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Current Issue:
March, 2010

From The Editor
	I am still enjoying the residual rapture of Wednesday night's sublime program of jazz. So indulge me, as this Current Edition page is refined and edited for your reading pleasure. READ MORE

The Grand Finale
	ONE MORE TIME Luis Gasco and friends return for one last set, tonight, Monday, Mar. 8 at the Split Coconut, Hotel Jardin Real, Bacocho. READ MORE

Register Your Mexican Cellular Phone Before April 10
	Register Your Mexican Cellular Phone Before April 10 Or Lose the Use of that Number. What you need to know . . READ MORE

Other Perspectives
	How I learned to love scorpions READ MORE

Lent: Feasting, Not Fasting
	The amazing, versatile nopalito READ MORE

For the Birds... & Whales
	The fastest growing hobby in the U.S. and Europe these days is bird watching. Not really surprising, as we baby boomers slow down some. The great biodiversity of the Oaxacan coast is just one of its many attractions. READ MORE

A Day with the Birdman
	LIKE THE MIGRATORY Blue-winged Teal Duck, eco-tour guide Michael Malone spends his summers in Ontario, Canada and his winters in Puerto Escondido. Mike started ecotourism around Puerto Escondido in 1985 when he befriended a local taxi driver READ MORE

Music of a Cherished Land
	Oaxaca is a land of beauty and joy and sadness, of poetry and romance READ MORE

The Many Ways to San José
	There are so many towns, neighborhoods, counties named for the New Testament patriarch that the annual fairs to celebrate St. Joseph's fast day are not just easy to find, but hard to avoid. Some local San Joes to visit. READ MORE

Recipes Nopalitos
	Two Popular Dishes associated with Lent READ MORE

Blow me away
	Fireworks: Mexico's home-grown psychiatric therapy. READ MORE

Puerto Music 2010: Magic Under the Stars
	Raucous, rowdy, unapologetic rock 'n' roll that makes you want to dance! If you missed Neil Chapman's tour de force Wednesay, don'tmake the same mistake Saturday night. READ MORE

San José del Pacífico
	YOU COULDN'T FIND an environment more different from the tropical languor of the Oaxacan coast than the breathtaking vistas of forested peaks among the clouds in the high Southern Sierra READ MORE

Anatomy of a Fiesta
	IF YOU THINK THAT IT seems is if there's always a fiesta going on around here, you are probably right. The people of the Oaxaca coast are passionate in embracing their cultural traditions. READ MORE

A Traditional Mixtec Fiesta: Huazolotitlan
IN OUR SHRINKING WORLD of instant communication, globalisation and the relentless assault of homogenized mass culture, the resilience of the indigenous people of Oaxaca in conserving their identity and cultural heritage is READ MORE