New Takes on An Age-old story There have been countless iterations of the story of the birth Jesus Christ since it occurred more than two thousand years ago, I suspect to account for the many logical loose ends in the narrative: An unmarried teenage girl named Mary becomes pregnant by the Holy Spirit and gives …
A visit to a friend in Mexico City led us to discover its collection of Art Deco treasures Last week Stew and I visited a friend in Mexico City who's just starting the renovation of a 1929 Art Deco building, in the Roma Sur neighborhood, a project that's both exciting and intimidating. Restoration or renovation …
Electric vehicles are headed for San Miguel.That surprised the hell out of me.Sometime last week, with as little fanfare as organ cacti popping up in the countryside, six shiny Tesla electric car chargers appeared in the parking lot of the Luciérnaga shopping center in San Miguel, by the Office Depot store. We of course had …
If we may wade into stereotypes for a second, the organization of Saturday's Gay Pride parade in Mexico City was typically gay—that is to say, rather chaotic—and its punctuality typically Mexican—it started a couple of hours late. Next to the big-city Gay Pride parades in the U.S. that over the years have acquired glitz and …
Eight years after moving to Mexico its capital city remains an impenetrable riddle that Stew and I, who are both confirmed fans of big cities, have barely begun to decipher. Mexico City can be as grand as any European capital but also as chaotic and intimidating as any place you'd find deep in the Third …
Tucked behind all the racks of tourist postcards, cities hold a few secrets and surprises unknown or ignored by most visitors. Of the hundreds of thousands who pile into Chicago's Wrigley Field yearly very few will notice Alta Vista Terrace, a one-block-long jewel of a neighborhood with forty quirky houses built in the early 1900s …
When I was growing up in Cuba and later in the United States, attention deficit disorder was no front-page news. I don't think many people had even heard of it and those who had probably weren't paying much attention to the phenomenon anyway.Still, I suspect that I had a touch, or maybe a big dollop, …
Mexico City, known among Mexicans as "D.F." (for "Distrito Federal," a jurisdiction comparable to Washington, D.C.) or just plain "Mexico," is tantalizingly close to San Miguel, promising what Stew calls a "big-city fix.""Angel of Independence" on Paseo de la Reforma.Discounted fares for people over 60 are about 20 dollars round trip in luxury buses with …
El Rancho Santa Clara 