Joe Kanzangu

New York

Adventure and Culture Writer at Freelance

Writer at InsideHook

There’s rice at home @insidehook @mensjournal @huckberry

Articles

In Quebec's Chic-Choc Mountains, Wild Winter Adventure Awaits

Mar 26, 2025 | fieldmag.com | Joe Kanzangu

Joe Kanzangu Joe Kanzangu is a certified Level 1 Canadian Association Snowboard Instructor (CASI), home chef, and writer. He's based in New York City and Montreal. Blood permeates under my fingernails. My left pinky and right pointer have gone completely numb. The plum undertones usually on my palm match the light hue of the red wine I’m struggling to hold at my favorite Montreal neighborhood tavern, Bar Henrietta.
Black Loyalists Sailed to Nova Scotia for Freedom. I Traced Their Path to Seek the Truth

Jan 30, 2025 | mensjournal.com | Joe Kanzangu

Writer Joe Kanzangu kayaks through clear waters in Nova Scotia. Sinuhe XavierThe tide is high at a wide sandy point off Martinique Beach in Nova Scotia. The waves are slender and short, my surfboard a sharp single-fin incision. As the cool Atlantic waters glaze my Finisterre wetsuit, I paddle and paddle until my board finally lifts up. I pop up over a wave, feet planted, arms balanced, the wind boosting me to shore just a few seconds before I fall.
This Must be the Place: Third Places And The Art of Logging Off and Hanging Out

Jan 17, 2025 | huckberry.com | Joe Kanzangu
They Sailed to Nova Scotia for Freedom. I Traced Their Path to Find if They Ever Got It

Nov 13, 2024 | mensjournal.com | Joe Kanzangu

The tide is high at a wide sandy point off Martinique Beach in Nova Scotia. The waves are slender and short, my surfboard a sharp single-fin incision. As the cool Atlantic waters glaze my Finisterre wetsuit, I paddle and paddle until my board finally lifts up. I pop up over a wave, feet planted, arms balanced, the wind boosting me to shore just a few seconds before I fall.
This Joyful Canadian Town Is North America’s Favorite Good-Time Getaway

Aug 8, 2024 | mensjournal.com | Joe Kanzangu

Montreal might be the most culturally spirited town in North America right now. Just a few hundred miles from metropolitan “neighbors” like New York City and Toronto—but otherwise what feels like a continent apart—Canada’s island city on the St. Lawrence River is its own richly distinctive harbor for cuisine, art, music, adventure, and virtually nonstop citywide celebrations (it's home to nearly 100 annual festivals) that run the gamut.
The Perfect 3-Day Weekend in Montreal: Mountain Cycling, River Surfing, and Feasting at Every Turn

Aug 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Joe Kanzangu

Montreal might be the most culturally spirited town in North America right now. Just a few hundred miles from metropolitan “neighbors” like New York City and Toronto—but otherwise what feels like a continent apart—Canada’s island city on the St. Lawrence River is its own richly distinctive harbor for cuisine, art, music, adventure, and virtually nonstop citywide celebrations (it's home to nearly 100 annual festivals) that run the gamut.
This Joyful Canadian Town Is North America’s Favorite Good-Time Getaway

Aug 8, 2024 | flipboard.com | Joe Kanzangu

Paris Olympics: Eiffel Tower evacuated after man seen climbing structure hours before closing ceremonyAuthorities have evacuated the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday. The shirtless man was seen scaling the 330-metre tall tower in the afternoon. It’s unclear where he began his ascent, but he was spotted just above the …
Soft Trills: 72 Hours Calgary

Jul 22, 2024 | huckberry.com | Joe Kanzangu
The Words Straight Guys Still Can't Say to Friends: "I Love You"

Apr 14, 2024 | insidehook.com | Joe Kanzangu

During the month of April, we’re publishing a series of interviews, essays, advice columns and reported features about the male friendship crisis in the U.S., a particularly troubling slice of the country’s larger loneliness epidemic. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution, so we’re breaking it down from all angles in The Male Friendship Equation. Over a washed-out, plum-colored pool table, a group of men bid each other farewell. Among their well wishes, “I love you” is frequently exchanged.
How Biking from Brooklyn to Boston Helped Me Find Joy Through Pain

Jan 9, 2024 | fieldmag.com | Joe Kanzangu

Photo courtesy Karlos Jeri Joe Kanzangu Joe Kanzangu is an outdoor-enthusiast, explorer, writer, and actor based in NYC and Denver. The first chapter of a new year always brings a need for new goals, ambitions, and pursuits. Though it’s also important to reflect on moments from the previous year that we can learn from—moments make us go whoa. Whoa’s can be positive or negative, filled with peaks or sunken valleys. Sometimes both. That’s the beauty, and deserves being remembered.