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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.
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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.
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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 . .
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Other Perspectives



How I learned to love scorpions
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Lent: Feasting, Not Fasting



The amazing, versatile nopalito
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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.
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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
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Music of a Cherished Land



Oaxaca is a land of beauty and joy and sadness, of poetry and romance
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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.
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Recipes Nopalitos



Two Popular Dishes associated with Lent
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Blow me away



Fireworks: Mexico's home-grown psychiatric therapy.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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