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Read moreJunk Food Images Fill Mexico’s Popular Art Museum
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s Museum of Popular Art (MAP) opened an exhibit on Saturday, Aug. 6, of pictures painted by artist Gina Salazar, who has made it her life’s work to capture images of junk food and other everyday items consumed around the world. The exhibit, titled “Mirar lo Inadvertido” (“Seeing the Unnoticed”), is intended to draw attention to the
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Read moreDance Troupe to Perform Earth-Friendly Ballet
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s MdMar Danza troupe will preform the choreographic theatrical presentation of its new work, “Micelio,” at the National Fine Arts Palace on Tuesday. Aug. 9, at 8:00 p.m. Now in its 30th year, MdMar, led by choreographer Myrna de la Garza, is known for its intertwining of the playful with the aesthetic, the metaphor with the body,
Read moreIndigenous Culture Festival Slated for Mexico City Zócalo
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Zócalo main plaza in downtown Mexico City will be the venue for the VIII Festival of Indigenous Cultures, People and Communities from Friday, Aug. 5, through Sunday, Aug. 21, the capital’s Culture Secretariat announced late last week. The event, which will have as its guests of honor members of the often-marginalized Afro-Mexican communities of Oaxaca, Guerrero
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Read moreNavigating Mexico: Your Right to Snap a Pix
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Most tourists and visitors to Mexico likely assume laws and customs are similar in here to their home countries. So what’s legal and what’s not when taking pictures or shooting video, especially in the context of younger generations documenting every move in life? The rules of the game are very different in Mexico when compared,
Read morePeruvian Photo Exhibit to Open along Avenida Reforma
PULSE NEWS MEXICO An exhibition of 30 large-format photographs of Peru and Amazonia is slated to open on Friday, July 22, along Avenida Paseo de la Reforma along the Walk of the Friendly Cultures, located between the Ahuehuete Roundabout and Avenida Insurgentes. The images, which are being presented by the Peruvian Embassy in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexico City
Read moreOne Actress, Eight Roles in Psychological Monologue
PULSE NEWS MEXICO As part of the celebration of her 92nd birthday, renowned Mexican actress Teresa Selma will star in a special one-night-only performance of “El Consultorio de la Dra. Spellman” (“The Office of Dr. Spellman”), a one-person monologue written by Jaliscan actor and playwright Alberto Estrella about a psychoanalyst who takes on the personalities of all her patients, at
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