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Ghost of Spanish dude sighted in CDMX, and he is pissed!
(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) A reeking appartition dressed in the decaying uniform of a Spanish Conquistador was sighted around Mexico City last week, and boy, was he pissed!
The shrieking ghost was seen haunting the Mexico City site of a 1720 battle where the indigenous Mexica Empire defeated the Spanish.
Area man Pito Perez, who reported the ghost to PNS, said it first he thought the goblin might be La Llorona, or pero his drunk Uncle Abelardo, the mariachi, but no.
Mas…Ghost of Spanish dude sighted in CDMX, and he is pissed!
Hot enough for you? In CDMX you can get tacos de helado! (video)
Hot under the collar in Mexico City? Tizne Tacomotora has ice cream tacos!
La Cucaracha: In Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe meet the neighbors
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La Cucaracha: In ancient Tenochtitlan, Chepe y Pepe use the ATM (toon)
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Pocha’s Guide to CDMX: Where to go, how to get robbed, what to eat
Last Sunday night my dad picked me up at the San Diego Airport after my nine-hour, one stop in Houston, flight from Mexico City, and my uncle called over the Bluetooth and started chatting about his recent visit to my city of residence.
“At first I was afraid to be walking around el Centro, but after a few days I got over it.”
If a Pocho who lived in CDMX for over 20 years fears a short trip back to Mexico City, then what are the rest of us Millenial Poch@s out here supposed to do to conquer this? Have no fear!
The Pochas Guide to Mexico City is here!
Mas…Pocha’s Guide to CDMX: Where to go, how to get robbed, what to eat
Natalie Scenters-Zapico: Poems about La Migra and more (video, text)
Profe and poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico, with violinist Ernesto Villalobos (of the Villalobos Brothers), served up some powerful music and poignant poemas at a recent perfomance in CDMX. [Video by Di/Verso Encuentro de Poemas en la Ciudad de México, a program from the city government.]
Here are the palabras:
Mas…Natalie Scenters-Zapico: Poems about La Migra and more (video, text)
Mexico City After Dark: The Search for El Trompo (video)
After the sun sets, Chilangos walk the darkened streets of Mexico D.F. in search of …. El Trompo! [Video by Urban Plane Media.]
Feliz Frijol Friday: ¡Fuerza México! #FFF (toon)
Want to help? Famed DF rescue brigade TOPOS needs your dinero donation.
Are these the best places to eat tacos in Mexico City? (video)
Where are the best tacos in Ciudad be Mexico? This video for Unknown Mexican Magazine thinks they know. Are the right?
Mexico City science teacher uses his Spidey Sense (video)
Mexico City science teacher Moises Vazquez has found a great way to lighten the mood in his classes and get students more relaxed and focused. He dresses up as Spider-Man.
This video from the Taco Gurú folks is a love letter to tacos
This video is a love letter to tacos from the folks behind the Mexican Taco Gurú app.
Mas…This video from the Taco Gurú folks is a love letter to tacos
Tacos are for everyone – paisas, gueros, y morenos tambien (video)
The tacos at Taqueria El Califa in Mexico City are for everyone – paisas, gueros y morenos tambien. All together now: WORLD PEACE AND TACO GREASE!
It’s in Spring in Teotihuacán: Let’s play (Mesoamerican) ball! (video)
Mexicans organized and participated in a national championship for the Mesoamerican Ballgame in Teotihuacán, the pre-Hispanic city outside of Mexico DF, on Saturday, Euronews reports.
“The pre-Colombian Mesoamerican Ballgame dates back to around 1500 BCE.”
Mas…It’s in Spring in Teotihuacán: Let’s play (Mesoamerican) ball! (video)
Live from Mexico City: It’s Chilango Street Art (photos)
POCHO amigo Professor Equis and his family were in Ciudad Mexico last week and he sent us these photos.
Mas…Live from Mexico City: It’s Chilango Street Art (photos)
Why there a ‘Penis Seat’ in the Mexico City metro? (videos)
The Mexico City Metro has installed a “penis seat” in one of its subway cars, featuring a molded likeness of a man’s torso and penis.
Por que? They hope to get men thinking about the sexual harrassment Mexico City mujeres have to put up with every pinche day.
Trade magazine Adweek reports:
Mas…Why there a ‘Penis Seat’ in the Mexico City metro? (videos)
Que Taco in San Antonio serves it up Mexico City style (video)
Que Taco taqueria on the north side of San Antonio takes its flavors from the heart of Mexico.
Mexican Dubwiser wants you to ‘Lecture Me’, babe (video)
Shot in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Mexican Dubwiser‘s latest “Post Futuristic Rebajada Cumbia Soul Experiment” is this chingon video with Spanglish rhymes with a mad house vibe. We like it.
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…and that’s how they make tortillas in Mexico City, D.F. (video)
Ritual ordinario mixes the sounds of Mexican streets with visuals of the process of making, baking, and selling tortillas. This video was shot and the ambient audio recorded in Mercado Cartagena in Mexico City, D.F. [Video by Ricardo Martinez Roa.]
DREAMer from Georgia, back in DF, tries to fit in (NPR audio)
Yovany Diaz was brought to the U.S. without papers when he was only seven, and he grew up in Georgia, speaking English. When his mom’s health issues required him to move “back” to Mexico City, this all-American ice hockey loving pocho found himself in a strange new world, even though it was “home.” James Frederick of NPR’s Latino USA has the story.
MX archaeologists find wind god temple under supermarket (video)
Archaelogoists have found a circular platform dedicated to wind god Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl and eight sets of human remains under the site of a demolished supermarket in the Tlatelolco area of Mexico City.
Mas…MX archaeologists find wind god temple under supermarket (video)
Mexicano collects 1000 pairs of sneakers, opens a sneaker store (video)
Roberto Pelayo aka El Niño is one of the world’s top sneakerheads, with a collection of over 1000 pairs. He started out as a collector is Mexico City; now he buys and sells for himself and his retail operations, Globstore.
Calaveras y catrinas y skeletons parade in Mexico City (video)
Hundred paraded through the streets of Mexico City last weekend to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, aka Day of the Dead.
Casting Call: Do it again, but this time act ‘Mor Mexican!’ (video)
In Mor Mexican! Mexico City-born actor Ricardo “Pekas” Aranda eats a McXican Burger for the casting director. But is he acting Hispanic enough? Maybe makeup and wardrobe can help.
This DF family has been making piñatas for generations (video)
Hugo Mena and his family make and sell piñatas in Mexico City, a family tradition for generations