By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A colorful pageant of hundreds of oversized winged dragons, gargantuan multihued insects and superhuman-sized Catrina walking-dead dolls took to the streets in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 22, as the now-iconic Monumental Alebrijes Parade got underway at the capital’s Zócalo central plaza shortly after 10 a.m. The parade, which was heralded in a concert of spooky-toned music
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Seductive Beauty in the MeToo Era By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Fashion trends may come and go, but seductive elegance has always been a mainstay of catwalk chic. Even in this hazy #MeToo era, where overt provocation has given way to more elusive feminine sophistication, alluring sybaritic beauty is still a key element of fashion-forward style. Fashion, makeup and perfumes are intentionally
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National World Culture Museum (MCCM) opened an exhibit of more than 150 Japanese calendars for 2019 on Monday, Jan. 7. The exhibit, organized in cooperation with the Japanese Embassy, includes pictures of Japanese landscapes, temples, castles, volcanos, cherry blossom trees, water paintings and other cultural images. The exhibit will remain on display at the MCCM,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the ubiquitous images of painted skeletons and sugar skulls that abound across Mexico this time of year might be a bit off-putting for visitors from other countries, the golden orange color of thousands of marigold (cempasúchitl) flowers that line Avenida Reforma and decorate the omnipresent ofrendas (altars to the deceased) at least give
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For the 12th straight year, a pageant of hundreds of oversized winged dragons, gargantuan multihued insects and superhuman-sized Catrina walking-dead dolls took to the streets in Mexico City on Saturday, Oct. 21, as the now-iconic Monumental Alebrijes Parade got underway. The parade, which this year was heralded in by a spooky-toned blues concert courtesy of Bandula and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s premiere Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández and the Carlos Chávez School Orchestra will joint forces for a special one-night-only gala performance to mark the nation’s independence holiday in the main auditorium of the Palacio de Bellas Artes on Sunday, Sept. 16, In addition to the music for the folklore ballet, the Carlos Chávez
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Scientific and archeological research has resumed at the pre-Hispanic Maya archeological site Yaxchilán, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, according to sources at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The site, first explored by English archeologist Alfred Percival Maudslay at the start of the 20th century, is located next to the Usumacinta River.
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By THE PULSE NEWS STAFF An exhibit of this year’s winners of FOCO MX, Mexico’s most important photographic competition, is due to open at the Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos on Saturday, May 12. This year’s exhibit will include winning works by more than 50 Mexican artists who participated in the 2017 Concurso de Fotografía Contemporánea de México, one of the largest number
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More than three months after the devastating earthquakes that struck Mexico on Sept. 7 and 19 of this year, the Mexican government has finally begun the tedious reconstruction and restoration of the more than 1,800 historical landmarks damaged by the tremors
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