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In recent months I have been seeing quite a few tile plaques in the subway stations that commemorate events or people from Mexican history.
In the Pino Suárez station I saw this plaque honoring an historic figure I had never heard of.. Altagracia Mercado.
I suspect that some of you are probably tired of posts dealing with soccer, but the World Cup has dominated Mexico City this summer. Even weeks after the tournament's end, "fútbol" is still omnipresent.
I was recently in the Pino Suárez subway station, and came across an exhibit of soccer-related art there. The paintings are by a contemporary artist named Erik Rivera....
I wrote in an earlier post that we had tickets for a stage production of "The Sound of Music" (known in Spanish as "La Novica Rebelde"... "The Rebel Novice"). Last Saturday we attended the performance at one of the theaters in the Plaza Centro Cultural.
It seems to have become a regular event at the "Glorieta de Insurgentes", a transportation hub with a subway station and Metrobus stop. As I passed through, once again the mariachi band of the Mexico City police department was giving a concert to the public.
Some of you may remember that before I began renting the apartment which I eventually bought, I stayed several times at an Airbnb in the Condesa neighborhood. I had already started renting my current home when the deadly and destructive earthquake of 2017 struck. My building suffered no damage, but the apartment building in Condesa had some serious structural damage. For s...