Pedro and Rosa’s baby is sick. “I’m going to go sell the cow to buy medicine for the baby,” Pedro tells Rosa, “I’ll be back soon.” Off he goes, cow in tow, which he entrusts to a friend to sell for him. But Pedro’s friend doesn’t return. Penniless and far from home, Pedro comes upon [...]
I very rarely plug my friends’ work in my blog (and I really should make a habit of it, seeing as I have so many wildly talented friends) but I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head since yesterday and I can barely bring myself to listen to anything else. Plus, [...]
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is still the longest running show in sweet home Chicago. In fact, it’s almost as old as me–TML and The Neo-Futurists, the troupe behind it, have been goin’ strong since 1988. Thirty plays in sixty minutes. That’s their schtick. And they do it with humor and honesty [...]
Ah, the sweet sounds of spaceship-building in the evening. While the organizers of Cóctel de Femme and I hold down the EDELO kitchen in preparation for next week’s Festival de Energía [...]
With 15 days left ’til the equinox, I can honestly say that “Mientras Quepa En La Maleta,” the art exhibition that ended its cross-country tour at the Museo del Ámbar in San Cristóbal [...]
“Stop the world, we want to get off!” reads the busy green invitation to El Forito Nomada’s weekend festival of art, music, clowns, theater, film, and poetry at EDELO Residencia in [...]
“Come hear the secret.” She beckons us. “The secret of Mother Earth.” It is a clear afternoon at la catedral in San Cristóbal de las Casas when, suddenly, dozens of masked figures in robes of red, green, and blue pour into the [...]
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I Want You To Hit Me And Other Lessons I've Learned From Woman-Blaming Misogynists
It's Here! The Very First Chalchihuitan Telenovela
My Love/Hate Relationship With Positive Psychology
¡Ni Una Más! Because No One Wants To Be A Martyr When They Grow Up
Yes! And vs. Awkward Silence: Improv For "Beginners"
