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April 5, 2006 - Issue #69
News and Features about Puerto Vallarta on Mexico´s Gold Coast
Tips and Topics on Living in Your Own Dream Location
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CONTENTS:
• EASTER WEEK AND EVENTS
• ART NEWS
• CENTRO CULTURAL WORKSHOPS
• ENGLISH AS A DIFFICULT LANGUAGE
EASTER WEEK AND EVENTS
Puerto Vallarta is preparing for an onslaught of visitors for Easter week, having just recovered from Spring Break. Families from all over Mexico will flock to the beaches to enjoy their vacations and the hotels will be overflowing. The snow birds are leaving in flocks to pay their taxes and get back to their summer routines.
More and more visitors are considering living here at least part of the year, as more condos and homes are springing up in all parts of the city. They are building a new bridge on the main highway near the Holiday Inn and the new high rise condos, to handle the traffic, and the new parking garage downtown is in progress, to be finished in a couple of months.
This is the last month for the International Friendship Club home tours, which leave each Wednesday and Thursday morning at 10 am from Hotel Rio Cuale, Aguiles Serdan 242. All profits go to the charities of Vallarta.
This is also the last month of the season for the Old Town Art Walks, every Wednesday from 6-10 pm so if you haven't visited the 16 galleries on the "walk," be sure to do it this month. Plans are in the making for next season and dates will be announced later.
Puerto Vallarta is home to many authors and has a large writers club. The most recent books are "Mexico's Hidden Gold" by R.D. Lyons, which will be presented at a book signing on Wed. April 5 at a champagne reception at Cabana Club, 109 Uruguay, on the beach a block down from Ley. Your donation of $100 pesos will go to Los Mangos Public Library, and you will receive a signed book. Later you can buy it at the Book Store, 334 Venustiano Carranza.
Yelapa based author Robert Hardin has recently published his third novel "Federal Offense," a courtroom thriller based in San Francisco, and also available at the Book Store or at Amazon.com.
Theater presentations continue this month at Santa Barbara Theater and the Blue Chairs rooftop theater, both in Olas Altas.
Afternoon jazz, salsa and oldies music by live groups from 1 to 4 pm at Ritmos Beach Café in the Romantic Zone. Call 222-1371 for more information or visit www.RitmosVallarta.com.
ART NEWS
Galeria Vallarta presented “Mexican Natives” for the March 29th and April 5th Art Walk showings, featuring Helen and Dimitar Krustev and Cristobal. Helen’s acrylics were greatly admired for her attention to the details of the native costumes and her ability to paint the fabrics, embroidery and adornments exactly as they are. Dimitar, who is not Russian, but born in Bulgaria and has lived many years in Mexico, is an incredible artist. Now in his 80s he still paints, teaches, does portraits and conducts cultural tours to Europe. Cristobal paints the indigenous people in a more impressionistic way and his oils are the perfect choice for the Mexican décor.
The next Art Walk show on April 12th will feature Manuel Zardain from Veracruz with his whimsical paintings of mariachis and musical groups, in a variety of sizes. His framed mini paintings make great gifts at a very low price. The last Art Walk of the season at Galeria Vallarta will feature a collective of all our wonderful artists on April 26th.
Watch the Vallarta Tribune for announcements of the shows at the other galleries on the Art Walk route.
ART SALE!
Galeria Vallarta has a big clearance sale of original art, prints and craft items in our upstairs gallery and at our Plaza Marina location. Many artists want to sell some of their existing works at savings of up to 50% in order to produce new paintings for the next season, so come check out the sale or request photos of your favorite artists via email.
If you failed to purchase a painting you liked during your last visit to Vallarta, please email a description of it to see if it is included in the sale... webart@prodigy.net.mx.
CENTRO CULTURAL WORKSHOPS
The Centro Cultural Cuale is located at the far end of the Isla Rio Cuale and is dedicated to providing the Vallarta community with cultural activities such as expositions of paintings, sculpture, photos, theater productions, free movies, concerts, etc. They also have a wide variety of workshops in the areas of painting, sculpture, engraving, drawing, photography, music, dance, theater and visual arts.
If you are in Vallarta for a period of time and would like to take classes from qualified local artists, request a printed brochure at the Centro Cultural on the Rio Cuale Island. It is a pleasant walk just past Le Bistro Café.
ENGLISH AS A DIFFICULT LANGUAGE
Travelers in Mexico often wonder why more locals don't speak English, as they struggle to communicate in Spanish, which is a much easier language to learn, since the letters always have the same sound. Read this and see how complicated English can be for students.
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
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