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Our overcast but unrainy days prevail; I love walking to an event and arriving relatively dry instead of dripping like a forgotten tap. Back-to-back blockbusters at The Palm Cabaret and Bar with Eva Jimenez’s spectacular tribute to Pink unfolded last night. With four dancers using every bit of space on the Palm’s expanded stage, Eva…
How I wish I could have bottled the energy in the air at The Palm Cabaret’s grand reopening last night. The kick-off Special Show was spectacular, produced by Chris Lopez (of course), and emceed beautifully and hilariously by Nacho Granados. After being in the entertainment business for 25 years, The Palm has raised their own…
It’s barely raining – a little chipichipi designed to keep humidity levels high and the dry-rate for clothes hanging outside at two days. One week today is the 15th and the traditional “end of rainy season.” That worked well until 2002 when Hurricane Kenna paid us a visit on October 25. I personally revised the…
Are you rested? You best be – Season opens tomorrow night with a star-studded cast at The Palm Cabaret with a charity concert for RISE Puerto Vallarta at 9 pm. However, to back-track a bit, Saturday was busy with a visit to Arte Vallarta Museo for their always fun First Saturday of the Month Fiesta.…
With a dozen questions in my head, I walked down to the beach to my fave breakfast restaurant, Langostinos, to meet Francesca Bavaro/Effie Passero. That was one of the questions. I remember a few years ago at Incanto, she asked everyone to please start using her real name, Francesca, as she wanted to leave the…
A shout-out today for my friend and colleague David Duvall on his 67th birthday. David has been added to Vallarta Mirror’s growing list of writers, and I hope you enjoy his perspective as much as you enjoy his tremendous talent as a pianist and soulful singer. May you have many, many more, amigo! The air…
A full and very happy house listened to Andrew Sands sing his fave tunes in his first solo show at Casa Karma last night. Accompanied beautifully on piano by David Duvall, Andy took us through a range of musicals with a couple of standards from Sound of Music and Les Mis and lesser known Jekyll…
Happy October! This month, one of my faves of the year will bring us the opening of The Palm Cabaret – one week from today. Traditionally, the Palm opens and closes its season with a charity event where all the “house entertainers” give their best on stage. And, to celebrate 25 years in the business,…
I have a very cool week planned in my head, AND it’s also on paper, so I won’t jinx a thing by telling you about it beforehand. That way, you’ll have a couple of interesting things to read with coffee heading into October, or it’ll be completely different. Let’s move on! If you are a…
I do not know how it can be Friday already. I swear Monday morning I got up to go to the gym and boom! Friday. That being said, a month tomorrow, my sister Patrice arrives from southern Alberta for her winter visit. Lots to do in the house before then but the time will obviously…
Two out of three ain’t bad – my mantra for yesterday. The concert at Casa Karma was canceled late in the day, so my concentration was on Scrabble and Bingo. Both went well. The first 2024/25 season bingo for Colina Spay and Neuter took place upstairs at Nacho Daddy. The atmosphere was giddy, with Rose…
Every Tuesday, Studs Bear Bar throws a bingo game from 9 to 11, but last night was also a fundraiser for the Vallarta Gay+ Community Center. Hosted in two languages by Drag Queens Wendy Warhol and Tia Gloria, both buried in gorgeous sequined gowns. The place was hopping with Casa Cupula and Pvrpv, which were…
The great thing about Monday is most places are closed to regroup from a busy weekend. For me, last night meant a(nother) cozy evening at home with my kitty, Bogie, my strangely fascinating book, and dinner while tucked in bed. There is nothing the matter with pistachios! It’s tricky to balance a book and one…
Goodbye, Summer, and hello to Autumn, which will be with us until just before Christmas Day, which means there are only 90ish more shopping days. Today, I am facing an almost insurmountable problemita. How can I write about M-A-G-I-C? We know it exists because we were all children once where every single we had to…
When I took over the PV Mirror almost a year ago, besides building a gorgeous website and teaching me a bazillion things, Kevin Feltner and I wanted to make the Mirror more than what it was. From many meetings, we realized the biggest puzzle piece missing in Vallarta was a calendar. Not just a list…
Get ready for an unforgettable night at STUDS Bear Bar in Puerto Vallarta! On September 24th, starting at 9:00 PM, the bar is hosting a spectacular Bingo Night Fundraiser: Ode to the Oscars to support the Vallarta Gay+ Community Center. With fabulous queens Tia Gloria and Wendy Warhol as your hosts, this event promises an…
What is this, day five of no rain? The humidity has been negligible and average hot temps for September. I will have to water my garden today, a first in 30 Vallarta summers. And no hurricanes, for which I am endlessly grateful; wouldn’t it be lovely if that continued straight into winter? Keep the good…
I had a quick, fast visit to the Coapinole tianguis with a swatch of peach chiffon that went unmatched. There will be other Tuesdays. As soon as I got home, I dropped my bags full of new projects-in-waiting, crossed the footbridge by the municipal market, the Isla, the next bridge, and passed old Rizo’s locale…
How was everybody’s puente (Long weekend, a ‘bridge’ in Spanish)? I spent all day abuzz from the night before. I caught some of the Independence Day parade coming home from Central Gym Monday morning. Lots of schools, the Red Cross, cadets, Civil Protection, ambulance personnel, firefighters, lifeguards, police, all the services that help keep Vallarta…
What a delightful reunion I had with the Kesslers last week. They have finally made the big, permanent jump from Simi Valley, California to Vallarta. They will take their time perusing the myriad colonias to see where they will finally end up, but there is no rush. Barry Kessler’s long-running, informative podcast, The Puerto Vallarta…