By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Tlalpujahua, a little mountain town on the northeast end of the Mexican state of Michoacán, just two and a half hours outside Mexico City, didn’t start off to be a Christmas village. In fact, when it was first founded by Spanish settlers back in 1560, it was primarily a mining town, home to the Dos Estrellas mine,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Christmas is right around the corner (just 10 days away), so if you haven’t filled your gift list yet, now is definitely the time to do so. With Amazon and other deliver services suffering serious backlogs due to supply-chain breakdowns and other distribution issues, getting off the couch and doing in-person shopping may be your best option
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If you’re new to Mexico, you might be surprised when, starting on around mid-December, your neighbors suddenly begin banging on your door late at night demanding refuge and hot punch. Those already familiar with Mexican Christmas traditions will recognize this unusual ritual as the official start of the holiday season. La Posada – literally, the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Blush-red poinsettias have long been regarded around the world as the perfect companion to seasonal traditions and classic Christmas decorations. Lesser known is the leafy, long-stemmed flowers’ far-flung history. Called nochebuenas in Spanish (literally “holy night,” referring to Christmas Eve), the poinsettia has traveled across oceans and changed varieties more than 70 times within
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By RICH GRANT It is forever Christmas at McKonkey’s Ferry Inn. The dining room in this lovely tavern, located on the banks of the Delaware River, 42 miles upstream from Philadelphia, is always decorated as it would have been on Christmas night, 1776, when George Washington had his dinner here. As Washington dined, 2,400 of his men assembled outside along
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Merry Christmas!
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Imagine a museum dedicated to the most important person in your life, YOU! Yes, it is time to get ready for your own personal photo op, set in a winter wonder-landscape with peppermint candy canes, sugarplum fairies, magical elves and even a giant Christmas unicorn. Mexico City’s very first pop-up Selfie Museum is set to open on
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By RICH GRANT Other than in movies, I had never seen someone actually get down on one knee and propose marriage. So it was something of a surprise to witness two proposals in two days – and in both cases, I was so close, I was asked to take the first selfie of the happy couple. But that’s the type
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Photo: Enlace Judio By CAROLINE BRENNAN Mexico rich in its culture and heritage, is also rich in its immigrant population who were welcomed to its shores from all over the world. One significant immigrant group was that of Jewish families, fleeing persecution and strife in their homelands, many of whom who sought refuge in Mexico in the 1940s to start
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Once again, Christ Church is offering a chance to jumpstart your holiday shopping with its annual Christmas bazaar, slated for Saturday, Dec. 4. The bazaar, which has been a tradition at Mexico’s oldest Anglican church for more than a century, will include an array of handmade and artisan Mexican crafts, as well as
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