Por Jesús Aguado “De golosos y tragones, están llenos los panteones” reza el dicho mexicano. Y la realidad es que si lo vemos a la inversa, es verdad; y es … Leer más Por Jesús Aguado Las ofrendas para los muertos, volverán a colocarse alrededor del Jardín Principal. Habrá teatro, música, y danza—dijo el director […]
By Fernanda Noriega San Miguel de Allende is a city rich in variety when it comes to mixology and cocktails. It has even been the venue for events such as Millesime, a festival where the protagonist is wine because of the number of vineyards here, and the Michelada Festival, which, if I remember correctly, takes […]
By Lydia Carey Oaxaca has so many things to offer—incredible food, beautiful landscapes, charming architecture—but one underappreciated gem is the state’s small, family-run distilleries sprinkled throughout the countryside. Here you find the masters of mezcal, the “elixir of the gods.” It’s a rapidly growing superstar among distilled spirits worldwide. A few weeks ago, I got […]
The traditional altar of the Day of the Dead arrived last Friday at Rockefeller Center in New York, one of the most emblematic places in the city that this year, instead of paying homage to American Halloween, has opted for Mexican customs. The huge altar, dedicated to all the essential workers who perished during the […]
By Joseph Plummer Eastern Massachusetts is the epicenter of American Unitarianism, emerging there some two centuries after its nontrinitarian doctrine first sprouted in Poland in the mid-1500s, and then migrated to Transylvania in the 1600s, and England in the early 1700s. In this UUFSMA Sunday Service, the Reverend Tom Rosiello, Fellowship Minister, will outline the […]
Por Alejandro Angulo ¿Hasta dónde podemos ceder parte de nuestra libertad para lograr conservar nuestro entorno ambiental? Cuando la incertidumbre, como diría Zygmunt B., es el hábitat natural de la … Leer más Por Alejandro Angulo El 22 de marzo se conmemoró el Día Mundial del Agua; este año el lema es “La importancia del […]
By Deborah Bickel, PA, MPH I moved to San Miguel de Allende in 2014. I came here from Mozambique in southern Africa, where I worked for many years serving communities affected by HIV as an advocate, clinician, epidemiologist, program manager, policy wonk, and writer. I trained as a physician assistant at Stanford University and completed […]
By Luis Felipe Rodriguez On July 9, 1564, Tata Vasco, bishop of Michoacán, ordered the erection of the first Parish of San Miguel Arcángel. Former city chronicler, Cornelio Lopez Espinoza, states that the first parish of San Miguel Arcángel was housed within the church of San Rafael, because the building which we know as the […]
By Paola Velasco The State of Aguascalientes has always had excellent climatic conditions for the cultivation of grapes that produce fine wines. In fact, wine has been produced in the region since the founding of Aguascalientes in 1575. Very early on, local people cultivated grapes in the fertile soil around Aguascalientes and produced homemade wines […]
By Luis Felipe Rodriguez The first stones of the San Francisco church were laid on June 29, 1779. This event took place exactly 237 years after Fray Juan de San Miguel founded San Miguel along the Laja River in 1542, at a site known as San Miguel Viejo. In 1551, the community moved to the […]
Editorial Viñedo San Miguel nace por el deseo de seguir con una tradición de más de 400 años que nos remonta a Villa Petriolo, una de las casas vitivinícolas más antiguas de Europa, la cual buscó continuar con su legado y encontró en el bajío tierras ideales para expandirse. Está ubicado en el corazón de […]
By Kathleen Bohné Lowenstein On Feb 7, 1937, a Chicago-born artist named Stirling Dickinson arrived in San Miguel de Allende by train, then took a mule-drawn cart into town. “I looked up and saw the Parroquia sticking up out of the fog, and I said, ‘My gosh, what a place!’ At the time, the town […]
Por fin regresa la Feria de la Enchilada a la CDMX y esta vez viene «recargada» ya que la edición 19 de este evento contará con al menos 200 variedades de enchiladas y 35 expositores locales e invitados que vienen de lugares como Xochimilco, Milpa Alta y el estado de Oaxaca. Durante el primer día […]
By Zaira Eliette Espinosa An alien named David Robert Haywood Jones, known to the world as David Bowie, arrived on planet earth in 1947. Born on January 8, the same day as Elvis Presley, he came to a British family living outside of London in a dilapidated neighborhood devastated by World War II missiles. Bowie […]
