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HOY’s Family Service & Fun trip – the Habanera family

Cindy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:00:39 +0000

The all-day, everyday, rainy, unusually cold month of July came to an end with the start of HOY’s new family themed participatory trip. The Habanera family, a family of four from British Columbia,...

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A forest in the middle of Mexico City

CrisM — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:16:45 +0000

For a (long) while now, I’ve been wanting to write a little about the Bosque de Tlalpan, or translated, the Forest of Tlalpan. We have written a couple of times now about this beautiful...

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Census of US Language Use

Ashes77 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:50:20 +0000

The US Census Bureau this month released the 2007 study of Languages spoken in the US. Contrary to Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin, the US has grown even more diverse than in the past. These are the...

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7 Artists on “El Zócalo”

Ashes77 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:32:38 +0000

All of the blogs we read to put together eldefe.com covered this exhibit at the Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico. Here’s Ciudadanos en Red. Esencia y Espacio is here. Espacio Blanco did a nice...

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Mexico City’s Extreme West

Ashes77 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:07:17 +0000

Is it ArtNaco or a Diversity of Ugly? Translated from the Original on Eldefe.com by Isaac Vazquez. Photos are by the author. Click any photo to enlarge. This is the second post in the series. The...

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The Lecheria – La Venta Highway

ExpMexico — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:45:21 +0000

Picture this: a mountainous area dotted with trees and fields. In the distance, the gleam of a lake hidden between hills, and further afield, some houses on top of the next hill still further away. ...

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An Evening in Roma

Ashes77 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:52:51 +0000

No, not Roma-Norte. Roma-Detergente! There is a part in Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London” where the author is literally scraping grease off the dishes with bits of...

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Introducing Milpa Alta

Ashes77 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:58:35 +0000

Geologically the youngest delegation in Mexico City, Milpa Alta is also one of the city’s greatest escapes. We’re almost finished with our colonia’s mapping project. Milpa Alta has...

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Money Quotes from the Meltdown

Ashes77 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:28:04 +0000

Because it’s fun conflating things said about the Wall Street mess with the War on Drugs. If the broken incentive system were fixed, Wall Street big shots could suddenly be able to “see” the...

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Enjoying nature in Mexico City’s Ajusco

CrisM — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:51:16 +0000

If you’ve ever flown into Mexico City and stared out the windows as the plane comes in, you were probably amazed at what seems to be a city that goes on forever. There are buildings as far as...

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