New lights on the subject

We love eating at Fonda San Miguel -- and they always seem to have wonderful new touches to the interior. These light fixtures are new-- and really pretty.

Dead Honored

A small shop on West Lynn called El Interior sells items from Mexico and Guatemala. This Deay of the Dead figure was outside recently.

Mexican Consulate

The Mexican Consulate occupies a building just off Fifth Street and Baylor where a big typesetting company used to be (back when type wasn't set on a Mac!).

Breaking the chains

Jovita's, once a popular Mexican restaurant and bar on S. First, has been closed for a while.  In context, this mural on the side of the place has special meaning.

Have a Heart

The big heart day is coming. However, it wasn't Valentine's Day (Monday) that had us shopping SoCo yesterday. Nope. It was the prospect of a party Thursday. The invitation mentioned Mexican garb. And masks. At Tesoros Trading (window pictured) they not only had folk art hearts from many countries but...Lucha Libre masks which completed the costumes we had in mind. We also got some accessories at Lucy in Disguise. I think at the party all the wrestling we'll do will be is in food and drink lines because the only other customers on an early Tuesday afternoon at Lucy in Disguise were renting mariachi wear and sombreros.

Mexican American Cultural Center

This building in the Rainey Street neighborhood is a stark white vision. I haven't had a chance to visit it, but FFP and I walked on the hike and bike trail to this neighborhood the other day and got a picture of the outside. As my dear friend Juan from college used to say "brown is beautiful!" Only the building is starkly white! Not that some Mexican Americans are not white. Many however have darker skin tones derived from 'Native Americas' hues or blends with that and European Latin peoples and have skin tones that are darker, with dark eyes and hair. So I wonder if the building's finish was a conscious decision. Does it evoke pyramids built by native peoples in the country to our south? One day I have to go inside and see what the facility has to offer. It is certainly beautiful on the outside. It was much in the news when it (recently) opened.