Front Row Center By Michael Warren Lakeside Little Theatre – Season 50 My review of Blood Relations will not appear till March, so here’s an overview of the current season and a look forward to the prospects for next season. Season 50 is quite a milestone for LLT and some special events are […]
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Murder In Mexico – The Series By Herbert W. Piekow John Scherber, the author of the Murder in Mexico series knew he wanted to be a writer at the age of sixteen. In college he majored in English and in graduate school, at San Francisco State, he studied creative writing where he wrote short
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Dear Portia Advice to the Lovelorn the Overfed and the Deeply Disgruntled Portia! Gracious! Look, Toots, how is it that we did not meet, if I have your bank debit card enshrined among my trophies? You pick the fast lane, Chickie, and I’ll be there with you. I might even return the card. I love
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Some Dreams Never Die By Randall Best If “the good die young,” like they say, then Tom was one of the best. I met Tom right in the middle of a good ol’ Colorado blizzard. Wasn’t anything but white in front of the headlights and I didn’t have the damndest idea of where I
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Guess Who Came To Live—In Our Car!? By Beth Berube As in years past, Larry and I arrived in Mexico for our winter retreat and enthusiastically hailed a cab at the airport. Sweat was collecting in the gully between my breasts. The driver had apparently removed the air conditioner and instead opted for a
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Regresar (to return) By Margie Harrell They say you can’t go back. “They” surely they never spent time in Mexico. Not only can you go back but time seems to stand still in old Mexico. On the drive from the airport to Lake Chapala, there is a special spot high in the mountains
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The “Wicked” Women Of Mexico By Samantha Ray Everywhere in Mexico one hears stories of the “wicked woman.” She has several names. One frequently used is La Llorona, the wailing woman. The second is La Malinche, the native maiden who became Cortez’ mistress and interpreter. The Mexicans consider her a traitor and her
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Guzman —The Cruelest Conquistador By Shep Lenchek Sealed off by mountains to both the East and West, and arid, desert-like land to the North, Northwestern Mexico’s central altiplano, was home to Nahua, Otomi, Huichol, Cora, Tepehua and Coyutec Indians. Only the Chichimecs, who lived in what is now the State of Zacatecas were warlike.
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Insight Straight By Jim Tuck Holocaust Accomplice: The Appalling Story of Breckinridge Long In the Middle Ages, it was customary for kings to dig up bodies of previous monarchs they disliked, clothe their skeletons in royal robes, and then try them for a variety of crimes. If such a legal proceeding could be instituted
THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) A WEIGHTY ISSUE Elder Dotter Cotton ball diet? At least I wouldn’t mind stepping in the cotton ball poop that resulted! OBAMACARE IS A BAD LAW Linda Steele This was a pretty good unbiased article, but after spending most of my
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