Category: Calendar

Bogie and I were abruptly woken up at the stroke of midnight by explosions of fireworks and all the bells in the church banging and crashing in collision with the overhead cacophony of sounds celebrating the first seconds of Guadalupe’s Feast Day. Bogie meowed in protest and fled under the bed. I waited until it…

Puerto Vallarta will once again ring with the unmistakable pulse of synth-driven anthems this January as Delilah Beaucoup brings back her acclaimed musical tribute, Sweet Dreams: Annie Lennox/Eurythmics Experience, for a highly anticipated second season at Coco Cabaret. After a highly acclaimed first run that packed the house for two sold-out performances, the show returns…

Yesterday was so long and so busy, I didn’t have time to get tired! The overstimulation continued into a calm, quiet corner of Casita & Garden, where three large, round tables were simply, but elegantly laid for dinner with tiny roses in small vases clustered loosely in the center, offering up delicate scents and unobstructed…

It’s just past 5 am, and I am on my second cup of coffee. Why so early after a relatively late night? I have an appointment at 8 this morning for a couple of X-rays and maybe get to touch base with my IMSS doctor, who is in Aurora and close to one of my…

Patrice and I will make one more run out to Coapinole this morning to see if there are any fabulous sweaters or down vests to keep her warm when she flies home to southern Alberta the day after tomorrow. Of course, my eyes will be peeled for anything chiffon-y or so pretty I cannot ignore…

Forty-five years ago today, John Lennon was shot and killed outside his home in New York City. I was living in Victoria, B.C., an entire lifetime ago. I remember reading that shocking – and breaking – news running across the bottom of my TV screen, and it took hours to find out what happened. Today,…

On Sunday, December 14, Puerto Vallarta will gather at Biblioteca Los Mangos for an evening that celebrates more than just the holidays. The Tropical Christmas Garden Party brings music, community, and tropical holiday fun together to support the Vallarta School for Girls, a program changing the future for young women in the city. From 5…

A Mexican friend of mine told me there is a huge cold front on its way to Vallarta this weekend, bringing us rain. I hope he’s wrong. Plans are to go back to Mojoneras Sunday morning, but many of the streets in that colonia are unpaved, and it’s not fun slogging through mud up to…

Three weeks today is Christmas. It STILL amazes me to celebrate that day being warm as toast and being comfortable outside wearing practically no clothes at all. Our childhood memories live deep in our cells, and when it comes to being cold, I don’t have a single corpuscle that yearns for frosty mornings or the…

What a difference a day makes. Sounds trite, I know, but I went from having one of the worst days of my life to waking up this morning with Bogie’s insistent meows and loves to realizing the pain in my face was gone. Not just diminished but gone. My caring dentist, Orlando Godinez, with the…

Host Barry Kesler welcomes two extraordinary volunteers to The Puerto Vallarta Travel Show who are making significant impacts in Puerto Vallarta’s community. Kim Easter from Tampa, Florida, and Dale Boyotti from Canada share their inspiring stories of giving back through various charitable organizations and grassroots initiatives. Kim volunteers at RISE orphanage and helps with Angel’s…

Sunny Rossi, Presidenta of the Vallarta Garden Club, called our first board meeting of the 2025/26 season to order yesterday at Galeria Dante. The focus, as it is for all non-profits, was money, where we spent it all summer long, and what we need going forward to keep Vallarta pruned and flowering. Last night’s bizarre,…

The sound of rain woke me this morning, suddenly and with a jolt as I remembered the bunch of clothes I had washed and hung up to dry after our foray into the Mojoneras tianguis yesterday. By the time the dryer had finished, the rain had stopped too. Weird this time of year, the rain,…

The end of another week and month over these next couple of days; how was your Thanksgiving? Patrice and I talked about indulging in turkey with all the attendant goodies, but slid into some baked spaghetti from the air fryer instead. We get to keep our vegetarian badges for one more day! The cheesy carb…

Every Saturday night at 7 p.m., The Social Club in Puerto Vallarta becomes something electric, intimate, and quietly revolutionary. Velvet curtains, candlelit tables, sepia-toned photographs, and the venue’s multi-room, speakeasy-style mystery blur the line between stage and audience. Into that atmosphere steps Shannon Maracle—one of Toronto’s most expressive and emotionally fearless vocalists—delivering a performance that…

Live entertainment is fraught with danger, which is why it’s so compelling. A dozen things can go wrong and often do, which can bring a superstar down to the level of a mere fan who is sitting in the audience, both wondering wtf happened to the microphone. When all the elements come together, however, that’s…

Coapinole gave up loads of treasures for both Patrice’s and my closets yesterday. Patrice is so very good about rotating her clothes and donating things she has worn to her heart’s content, so she has room in her closet for new things. I can’t say the same. I overflowed my closet over a year ago…

My agenda today looks like a shopping list to stock the QE2: the tianguis in Coapinole first thing, followed by a stop at the great charity-driven Hotel Bazaar in Lomas de Coapinole. Then Costco, La Comer, come home, see our friends off, nap, I have a meeting at Sandra’s house at 5, followed by the…

Happy one month to Christmas! A sobering thought that includes winter and New Year’s Eve mere weeks away. The only sad part about it is that my sister Patrice will be back in Canada, happily with her menagerie, dealing with the snow and cold. We celebrate each trip she makes to Mexico with a bus…

There are nights in Puerto Vallarta when the energy shifts — when conversations get louder, cocktails taste brighter, and the whole city feels like it’s leaning toward something fun. Those are the nights when Amy Armstrong steps onto the stage at Nacho Daddy. A vocal powerhouse, a razor-sharp comedian, and a natural storyteller, Amy doesn’t…