I’m adding the MAP to my list of museums you can see under an hour and not want to kill yourself. There are four rooms, Art and the Sacred, The Essence of Art, Art in the everyday, and the...
A Synagogue Hidden in the Crowd
From the outside it is a building like any other in Mexico City’s historic center – colonial façade and wrought-iron railings curling around the windows. Across the street is the Loredo Park, named for the Catholic church at...
The Templo Mayor is not as Lame as you Think
Or at least as lame as I thought. In general ruins are just that — ruins. they don’t hold any kind of real draw after you see four or five or six of “most important pre-Colombian archeological sites in...
Street walking in the Merced
La Merced is traditionally known for two things: the market and the prostitutes. But in this neighborhood, one of the city’s oldest, there is a pedestrian walkway where office workers come to eat lunch or take naps under the...
Meeting Monsiváis among the shelves
“We call this the ‘alley of intimacy’,” says Ruben León, the librarian at the Carlos Monsiváis library in the Cuidadela, “because on one side is Monsiváis’ hidden secret and the other his public passion.” And there we stand in...
Mexico City’s Deadly Ride
I had no peripheral vision with my cat mask on. NOT a good idea when you’re riding a bike, balancing your camera for the perfect motion shot and surrounded by hundreds of people. For some, the idea of thousands...