Friday, September 1, 2017
Los Angeles to celebrate the diversity and richness of Mexico City (CDMX) in September
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Los Angeles to celebrate
the diversity and richness
of Mexico City (CDMX) \
in September
PR Newswire
Aug. 30, 2017, 04:39 PM
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Music, photography, folk sculptures known as alebrijes, movies and soccer will be just some of the free events on display in different corners of Los Angeles County to celebrate the diversity, cultural richness and history of the fascinating CDMX in September. As part of the program of activities for "2017: Año de México en Los Ángeles (MXLA2017 – 2017 – The Year of Mexico in Los Angeles)," organized by the Secretary of Foreign Relations in coordination with the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, September has been designated as the month of Mexico City: "CDMX in Los Angeles."
With the goal of celebrating the strong and solid historic and cultural ties that bind Mexico and Los Angeles, the Consulate General of Mexico and the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles declared 2017 the year of Mexico in Los Angeles, or "MXLA2017." With an extensive program of activities and projects, 10 Mexican states have been featured throughout the year, beginning with Baja California in March, Sonora in April, Puebla in May, Guanajuato in June, Jalisco in July, Oaxaca in August, Mexico City in September, and Colima, Michoacán, Durango, Morelos, and Querétaro over the course of the celebration.
The "CDMX in Los Angeles" celebration presents an extraordinary opportunity to showcase the strengths of CDMX as a global city and beacon of hospitality. With a splendid culture open to the whole world, CDMX is a promoter of major opportunities and events, the epicenter of Latin America's creative industries and a fount of incomparable tourist experiences.
The official ceremony for the inauguration of "CDMX in Los Angeles" will be held on Friday, September 8, at 9:30 a.m. in Los Angeles City Hall, and will feature the presence of Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti, and the Head of Government for Mexico City, Miguel Ángel Mancera.
"MXLA2017" accompanies the Getty initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an ambitious and far-reaching exploration of Latin American and Latino art in a dialogue with Los Angeles to project the existing connection between the creation of Latin American and Angelino artists, emphasizing the development of creators and the promulgation of their roots, as reflected in their pieces.
To promote the image of CDMX and its diversity, the program of activities has four multidisciplinary strategic axes: education, science and technology; culture and the creative industries; community activities, and economic and tourism promotion:
Thursday, September 7
Start of the Film Cycle and Opening of the Photo Exhibit "CDMX – Urban Culture in the 80s"
- Time: 6:00 p.m.
- Place: Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles (2401 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057)
Space is limited. - Additional Dates: Thursday, September 7, 14, 21 & 28.
- Time: 7:00 p.m. Doors Open: 6:30 p.m.
- Projection of short films of various genres to present the diversity, richness and unique characteristics of CDMX.
- Photo exhibit of Carlos Somonte on the punk scene of the 80s in CDMX, featuring bands from the time that frequented the street known as El Chopo.
Friday, September 8
Inauguration Ceremony of "CDMX in Los Angeles 2017" with Eric Garcettiand Miguel Ángel Mancera
- Time: 9:30 a.m.
- Place: Los Angeles City Hall (200 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012)
Press conference for "East Los Angeles Mexican Independence DayParade & Festival" with Miguel Ángel Mancera in attendance
- Time: 11:00 a.m.
- Place: Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles (2401 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057)
- Participation during press conference held to publicize the parade
Saturday, September 9
Opening of the Mexico City Cup Youth Soccer Tournament (Torneo de Fútbol Infantil "Copa Mexico City"), with kickoff by Miguel Ángel Mancera
- Time: 10:00 a.m.
- Place: Anahuak Youth Soccer Association. Río de Los Angeles State Park (1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065)
- Dates: Saturday, September 16, 23 & 30.
- Game Times: 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Community gathering to affirm roots, values and the sense of Mexican belonging through youth sports.
Inauguration of Photo Exhibit, Enamorados de la Mujer Barbuda ('The Bearded Lady's Boyfriends')
- Time: 12:30 p.m.
- Place: Los Angeles State Historic Park (1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012)
- Dates: Saturday, September 9, to Sunday, September 30.
- Time: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Group show of contemporary photography with a vision balanced between documentary and artistic work, offering a glimpse of recent efforts by highly celebrated artists among the most distinguished representatives of Mexico's current arts scene, showing that at the global level, CDMX is also one of the greatest and most effervescent capitals of the arts.
Closing Ceremony for Workshop on Cartonería and Alebrijes
- Time: 11:00 a.m.
- Place: Los Angeles River Center and Gardens (570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA 90065)
- Exhibit of works created during workshops on techniques for creating figures with newspapers known as cartonería and the creation of alebrijes given on September 4 - 9 by artisans certified by the Museo Artes Populares (MAP – Museum of Popular Arts).
Sunday, September 10
4th Services Fair
- Inauguration: 9:30 a.m.
- Time: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Place: East Cesar Chávez Avenue and North Mednik Avenue.
- Direct attention for citizens of Mexico City and Mexicans resident in Los Angeles, California, in connection with identity, health and cultural and tourism promotion.
Parade in East Los Angeles Mexican, Independence Day Parade & Festival
- Time: 9:45 a.m.
- Place: East Cesar Chávez Avenue and North Mednik Avenue. Participation in commemorative parade with monumental alebrijesforming the letters CDMX to highlight the cultural tradition of Mexico City.
Friday, September 15
5th Services Fair
- Inauguration: 9:30 a.m.
- Duration: September 15 to 17.
- Time: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Place: Bell Gardens Veterans Park (6662 Loveland St, Bell Gardens, CA 90201).
- Direct attention for citizens of Mexico City and Mexicans resident in Los Angeles, California, in connection with identity, health and cultural and tourism promotion.
Saturday, September 16
Alyosha Barreiro + Nok Niuk in Concert
- Time: 7:30 p.m.
- Place: Bell Gardens Veterans Park (6662 Loveland St, Bell Gardens, CA 90201)
- An original musical concept of a multimedia spectacle in a magical and lively fusion of the ancestral roots of contemporary Mexico. It combines moods, rites and melodies generated by drums, wind instruments, electronic sounds and the movements of dancers.
Saturday, September 23
Grupo Elefante in Concert
- Time: 5:00 p.m.
- Place: Belvedere Park Lake (4914 E 3rd St, East Los Angeles, CA 90022)
- A Mexican band from CDMX. Their music blends the genres of trova, ranchera and balada, using a poetic language charged with vivid images and rhetorical flourishes.
Friday, September 29
A colloquium on the Minimum Wage
- Time: 2:00 p.m.
- Place: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center (425 Westwood Plz, Los Angeles, CA 90095)
- Roundtable among experts from CDMX and the United States on the subject of the minimum wage.
For more information on "MXLA2017" visit http://www.mxla2017.organd for specific activities part of "CDMX in Los Angeles," visit https://www.cdmxinla2017.com/.
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Officers Stop Deer on Bay Bridge for ‘Toll Evasion’
Officers Stop Deer on Bay Bridge
for ‘Toll Evasion’
The California Highway Patrol took this photo of a deer on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge standing in the middle of an on-ramp early Tuesday morning. (Courtesy of CHP Facebook)
California highway officers say they stopped a
young deer on the east span of the Bay Bridge
“for toll evasion.”
young deer on the east span of the Bay Bridge
“for toll evasion.”
A photo published Tuesday by the California
Highway Patrol shows the deer on the bridge
standing in the middle of an on-ramp with a
deer-in-the-headlights look.
Highway Patrol shows the deer on the bridge
standing in the middle of an on-ramp with a
deer-in-the-headlights look.
The officer joked in a Twitter post that the
doe usually pays the toll but “today she was
a buck short.”
doe usually pays the toll but “today she was
a buck short.”
It looks to us like that “doe” is really a young
spike buck — if you look closely, you’ll notice
two small thin antlers. “She” may have had that
buck after all.
spike buck — if you look closely, you’ll notice
two small thin antlers. “She” may have had that
buck after all.
CHP Officer Matthew Hamer says two officers
were on patrol on the bridge early Tuesday when
the deer came out of the woods on Treasure
Island and walked in front of their car.
were on patrol on the bridge early Tuesday when
the deer came out of the woods on Treasure
Island and walked in front of their car.
He says after staring at them for a couple of
minutes — long enough for the officers to
snap a photograph — the deer went back
into the woods.
minutes — long enough for the officers to
snap a photograph — the deer went back
into the woods.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Some Solar Fun... great post Wandering His Wonders Eclipsing Our Last Day At Glacier Posted: 29 Aug 2017 08:28 AM PDT
Wandering His Wonders |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2017 08:28 AM PDT
Our last day at Glacier National Park just happened to coincide with the solar eclipse. This area will see an 87% eclipse, but we found out that 100% of the eclipse glasses were sold out at our remote location. So we made a solar viewing box instead.
 It took us several prototypes to get the hole just right, but it really did show the changing shape of the sun when we looked through the viewing corner onto the white screen we taped to the bottom. (We just realized this picture looks like Denisa is very hungry, searching for the last pieces of cereal at the bottom of that box.)  Mark took this picture of Denisa with the sun behind her, watching the sun become a crescent. We include it in the blog because somehow that crescent-shaped sun appeared on Denisa's cuff in the picture.  We tried to take pictures of the sun, and got a few of photos of the slivers of the sun as the moon moved across it. We noticed the temperatures cooled in our campground during the maximum coverage. We got to see it clearly when some of our neighbors let us borrow their glasses, so it was a successful eclipse viewing at East Glacier.  Once all the eclipse hoop-la was over, we made the short drive to our final Glacier National Park adventure. We had been checking out the kayaking possibilities, and decided the lake at the Two Medicine entrance would be great. So we inflated our trusty kayak, even though the wind had picked up and it was a little cool on the shore.  Mountains surround the water, so it is beautiful place to be in the middle of Two Medicine Lake.  With the wind in our face, we headed out on the lake. The waves were big enough that we found staying close to the shore was best. We also found that going slowly meant that less water lapped into the boat. Going slowly means that Denisa didn't have to row. This is turning out to be a great kayak trip!  Besides that, the water is perfectly clear. We could see the rocks at the bottom of the lake until it dropped off and the water got too deep.  We were looking for wildlife along the shore, but the trees are so thick it would be hard for anything big to make its way to the water. We did find this interesting duck--a Merganser--keeping guard.  She was guarding this fluffy group of pointy-beaked youngsters that were huddled together near the water.  It's hard to get a perspective on just how big the mountains around us are. Those are forty foot pine trees along the water, and they look tiny at the foot of Rising Wolf Mountain.  Another perspective of size for the mountains is the passenger boat that shuttles people the length of the lake. While that's a good way for most people to see the lake, we much prefer a ride in our kayak.  As windy as it was on the east side of the lake, by the time we rowed to the west end the water was perfectly still. Instead of white-capping waves, we had reflections of the surrounding mountains on the glass-smooth water.  Now with the wind at our back, it was an easy ride back to the shore. This is our last day at Glacier National Park, and these are our final views of the mountains we have come to love. With all the wild fires in Montana, we are also appreciating the blue skies that we have been blessed with here at East Glacier.  We have enjoyed some beautiful skies here in Big Sky Country. This was a view over our campground at sunset. We're actually looking at the eastern sky, as the pinks and purples spilled over to light up the eastern horizon.  It's been a great ten days on the east side of Glacier National Park, preceded by a fun ten days on the west side. But it's time to move down the road to new adventures tomorrow!  |
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