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A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

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A Taste of India

Mexico City's gastronomic excellence includes a wide variety of international cuisines.  One which is well represented here is Indian cuisine.  About a block away from the apartment we have an excellent restaurant called Dawat.  I don't know if I have ever written about on the blog, but we have eaten there numerous times.

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"El Fantasma de la Opera" is now playing at the historic Insurgentes Theater down the avenue from us.  It is one of my favorite musicals.  I first saw "Phantom" years ago in Toronto, and later it came on tour to Cleveland.  I saw the movie, and I have the original cast recording.  Obviously I bought tickets for us as soon as I saw that it was going to be h...

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Christmas decorations are going up throughout the city. 

At Dakota 95, a small shopping mall down the street, the tree is in place.

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Return to Oz

 In 1995, writer Gregory Maguire wrote the best selling fantasy novel "Wicked".  It is a revision of the "Wizard of Oz" in which the life of Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West, is presented in a sympathetic light.  Maguire's novel was later used as the basis for the hit Broadway musical.  The musical in turn spawned a two-part movie.  Alejandro...

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Big Heart

In the past, the advertising slogan for the Mexico City tourism department was "The City That Has Everything".  Now there is a new ad campaign, and the slogan is "Ciudad de México, Corazón Grande"  ("Mexico City, Big Heart").

I have seen a couple of the new posters.  This one is in a nearby subway station.

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