Recap: Good Morning, From Here, April 19 - 25
Monday Oh, my house is quiet now. Bogie and I keep bumping into little pieces of evidence that Patrice was living with us for three weeks, but she is back in Canada and will be reunited with her beloved kitties and...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, April 12 - 18
Monday The Vallarta Botanical Garden is just 20 years old, barely around long enough to raise one good-sized tree, yet it has won every major award possible in our entire continent. Going up against revered Gardens like Butchart's outside of Victoria...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, April 5 - 11
Monday What do peaches, brie, mushrooms, and salted caramel espresso have in common? La Casita & Garden for pizza and martinis! Last Friday, we explored those food groups while awaiting Dabit and Ale to entertain a comfortably full house of...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, March29 - April 04
Monday I finally caught the Burlesque show at Coco Cabaret on what turned out to be their closing night. I had heard it was funny; hilarious is more like it. I also heard it was well done; cleverly brilliant is more...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, March 22 - 28
Monday My dear friend, writer Sandra Bradley, and I, could hardly squeeze into Patricia Gawle's Gallery over the weekend to see new and exciting art exhibits. This large space can barely enclose the explosive energy of a number of painters, sculptors,...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, March 15 - 21
Monday Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all the Irish and Wannabees today; wear something green and, "May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead." And that's mercifully it for my Gaelic!
It was a busy weekend...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, March 08 to 14
Monday The curtain has closed on a wildly successful night at Teatro Vallarta for What a Drag. The show, which features straight men in drag, began 11 years ago in much smaller venues, and has grown to leave only a handful...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, March 01 - 07
Monday One of my favorite days every month is the First Saturday Fiesta at Arte Vallarta Museo. The enormous courtyard was full of people eating, drinking wine, listening to the live jazz trio, and catching up with like-minded people they hadn't...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, February 22 - 28 Monday ART VallARTa on Pilitas was again the center of attention as Jamie Brickhouse presented his one-man show "Dangerous When Wet - Booze, Sex, and My Mother" to a sold-out rapt audience.
Jamie's monologue, nearly 90 minutes of a one-sided conversation,...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, February 15 - 21
Monday In the past ten years, I have been to some epic parties with off-the-chart shenanigans like recreating scenes in a pop-up of Night of the Iguana, complete with a bus, or a dinosaur-sized alebrije jostling dancers for space during a...
