I’ve long maintained that part of Mexico’s essence is eating on the street. This morning I thought I’d join some out-of-towners for a street food extravaganza with a company called Eat Mexico that offers tours in Mexico City and...
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 Bicycle Film Festival
Last night the Galería Prophaeta On Alvaro Obregon in the Roma hosted the art exhibit JoyRide as part of the Mexico City Bicycle Film Festival this weekend. The Bicycle Film Fest has been a global phenomena since 2001. That...
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...
I may have O.D.ed on corn this morning
I don’t even like tamales. My Mexican friends think that makes me prissy. But let’s just set the record straight. I don’t like polenta either or hominy or grits. It’s not that I’m particularly against tamales, just that grainy...