Category: culture
Jumex Collection owner says architectural choice not `malinchismo'
It’s not “malinchismo”, no way. I’ve always believed that the internationalization of projects can benefit and nourish the vision of many people in the country where the projects originate as well those who receive the works from abroad.
How Cafe Tacuba sprained my ankle
This is probably the least exciting location from which I have filed a dispatch. My sofa, in my third-floor apartment, my snowball-like foot propped up on a couple of cushions as I look out onto the cloudy Mexico City panorama this morning. What happened? Well, it’s all Cafe Tacuba’s fault really. I interviewed two of [...]
Video: Gallery takes graffiti off the streets
“Cavemen Did It First” is the first permanent art space in the city dedicated exclusively to graffiti.
First Stop in the New World: Taxi Ride
This is the final in our series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]
BorderReporter: God's Gonna Cut You Down
What happened here last week was a sheer massacre.
First Stop in the New World: the Reality of Crime
This week MexicoReporter.com is publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]
Coleccion Jumex moves closer to Mexico City action
La Coleccion Jumex, one of the largest private collections of contemporary art open to the public in Latin America, is planning to move from its location on the outskirts of Mexico City closer to the action in the capital’s center.
First Stop in the New World: Street Children in Mexico City
Her face is oval and nut-colored, with the enormous eyes of a gazelle. Montse’s expression is serious, cautious, pensative.
Preview the Mexican movies hitting Los Angeles in Hola Mexico festival
L.A. audiences would seem to need no introduction to Mexican cinema.
First Stop in the New World: Where the Money is, and Isn’t
This week MexicoReporter.com is publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]
Fiction series on Mara Salvatrucha wins Webby Award
“The Ten Commandments of la Vida Loca, ” received the Webby Award for best drama series during a weekend ceremony in New York.
First Stop in the New World: dollar-a-dance hostess
This week MexicoReporter.com will be publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World.”
Video: American design duo launches arts and culture mag in Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s culture, arts and music scene is the focus of a new magazine launched by two American designers living in the country’s capital, Managua.
Picture perfect this morning – Chapultepec lake
Clouds reflected in one of the lakes in Chapultepec Park early this morning.
Editorial: The News – what about the writers?
I wanted to add more details to the dispatch I filed today for the Los Angeles Times and MexicoReporter.com on the changes at the News. There were some details that didn’t seem worth including for the LATimes readers, but I wanted to share them with you here.
Mexico English-language daily sold; staff cut by two thirds
Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper The News, based here in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company and laid off dozens of staffers over the weekend.
Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza
Visits to some of Mexico City’s museums have fallen by as much as 90% since the outbreak of the H1N1 virus last month that prompted a near shutdown of numerous facilities
Schweppes pulls ad campaign after flu crack falls flat
Controversial ad campaigns about Mexico seem to keep popping up.
Mexico City writer inspires Saldamando in California
Artist Shizu Saldamando was inspired by Mexico City-based writer Daniel Hernandez.
Cartoon pokes fun at Subcom Marcos' mask
The Mexican newspaper La Jornada today takes a poke at the jungle-dwelling rebel leader in the context of a nation trying to returning to normal after a H1N1, or swine flu, outbreak.
Film chronicles woman's search for identity after Mexico's 'dirty war'
This week saw the cinema premiere here in Mexico of a film documenting the real-life story of Aleida Gallangos Vargas, the child of political activists who disappeared during the country’s “dirty war.”
Colombian street artist caught on tape
You may remember Colombian street artist Bastardilla from the piece I did on La Plaza a few months back.
Now you can see more of the mystery girl.
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