Update: This article has been modified from its original version to more fully explain the situation that occurred at Merida #90 in the Roma Norte. Every neighborhood changes. People move in and out and back again with shifts in...
Ablution on the go and a circus tent cathedral
In Mexico, anything is possible. Even a drive-up blessing. During my parents’ recent visit, as a curious ex-Catholic is bound to be, my mother wanted to take a field trip to see the Tilma de Juan Diego with its...
Museo de Arte Popular
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...
Noche de Museos at El Chopo
I must once again wax poetic about Noche de Museos here in Mexico City. Like lots of similar programs around the world,it’s a monthly event when museums around the city stay open late, offer free or discounted entry, guided...
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...
Lucha Libre vs. WWF
I think I may have surprised (and frightened) my girlfriend over the weekend with the vast knowledge I have about professional wrestling. After almost six years living in Mexico and a little over a year in Mexico City, last...
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...
My top five afternoon hang-outs in La Roma
1. Río de Janeiro plaza This park in la Roma Norte has lots more to offer than just staring at David’s exquisitely sculpted derrière. On sunny days the plaza sparkles with light and on gloomy ones is one of...
A few pints with Mujeres Catadores de Mexico
A bunch of chicks hanging out, drinking beer, who doesn’t love that? I for one was stoked to meet up with the girls from Mujeres Catadores de Mexico last Saturday for a little beer-making and some delicious brew. 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...