The towering U.S. television host Conan O’Brien is drawing stares in Mexico, where he’s taping an episode of his show in a bid to “do something positive” about the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations. O’Brien, who is 6-feet-4, arrived late last week and has spent part of his time in Mexico City strolling the streets, greeting people and trying the food.
Category: Mexico
Juan Gabriel Returns to Mexico This Weekend – in Hologram Form
Mexican pop music fans were devastated last August when one of the country’s most beloved singers, Juan Gabriel, passed away at age 66. But today, Saturday, Feb. 18, fans in Toluca, Mexico will get a chance to see El Divo de Juarez in action once again – courtesy of Hologram USA, the same company that resurrected Tupac Shakur in hologram form at Coachella in 2012. The Juan Gabriel hologram – which, if you want to get all technical, isn’t really a hologram – will appear as part of a tribute concert called “Juan Gabriel, Eternally” at the Foro Pegaso in Toluca, a suburb of Mexico City.
Book review: Poet Miguel Gonz lez-Gerth new collection spans his
Poet Miguel Gonzlez-Gerth , now 90, has written in traditional forms and in free verse. While his strong formal poems never fall heavily on their rhymed endings, the free verse lyrics tend to be even stronger.
Trumpa s border wall ignores a long history of U.S. cooperation with Mexico. Thata s a problem.
Marchers in Mexico City protest Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric and his vows to make Mexico pay for his “big, beautiful” border wall on Feb. 12. In late January, Trump’s executive order on border security called for the construction of the wall, along with increased border patrol activities to control immigration. The order requests a full review of all “direct or indirect Federal aid or assistance” to Mexico over the past five years – and Trump claimed in a Jan. 25 ABC interview that “we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico.”
Diego Rivera’s Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA
Two paintings by Diego Rivera, including his 1915 Cubist masterpiece, have joined “Picasso & Rivera: Conversations Across Time,” an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opened in December. “Zapatista Landscape” and “Flowered Canoe” had been on loan to the Grand Palais in Paris for “Mxico 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Jos Clemente Orozco and the Avant-Garde.”
Corruption tour shines unflattering light on graft in Mexico
The tour bus Corruptour runs through the streets in Mexico City, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. This is the newest addition to the ubiquitous open-air tour buses that crisscross Mexico City each day: The Corruptour, which instead of taking folks to historic plazas and churches, shines an unflattering spotlight on the murky world of graft.
‘Conan Without Borders: Made in Mexico’ to air on TBS March 1
TBS says Conan O’Brien will travel to Mexico City to tape the new, primetime special Conan Without Borders: Made in Mexico . The hour-long special is to air March 1. The episode will employ an all-Mexican staff, crew, guests and studio audience, the cable network noted.
New U.S. leader draws range of world reactions
There was dismay in Britain, applause in Russia and silence in Japan. French populists found hope, Mexican leaders expressed concern and Germany’s vice chancellor offered an allusion to his country’s dark past.
Five reportedly dead after shooting at BPM Festival
The tragedy at the dance music and EDM event took place in the early hours of the morning, with Jackmaster Tweeting from Playa Del Carmen in Mexico after shots were fired at Blue Parrot during Elrow’s closing party. “Someone has come into the club in Playa Del Carmen and opened fire,” he Tweeted.
Will Trump’s promised wall become taxpayer-fundeda
It was the signature promise of his campaign: Donald Trump vowed to build an impenetrable, concrete wall along the southern border. And Mexico was going to pay for it.
In a sea of corpses, a lone detective struggles to solve one murder at a time
In his classic book “Killings,” Calvin Trillin said that writing about violence is best when it allows us to delve more into how people lived than into how they died. This claim has been tested over the last dozen years, though, given the unrelentingly gruesome news out of Mexico, a country where I lived for 10 years ending in 2004: mounds of headless bodies, corpses hanging from overpasses, a man known as “The Soupmaker” who dissolved cartel victims in acid baths, 43 students incinerated, etc.