When a friend forwarded this article to me about a woman who started organizing tours of the trailblazing women of Paris, I started to think about my own city and in particular Colonia Roma. This neighborhood has a past...
Tours: Street Art Chilango
You know a place is getting hip, when suddenly a tour of the most rebellious urban art form — street mural and graffiti — is offered up to tourists at 25 bucks a pop. But there is something to appreciate...
Mexico City Day Trips: Teotihuacan
The more I learn about Teotihuacan, the more I find myself impressed by these incredible ruins only 45 minutes outside Mexico City. For several centuries (100AD to 750AD approximately) Teotihuacan is believed to have been Mesoamerica’s economic powerhouse. The...
Mexico City Day Trips: Desierto de los Leones
In Juan Villoro’s short essay “The Metro” about traversing Mexico City he talks about the city’s boundaryland — The Desierto de los Leones National Park — and its peculiar commonality with the hic sunt leones of medieval maps — the...
A Trip to Jamaica Market
On Sunday Javier Escamilla took me on a tour of the Jamaica Market. As we walked he described section by section what the stalls used to look like before the 1985 earthquake and who sells what when, depending on...