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Continuing my series of photographs from our trip to Guadalajara earlier this year (scroll down to see the posts you might have missed), today’s post takes a look at the Teatro Degollado, a monument of Guadalajara’s culture renowned for its diverse performances and artistic neoclassical design. But first, a bit of history… Despite the bloodshed […]
My daughter and I visited the city of Guadalajara, Mexico earlier this year and today we continue our series of photographs from that charming city (scroll down the page for links to the previous posts). In this post, we shine a light on La Catedral de Guadalajara or Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima […]
The City of Coral Springs Celebrates WorldFest 2020 (In Pictures)
The city of Coral Springs in South Florida, my home for the past 15 years, may not be as fancy as Coral Gables or as dynamic as Miami Beach but it’s a pretty damn cool city to live in. I mean, we have an art museum, performing arts center, sportsplex, aquatic complex, dog parks and, […]
With my mother visiting us from NYC, I was looking for somewhere interesting to take her and my daughter this past week. A friend of mine suggested the new Museum of Illusions in Miami being that it just opened this past December. What is the Museum of Illusions, you ask? Well, the new Museum of […]
So, I had one of my oldest friends visiting me here in South Florida for the wedding of his daughter this past weekend. We both grew up in the Bronx where graffiti was prevalent wherever you went. From tenement walls to building lobbies and elevators to public restrooms and just about every train you’d hop […]
Continuing with my series of photographs from the vibrant city of Guadalajara, Mexico (you can see the first post HERE), today’s post takes a look at the Hospicio Cabañas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the oldest and largest hospital complexes in the Americas. The Hospicio Cabañas was founded in 1791 by the […]
Guadalajara, located in the Western-Pacific area of Mexico, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The Guadalajara metropolitan area has a reported population of over five million inhabitants, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Mexico, behind Mexico City. It’s also the tenth-largest Latin American city in population, […]
Founded in 1929 by by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) officially opened on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash(!). It was housed in six rooms of galleries and offices […]
During a late November trip to Mexico City, I was looking to check out some live music on the last night of my stay (not to mention test out my new Sony A7III and a few new lenses). I came across a very interesting local band playing at the top floor of a nearby bookstore […]
During a short visit to Mexico City a few weeks ago, I decided to stop into the largest and most visited museum in Mexico – Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology). The building was designed in 1964 by award-winning Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, along with Jorge Campuzano, and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca, and […]
