By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So who says you have to stick to turkey or ham for Christmas and New Year’s? Certainly not the good folks at Mexico’s Entre Fuegos restaurant group, who firmly believe that a true holiday celebration begins with a great cut of beef. All three of the Puebla-based group’s brands are offering up eat-in-or-take-out set holiday menus this
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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 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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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 10,000 Mexican families attended the Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City on Sunday, Oct. 31. The celebration of life and death parade, which included an upbeat procession of costumed marchers and alebrijes floats down Mexico City’s Avenida Reforma, constituted the first large event in the capital since the onset of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Once known throughout the world as Columbus Day, Oct. 12 in Mexico now marks Día de la Raza (Day of the Indigenous Races). A national holiday in many countries and one of 10 legal federal holidays in the United States, the date commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in 1492,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Canada celebrates its national day on Thursday, July 1. Canada Day marks the creation of the dominion of Canada through the British North America Act of July 1, 1867, uniting three British territories, the Province of Canada (composed of southern Ontario and southern Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, into a single federation. Originally
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Wednesday, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day, and, at least for 24 hours, just about everyone is Irish, or, as the old Dublin saying goes, “wishes they were.” And even though the Irish community in Mexico is relatively small – less than 5,000, including descendants of the martyred San Patricios, an artillery battalion made up of mainly
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite an official lockdown order from Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum to help curb the spread of the raging covid-19 pandemic, Mexico City residents took to the streets and celebrated the Christmas and New Year holidays in force last month, violating citywide mandates on large gatherings. According to the Mexico City Citizen Command, Control, Computer, Communications
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