If you’re anywhere near Vallarta don’t miss a chance to see Leslie Jordan, Emmy-Award Winning Actor & Star of Will and Grade, Sordid Lives and the Help. A Leslie Jordan warm-up party is planned at Casa Cupula on Friday, Feb. 15 at 8:00 p.m. just prior to the 10pm opening night performance. … [Read more...]
Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico
February 7, 2013 by
Haciendas: Spanish Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico by Linda Leigh Paul , Author & Ricardo Vidargas, Photographer Haciendas is a noteworthy book portraying traditional and modern hacienda architecture of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. The book features 250 fabulous photos … [Read more...]
Chocolate, Maize and Precious Feathers – Art Institute Chicago
January 25, 2013 by
"Chocolate, Maize, and Precious Feathers: Cacaxtla at the Crossroads of Mesoamerica" February 28, 6:00 PM Art Institute of Chicago Lecture by Claudia Brittenham Fullerton Hall 111 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois ************ This is just one of the Chicago Archaeology & Midwest … [Read more...]
Ancient Chocolate Traces Found in Utah
January 23, 2013 by
Check this out! I just got this info from Michael Ruggeri "Ancient bowls found at a Utah village, "Site 13," near Canyonlands National Park in Utah have traces of chocolate. The bowls are 1,200 years old. This is the earliest trace of chocolate ever found in North America so far. The study was … [Read more...]
Guanajuato, Tierra de Mis Amores By Candace George Thompson, Author
January 9, 2013 by
Forty-nine years ago this month, I arrived in Guanajuato after a five hour bus ride from Mexico City. I was a few days shy of my 19th birthday, a college student about to start an adventure that would change my life. Over the next three months I lived with an all-female, two-generation Mexican … [Read more...]
Pozos: Life Among the Ruins by JOHN SCHERBER, Author, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
November 5, 2012 by
Pozos: Life Among the Ruins Driving up the long rise into Mineral de Pozos, framed by the gray-brown humpbacked mountains once laced with veins of silver and gold, the visitor first sees the stone walls of the cemetery, the panteon, before he enters the town. It seems like a fitting introduction to … [Read more...]
Heather Hess, Freelance Copywriter, Artist and Photographer
November 4, 2012 by
I am no stranger to butterflies. My home town is Orillia aka Mariposa – the Sunshine Town – the subject of Stephen Leacock’s novel “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, home of Gordon Lightfoot and the Mariposa Folk Festival. I have had a fascination for butterflies my entire life and am saddened to … [Read more...]
Instructions to Butterflies by Monica Rix Paxson
November 4, 2012 by
While sitting and reading on the sun porch, I heard a lacy black and orange butterfly beating its wings against a closed windowpane right next to an open window. I tried to guide it to the opening, but it resisted me and continued to throw itself against the glass, only higher, out of my reach. I … [Read more...]
Wings and Things by Mark Saunders, Author, San Miguel de Allende
November 4, 2012 by
My wife is not what one would call outdoorsy. A New Yorker by birth and inclination, she is, in fact, what the Jack Palance character Curly in the movie City Slickers refers to with a snarl as “city folk.” She believes the whole point of evolution was to get out of caves, stand erect, and make one’s … [Read more...]
Galeria La Manzanilla, La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico
November 2, 2012 by
Galeria La Manzanilla is one of Mexico’s well hidden secrets. The gallery opened its doors in 2003 and since then has been representing a wide variety of expats and regional and nationally known Mexican artists. La Manzanilla, a small fishing village 3 hours south of Puerto Vallarta, 1 hour north … [Read more...]
