By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Aeromar, Mexico’s fourth-largest commercial airline, announced on Wednesday, April 15, that it will offer free national flights to health care personnel throughout the Covid-19 contingency. The campaign, called Héroes con Bata (Heroes in Lab Coats) will run through May 15, and the airlines will absorb the full cost, including taxes, of the first 100
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By RICH GRANT It’s hard to pinpoint the attraction of Billy the Kid. Viewed in one light, he was probably a psychopath who gunned down a sheriff and two (maybe three) deputies in cold blood, as well as some other assorted enemies. He was an outlaw, a rustler, a hired gun and a murderer, who was himself shot dead at
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By RICH GRANT This much, everyone agrees on. At 3 p.m. on the cold, blistery afternoon of Oct. 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Wyatt’s friend John “Doc” Holliday set off down Fremont Street in Tombstone, Arizona. They walked side-by-side. Virgil Earp was the acting town marshal, the other men had been deputized. Each man
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By RICH GRANT The six-foot-two-inch female impersonator in the gold dress curled her finger at me across Duval Street and shouted, “Come on over, honey, the show starts in 15 minutes.” She was wrong. The “show” in Key West started about 180 years ago and it’s still going strong. This somewhat crazy tropical island, capital of the self-proclaimed Conch Republic,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While people across Mexico struggle to stock their pantries and convince their children to scrub their hands with soap and water in the face of the growing novel coronavirus epidemic, one of the first and most severely injured victims of the Covid-19 crisis is the nation’s hospitality industry. Although Mexico City is still in Phase 1, which
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By RICH GRANT “When I first came here, almost 30 years ago, Vallarta was a fishing village of some 2,000 souls. There was one road to the outside world – and it was impassable during the rainy season.” So wrote American film director John Huston about his first encounter with the sleepy, isolated fishing village he was destined to change
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By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL When most people hear the phrase “City of Lights” they think of Paris. But when I hear a reference to the City of Lights, I think of the colorful central Vietnam coastal town of Hoi An, and its brightly, multihued buildings, French architecture and streets adorned with hundreds of lanterns of various shapes, sizes and colors
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — Tourism is a relatively new industry in Azerbaijan. Despite the fact that the tiny, landlocked republic can lay claim to three separate UNESCO World Heritage Sites — the medieval walled city of Old Baku, with its mysterious and emblematic Maiden Tower and the Palace of King Shirvanshah, built in the 15th century; the incomparable
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By RICH GRANT Feb. 22 marks the birthday of United States’ very first president, George Washington, a stately man renowned for his honesty, integrity and idealistic vision of democracy. But while much is known about Washington in his later years, it was during his earlier life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – the site which would eventually become the new nation’s first
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By RICH GRANT Every month, almost a million vehicles travel the 100 miles on Interstate 70 between Denver and Vail, Colorado. They zoom past gorgeous Rocky Mountain scenery at speeds up to 75 mph, burrow through the highest auto tunnel in North America, and switch back their way over the two-mile-high Vail Pass. But those in the know, slow
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