"Fixer-Upper" Home In Mexico
"Inventory of housing" were words I didn't understand very well - until a friend from the U.S. asked me to find him an inexpensive old "fixer-upper" in this colonial city. He's an environmentalist so I...
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Cities beneath our feet
Poking around an archaeological site that's still being dug out is fun. It was my first experience. Five friends and I had the further pleasure of having it all to ourselves while we were there. Work h...
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My Computer-type Mentality
We were snapping wedding photos in the atrium of the church - that's the big square in front of old Mexican churches where the Indians gathered to hear Mass - when the "next" bride and her wedding part...
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Zoning Laws And Peacocks
Question: Can you hear a peacock's screech over the roar of city buses?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What's a peacock doing in city traffic?
Answer: No zoning laws keep...
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My outdoor secretary
I hadn't realized how much help an escribano might be. An escribano - sometimes called evangelista - is one of those fellows who works at a typewriter under the downtown arches. An...
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Why I Love To Dance Mexican Style
The Mexicans can’t dance my legs off, I’ll tell you that -- oh, well, in the
“barrios” they can, but there the dancing is more like Olympic gymnastics. If you’re just going out in the ...
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Zuno House Is Doubly "Historic" - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
It's an historic house in its own right but was designed to teach Mexican history. So it's doubly "historic."
The person who said modern artists try to hide their meanings was wrong. This house was...
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Wow, What A Dance That Was! Or Que Bailazo!
"The Twenty-Two Music Professors" squared off against "The "Heavy Metal Charros," (Heavy Metal Cowboys) separated only by the four lanes of a major cross street. Batteries of powerful lights turned an ...
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Prodeur - Preserving The Heritage
Visitors - even those who come regularly - will always find something they haven't seen before by taking long strolls in Guadalajara's mansion area. Hungry? That's where the best restaurants are.
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Friends You Make On The Corner
"Ya gotta start working early," five-month old Pita would tell you if she could talk. "Take my brother, Chavita, he started working when he was only one month old." It's true. Two years ago Chavita - n...
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Roustabouts For Hire
It was like following three battleships. The shoppers rolled away like bow waves before the three
"cargadores" who churned toward them with two hundred pounds of produce on each of their hand ca...
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A Response To The Documentary Sicko
Hi, Mike.
Sicko
is great but why did you forget Mexico? Uncle Sam wouldn't be giving you trouble on your return stateside, not like going to Cuba. And the M...
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Guadalajara Street Scene
Right behind Hospicio Cabañas, at the south-east corner of that building, you abruptly run into a rabbit warren of narrow streets, dilapidated
adobe buildings, lots of old cars and poorly dress...
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