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...
by Arlene RubensteinI’ve been told there is a sleeping ladyin the Sierra Madre Mountains.
She lay on her backyou can see the contours of her old faceher hair of dense treesher eyes and mouth of, well,naked rocks I would imagine.
Two equal masses rise upher breasts perhapsI keep looking, eyes peeled, achingat times I think I see herthen, no.
The image seems too far-fetchedafter all, they’re just mountains for God’s sake!I rest my eyesand wait.
Soon, the sinking sun does his magicthe hills are a meld ofwine, licorice, pomegranategolden shadows deceive, deepen, definecrevices outline her mammoth headand slender neckwithin seconds the mountain deliversa masterpiece!can be creepycan be holythe beholder decides.
The sky blackensand I sleep.
There is comfort in knowingthe Sleeping Lady will be aroundfor a very long time.
Stormy New Year's Day on Calle AllendeUsually, a hot and dryuphill climb,well-worn curvy Calle Allende now suffersa daylong deluge
Early shouts of New Year joyabandon her long strong armthat stretches from boardwalk to freeway
Old Senora Rosa emergesfrom her tiny corner storehoping to attractthe little faces that love...
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,...
Second in a series of local heroesby Leslie EggerlingToward the top of our daily walk up to the Grand Miramar, husband Mike made a new friend - a black cat named Pasa. It was not unusual for Mike to befriend cats but this one was different because she did...
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...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, February 08 - 14
Monday Describing Zoe Lewis in concert is the same as writing down exactly how butterflies fly and fish swim and getting the mechanics of it just right. She flits about onstage, landing here and there on a light or heavy piece...
by Leslie EggerlingEveryone has someone they consider a hero. In the many years I have been coming to Puerto Vallarta, I have been amazed by the many wonderful people who work behind the scenes to make Vallarta a better place. This is the story of one of my heroes.
Before...
Recap: Good Morning, From Here, January 31 - February 07
Monday Less than two years ago, Mark Rome, Entertainment Director at The Palm Cabaret, suggested I see Chris Lopez's Sam Smith Tribute. I said, "Who is Sam Smith?" He replied, "Exactly what I said to Chris when he suggested he...
