Let’s hear it for those spacious skies and amber waves of grain, baby!
LOS ANGELES — Your faithful correspondent returns to the United States today, for a month-long vacation/family obligation tour. The Mexican school year is over, so it was a logical time to head back. But as it happens, this is also the week when we raise […]

The drama. The bodyguards. The babes. The reality-defying plot twists.
All the finest ingredients combine and then explode in a cloud of jealousy and betrayal every weekday at 2 p.m., when Azteca 13 broadcasts this compelling train-wreck of a telenovela, Amor en Custodia (Love in Custody). It’s so bad, so melodramatic, and so cheesy as to […]

I should have been lecturing this particular English student about his obnoxious habit of not doing his homework, but honestly, I was more interested in his shirt, which featured the English phrase “Molars Forest” in giant capital letters.
What exactly was that all about, I wanted to know. Who/what is Molars Forest? And why is it […]

Just imagine the uproar if a drug kingpin knocked off an American police chief coming home from work. Think of the live continuing news coverage, the outrage, the congressional hearings, the candlelight vigils, the marches, and the fiery speeches laced with a thousand never agains. 
But here in Mexico, sadly, this sort of incident is becoming so […]

Imagine the combined popularity of Elvis and Madonna, then add the staying power of The Beatles. That’s Vicente Fernandez, the Mexican crooner who is knocking at 70’s door, but doing it with vigor and immense popularity.
These days, it’s darn near impossible to walk down a street without hearing his latest smash hit, “Estos Celos” (This Jealousy), a long […]