The New York Times travel section features “36 Hours In Mexico City” this weekend – a city bursting at the seams with people, pollution…and amazing culture. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind, as a traveler, that Mexico should be on your list of places to visit in 2010.
The peso is currently at 12.76-1, which [...]
Jan 13, 2010
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Occasionally a televised soccer game will display a graphic specifying the mileage of a midfielder. They run a lot. Sometimes the graphic will state 6 miles, sometimes 10. I was fortunate enough to see Zack De La Rocha of Rage Against The Machine perform about 10 times, and I’d guess he bobbed, thrashed, pogoed, quick-stepped, [...]
New York City, Boise City, Salt Lake City and now Paonia/Montrose, CO. It’s been a hectic six days. But don’t think I haven’t made time to sift through my RSS feeds. It’s like rummaging through dusty paperbacks at a closeout bookstore…except virtual. Ahem. Links!
This is all you need to know about the soon-to-be-hippest-blog-in-town: recent new [...]
Berlin-based Electro-Indie artist Anna Rosenthal travels all the way from her native Germany to give the Hotel Cafe a dose of her smooth synth sounds. Check out her show live tonight @ 7pm. [via Hotel Cafe]
I can’t take a trip without paying a visit to mega-music store Amoeba. Lots of shows this week, which means [...]
And by lax I mean that they simply made me fill out a piece of paper specifying that I was fit to fly, without aches and pains, and not about to soil myself. When I asked my Aero Mexico attendee about my future May 4th flight back to Mexico City — and if I should [...]
It’s 5pm and Mexico City is closing in on the last hours of Swine Flu Day. The World Health Organization believes there is a serious Swine Flu threat towards humans of pandemic proportions and it has raised internal alerts in order to shell out cash for immediate precautionary action.
60 deaths and about 900 infected persons [...]
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