Mission
Macazine is a cultural platform devoted to the stories behind creative work—the early ideas, defining decisions, unexpected setbacks, and unfinished paths that shape what eventually reaches the world. Through intimate conversations and thoughtful recommendations, we document culture as it happens and make creative lives feel more open, human, and possible. Because becoming is just as interesting as arriving.
About Cristina
Macazine began in 2022 on an Amtrak between Washington, D.C. and New York. At the time, founder Cristina Macaya was a student with an insatiable appetite for culture—and a Notes app overflowing with records, films, restaurants, interiors, artists, and ideas she didn’t want to lose.
What began as a personal archive soon became something larger. Cristina realized that what stayed with her was rarely just the finished work. It was the story beneath it: the sketch before the building, the demo before the record, the restaurant that almost never opened.
That curiosity continues to guide Macazine today. Through candid conversations with emerging creative voices, Cristina explores how meaningful work actually takes shape and creates the kind of trusted, lasting source of inspiration she had always been searching for.
