Category: Calendar

It’s Ash Wednesday, and you will see dozens of Catholics today with smudges on their foreheads. Forty days from now, Vallarta will be overrun with Easter celebrants for Semana Santa, mixed in with Spring Breakers. It is always a joyful chaos. This is also a warning: go shopping NOW and stock up on the stuff…

Round Two in the quest to find a suitable hunk to represent Vallarta for the coming year was completed yesterday afternoon at Coco Cabaret. We did our part, ogled, cheered for our faves, clapped, screamed between mouthfuls of popcorn, and drank several martinis in an hour. It’s the enormous stress. Waleska promoted her Madonna Tribute,…

The new Rio Cuale Wellness Center in El Caloso was inaugurated last Friday with Cuban food, drinks, dance, live music, and an exhibition of the works of painter Rogelio Perez. Lots of happy people trekked up the stairs and enjoyed the quartet and the spontaneous crush of people doing what Vallarta does best – play.…

This February 2026 episode of The Puerto Vallarta Travel Show opens with heartfelt news about the passing of JR (John Russell), a beloved local expert and long-time friend who inspired the podcast’s creation 10 years ago. Host Barry shares touching memories of JR, who passed away at 85 from undiagnosed esophageal cancer, and announces a…

By the time Susan Jeremy was shown the door for the first time, she was only 16 years old. The job was Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips, the manager was named Robert, and the sting of rejection landed hard. “I never forgot it,” Jeremy says. “It was my first job other than babysitting, and I…

They got married here on the beach in Vallarta eight years ago, and the city has captured their combined hearts, becoming one of their favorite places in the world to perform. Every season, they bring us a new show, with this year devoted to Knights of the Realm, and a Dame or two. ”To Sirs…

The First Annual Puppy Love Pet Parade took place yesterday at Parque Lazaro Cardenas. Thanks go to organizer Jeff Wilkie, a load of volunteers, sponsors, and to all the moms and dads of the critters that took part, take a bow(wow). On Sunday, February 15, the upstairs stage at Nacho Daddy becomes the setting for…

Between Mr Vallarta’s 12 contestants and the Gay Mixer at Studs, and my two lovely dates for the Botanical Garden for lunch yesterday, I am properly sated for now. A young, coffee-colored Cuban, Ricardo, won the ‘Most Popular/People’s Choice’ vote at Round One of the Fourth Annual Mr Vallarta contest that took place Monday at…

Robert Ryan was born in Rhode Island a while back, and Mary Porter in North Carolina, also some time ago. Their biggest connection to one another is singing professionally back in their day, but enjoying themselves more now, doing just that in the second half of their lives. They met here in Puerto Vallarta, and…

So, if you don’t play Scrabble for 11 weeks in a row, what do you get? A blockbuster, that’s what. Instead of playing Scrabble, Sharon Gerber Scherer, devoted all her waking hours to producing a Broadway Musical on the Main Stage at Act2PV. For 11 weeks. An unheard of amount of rehearsal time! Other producers…

Puerto Vallarta is no stranger to live music, but on Sunday, February 22, the city will witness something truly extraordinary. International headliner and former Broadway principal Kevin Anthony will present Kevin Anthony: Elevated—a one-night-only concert that merges Broadway storytelling, symphonic grandeur, and local musical soul, all in service of a powerful mission. More than a…

It is so lovely to be (semi-) retired; it has been six weeks since the last issue of Vallarta Mirror was published. Perhaps this month – February is pivotal in Vallarta – someone will come forward with the drive, energy, and resources to make a PV Mirror comeback. There have been a couple of nibbles;…

At 12:30 sharp today, we begin our Scrabble Tournament, the first one of the year. January’s tourney drew no takers, so we just played regular games. A full report tomorrow of who was left standing when the dust settles! And then straight to bingo at Nacho Daddy and from there to Coco Cabaret for Brian…

Fuchsia was Yvonne Kalman’s favorite color, so when invitations to her Celebration of Life dinner were sent out, it was requested that attendees wear pink, white, or a combination of the two. Casa Yvonneka, high above the city, became a gigantic bougainvillea for the evening. Enormous photographs of Yvonne in pink-glittered frames lined the entrance…

The year-long wait for Jordon Carnegie‘s return to The Palm Cabaret in ”Hedwig and the Angry Inch’‘ is over. A packed house – overpacked, actually – embraced the entire production crew in an emotional hug that would not let go. A thunderous standing ovation, two of them, in fact, as the audience tried to convey…

I wasn’t sure who the dreamboys in question were: the dancers from Kim LaRue’s Follies or the singers Seth Sikes, Nicolas King, and Sargento Dan. The answer is: yes! all of the above. I caught the middle of the three ”Dreamboys” shows on the calendar for The Palm Cabaret. The last one is on Wednesday,…

Every Sunday night at 9 PM, in the heart of Puerto Vallarta’s Romantic Zone, Coco Cabaret transforms into a high-energy celebration of one of pop music’s most enduring icons. The Madonna Tribute Concert, starring Waleska, is now in its third season—and it continues to raise the bar for tribute productions in Puerto Vallarta. This is…

Luna Rumba Productions brought together two of Banderas Bay’s finest musicians a couple of nights ago at Casita & Garden, and the concert sold out immediately after the announcement. Geo Uhrich, on violin, and Eduardo ”Lalo” Leon, guitarist, were mesmerizing, stirring deeply embedded emotions in all of us, yearnings for a primitive gypsy, nomadic life.…

I had the best morning yesterday at the International Friendship Club’s Home Tour. I know, I know, what took me so long, and I am sorry it did; however, I am grateful to the IFC for the opportunity to poke my head into four spectacular residences. I took so many pictures! And, bonus, I knew…

I always wonder, when I listen to BIG voices, how they would sound singing a lullaby. Most of them don’t bother, preferring to steamroll over the audience with power, often hiding behind the sheer force of it all, and lots of people applaud it. Ava Nicole’s second song at her Palm Cabaret debut was the…