habit of forming societies.
1 places
The Strokes and Gorillaz Headline Primavera Sound São Paulo
Confirmed for 5–6 December 2026 at Interlagos — a genuinely far-out date worth planning a trip around, plus a real place to catch a show locally while you wait.
1 places
Building a web app with AI is TOTAL slot-machine energy ugh
AI credits, microtransactions, and the slot-machine mechanic hiding inside every app that promises 'just one more prompt.'
3 places
The Zombie Listicle Problem
Why so many 'best sober bars' lists recommend places that no longer exist — and what that says about how most content operations, human or AI, actually work.