I started my map-making class last night and this was my first map… the Centro Medico park where I take my dogs in the morning to walk. @MexCityStreets Catch me on Instagram
A Oaxacan Primer at Guzina Oaxaca
I’m sitting at Guzina Oaxaca, a new restaurant in Polanco with an old friend from San Miguel days. Foodie companion and chef extraordinaire Shaw, has a serious love affair with Oaxacan food and is giving me a list of...
Taller Tlamaxcalli’s Toybox
Toys have no nationality, no origin, according to Álvaro Santillán. Children invented toys. That being said, Álvaro seems to have a beginning, a story, a little detail of origin for every item in the Tlamaxcalli toy workshop. the diversity...
A Very Public Break-up at the MODO
You know how that old saying goes “One man’s break-up is another man’s art.” Well maybe that’s not the exact phrasing but it’s appropriate for the MODO‘s new exhibit, part of a traveling break-up show from Croatia. Officially called...
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 Cult of San Charbel and a Few Other Maronite Fun Facts
“Is that Lebanese?” I think to myself. Because I don’t know Latin that well, but it doesn’t sound like Latin to me, then again my liturgy-recognition skills aren’t what they should be either. I’m sitting at Mass at the...
Bring on the Whiskey: New Space Dedicated to Charles Bukowski
Going to Check out the New Charles Bukowski Culture Space tonight at Insurgentes 226, 8pm. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering...
Mexico City Day Trips: Santa Marina – Down on the Farm
When I show up, Javier Pérez Rocha is nowhere to be found. I hesitantly begin to wander around the ranch looking for him, asking a few of the many workers quietly and busily humming around the place. When I...
Six Mexico City Museums That Won’t Make You Want to Kill Yourself
I’m personally not a big fan of the anthropology museum or really any place where the rooms go on without end. I get irritated and tired and wanting a drink if I wander around a museum for too long...
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...