Christiaan Mader

Christiaan Mader founded The Current in 2018, reviving the brand from a short-lived culture magazine he created for Lafayette publisher INDMedia. An award-winning investigative and culture journalist, Christiaan’s work as a writer and reporter has appeared in The New York Times, Vice, Offbeat, Gambit, and The Advocate.

News + Notes

April 4, 2018

Lafayette General Health warns that it will stop running UHC unless the Legislature fully restores funding to the hospital

The Current Explorer

An abandoned building across the river from a muddy shore

April 4, 2018

Lafayette has a river. Why no river walk?

Lafayette doesn’t have a riverwalk like San Antonio or Chattanooga, or lots of other cities for that matter. Why, exactly, is that the case?

News + Notes

July 3, 2017

Unpacked

What the self-storage boom says about us and the things we won’t let go.

Community

June 21, 2017

Finding Magic In Kolkata

Author Shome Dasgupta’s latest collection of short stories hearkens to the slum-world surrealism of Gabriel García Márquez. Kolkata is Dasgupta’s Columbia.

Community

June 1, 2017