A Non-Stop Weekend
Season in Vallarta holds great gifts: returning friends and colleagues who come back annually, get in touch, and for a couple of hours, memories and conversation slide between past, present, and future like mercury set free to roam. Brian De Lorenzo, John Amodeo, and I met at Trovasi in Los Mercados for a light breakfast and some chit chat. Brian is an accomplished, well-known singer on the Eastern seaboard, and John and I both write for NiteLifeExchange magazine from New York. The food was nearly as good as the company.
I met with the ever-gorgeous Angela Curley in the lobby of Coco Cabaret with a few minutes to spare before the show began. She wanted me to have my birthday present (on November 9th) before she and hubby, Art, went to Hawaii for a couple of weeks. She had been packing this gift around, hoping to run into me at some point. Instructions were to read the card first, and the rest would make sense. A quick kiss, then she disappeared into the theatre.
When I got home, I opened the card and read, ”Marcia, Your writing is always Artwork to us!! Now may it be art for you too!! Happy Birthday, Art & Angela Curley.”
In the box was an exquisite quill pen, complete with ink and extra nibs. Wow. It is so beautiful, and I am utterly grateful.
Jodi Wolk and I have been trying to get together for dinner for ages, and we landed the last available table at Casita & Garden last Friday to see Ale and Dabit, aka Tromba Vetusta. The best word to describe these two would be e-t-h-e-r-e-a-l, as in heavenly or spiritual. Their deep connection to one another rolls over the audience like a warm blanket, inviting us to get closer. The attention paid to these two performers from Costa Rica is as close to homage as one can get in a ”restaurant with live entertainment.” As Ale sings in a handful of languages, she will now and again glance at her partner, Dabit, who is playing accordion or guitar, with a smile filled with so much love it is contagious. Talk about a rapt audience!
Getting to know Jodi better over samosas and mushroom pizza with a side of icy-cold mezcal martinis was beyond delightful. We have promised to make it a habit to get together like that often this winter.
”Rolling on the River,” the annual ‘Paws for a Cause‘ fundraiser took place in Paso Ancho at La Huerta BBQ. My dear friend Deborah Cole, who was a sponsor for this event to raise money for Friends of Vallarta Animals and the Vallarta City pound, picked me up with her adorable pomeranian, Sadie, who caught everyone’s attention throughout the all-day event. Alison Lo and Kevin Anthony hosted the roster of singers that began with Mau Jimenez and ended with Sylvie and the Zippers. Patriz, Effie Passero, and Wendy Warhol kept us entertained as we ate, drank, and enjoyed perfect weather and equally perfect company, From Here.
