Overcast skies, black steel-reenforced billboard and industrial building are all sexy to me.

Mas photos.

I live on the border of Colonia Condesa and Roma Norte, a few blocks away from the Chapultapec metro stop. It’s an area bustling in the day and devoid of crowds at night. You can find the most amazing quesadillas drenched in Habanero sauce and dripping with the oily residuals of Oaxacan cheese at 7am. You can also find a surplus of unemployed workers rummaging down streets, ringing doorbells of strangers and pleading for work. I set off towards Roma Norte, walking along Calle Puebla until I reached Calle Cozumel because I remembered a little Cuban spot known as the Bodeguita. I veered off towards Calle Durango where I tried to enter a musical instrument shop only to have the security guard tell me I had to put my camera away and store my backpack right near the entrance of the door. Negative, vato. It’s like asking me to hand over my wad of bills to a perfect stranger for no apparent reason. Good thing I smelled some tacos de bistek (I think) down the road to distract me. Check out some pictures below.

A few Mexico City expats attended my friend’s short film screening at the Jewish Film Festival in Mexico City last night. Judy Mam (above) screened her film “Close Relations“, which has premiered in Italy and Palm Springs, to a packed theater. The film has also been shown in Park Slope and will be shown in Mexico City throughout the week.

The shorts program also included “39 Pounds Of Love.” It’s the story of “Ami”, a 34-year-old sufferer of muscular dystrophy who was given six years to live at the age of one. He enjoys whiskey, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, animation and anything else that invigorates his life with passion. After considerable dissapproval from his mother, Ami sets off on a quest to find the doctor who notified his mother 33 years earlier that Ami would live only until the age of six. He sets off for America from Tel Aviv, Israel and his entire journey is documented.