HOY’s Family Service & Fun trip – the Habanera family (0)
8/09/10 •
The all-day, everyday, rainy, unusually cold month of July came to an end with the start of HOY’s new family themed participatory trip. The Habanera family, a family of four from British Columbia, Canada has thankfully brought, along with their enthusiastic attitudes, some sunshine. Habanera is the name invented by one of the family members [...]
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A forest in the middle of Mexico City (0)
8/05/10 •
For a (long) while now, I’ve been wanting to write a little about the Bosque de Tlalpan, or translated, the Forest of Tlalpan. We have written a couple of times now about this beautiful place, which originated from the eruption of the Xitle volcano in Ajusco, in the pages of eldefe.com. The Bosque de Tlalpan is located [...]
Census of US Language Use (0)
4/28/10 •
The US Census Bureau this month released the 2007 study of Languages spoken in the US. Contrary to Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin, the US has grown even more diverse than in the past. These are the conclusions from the press release released by the census bureau at the same time. You can just see [...]
7 Artists on “El Zócalo” (0)
3/31/10 •
All of the blogs we read to put together eldefe.com covered this exhibit at the Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico. Here’s Ciudadanos en Red. Esencia y Espacio is here. Espacio Blanco did a nice write up here. Arquine did a cut and paste post here, as did Segunda Creación aqui. Dfinitivo made it seem [...]
Mexico City’s Extreme West (0)
3/27/10 •
Is it ArtNaco or a Diversity of Ugly? Translated from the Original on Eldefe.com by Isaac Vazquez. Photos are by the author. Click any photo to enlarge. This is the second post in the series. The first appears here. In the first post we went through some of the main roads coming from the west [...]
The Lecheria – La Venta Highway (1)
3/22/10 •
Picture this: a mountainous area dotted with trees and fields. In the distance, the gleam of a lake hidden between hills, and further afield, some houses on top of the next hill still further away. To the east is a huge city laid out in an enormous valley. And if are lucky, far off in the distance, on a clear day you’ll catch a glimpse of a couple of gentle volcanoes. Idyllic landscape?
An Evening in Roma (0)
3/20/10 •
No, not Roma-Norte. Roma-Detergente! There is a part in Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London” where the author is literally scraping grease off the dishes with bits of newspaper – the Paris water is too hard. I am reading that book with a bunch of my English students in Mexico City – because [...]
Introducing Milpa Alta (0)
3/19/10 •
Geologically the youngest delegation in Mexico City, Milpa Alta is also one of the city’s greatest escapes. We’re almost finished with our colonia’s mapping project. Milpa Alta has been one of the quickest because the delegation is only inhabited by a select population. Some of the wildest country, volcanoes and river systems make up a [...]
Money Quotes from the Meltdown (0)
3/15/10 •
Because it’s fun conflating things said about the Wall Street mess with the War on Drugs. If the broken incentive system were fixed, Wall Street big shots could suddenly be able to “see” the destructive effects of fraudulent and risky behavior. That would take politicians getting out of bed with Wall Street for a couple [...]
Enjoying nature in Mexico City’s Ajusco (1)
3/08/10 •
If you’ve ever flown into Mexico City and stared out the windows as the plane comes in, you were probably amazed at what seems to be a city that goes on forever. There are buildings as far as the eye can see and more than a few skyscrapers thrown in for good measure. As we [...]
Argument #2 for formalizing Mexico’s Street Vendors (0)
3/06/10 •
Locally spent money works better than global corporations would have you believe. I’m becoming a raging activist, but check out this post at Small Mart (which I found via Corrente). My last argument was for increased tax revenue, here, but come on, this is so simple even an economics ignoramus like myself can see it. [...]
Preview Photos of Magdalena Contreras (0)
3/06/10 •
Fortunately, the Delegation Magdalena Contreras is one that I actually know – at least a little bit better than a lot of others in the south. Tlalpan, Milpa Alta and Tlahuac seem farther away than Morelos. But old Magdalena somehow seems like she is still in the thick of Mexico City. We finished up our [...]
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