After the sun sets, Chilangos walk the darkened streets of Mexico D.F. in search of …. El Trompo! [Video by Urban Plane Media.]
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Mexico City science teacher uses his Spidey Sense (video)
Mexico City science teacher Moises Vazquez has found a great way to lighten the mood in his classes and get students more relaxed and focused. He dresses up as Spider-Man.
Why there a ‘Penis Seat’ in the Mexico City metro? (videos)
The Mexico City Metro has installed a “penis seat” in one of its subway cars, featuring a molded likeness of a man’s torso and penis.
Por que? They hope to get men thinking about the sexual harrassment Mexico City mujeres have to put up with every pinche day.
Trade magazine Adweek reports:
Mas…Why there a ‘Penis Seat’ in the Mexico City metro? (videos)
Bienvenidos a Mexico DF, ‘La Ciudad de los Perros’ (video)
In Mexico City, it’s a dog’s life. La Ciudad de los Perros is a video by Efrén (Freddy) del Rosal
Get your anime and cosplay on at Friki Plaza in Mexico DF (video)
In Mexico City (that’s Mexico DF in Español) you can get your fix of kawai, anime, manga, cosplay, Japanese food and more at Friki Plaza. True Mexico reports.
For Dia de Los Muertos: How about ‘The Mariachi Ghost?’ (video)
Over the weekend, Mexi-Canadia’s The Mariachi Ghost dropped this awesome Halloween/DDLM music video, named The Marigold, after the distinctive flower of Dia de Los Muertos.
Who/what is this band, exactly? The jefe explains:
Me llamo Jorge Requena. Soy Chilango. Vivo e Winnipeg, Manitoba en Canadá. Mi banda The Mariachi Ghost ha tenido un poco de éxito por acá y estamos muy contentos.
Pero Estamos por sacar nuestro primer video. Dirigido por uno de los mejores cineastas del mundo, Guy Maddin, con premios desde un Emmy hasta un oso de oro.
Mexico City shines in time-lapse, drone footage: ‘La Ciudad’
Es imposible describir a La Ciudad de México, este video es una mezcla del time lapses con tomas de drones que intentan darle una perspectiva distinta. [Música: Kinky – Uruapan Breaks; Dirección: Santiago Arau Pontones; Productor: Luis Arango.]
What’s for lunch? Tacos de barbacoa in Mexico DF – 32 pesos (video)
Brit expat TrueMexico (real name Paul) takes the Mexico City metro to get some authentic lamb barbacoa tacos and Boing guava drink. Two tacos, Paul reports, cost 32 pesos, or about $1.90. What are YOU having for lonche?
Lets get tacos de suadero at Taqueria Jalisco in Mexico, DF (video)
Even at 10:30 at night, at the Taqueria Jalisco – located in the car park behind the American Embassy in Mexico DF – you can get a killer plate of tacos de suadero (a cut of beef like flank steak) for $2.40. Our British guide TrueMexico takes us out to eat.
Tuesday: English vato eats tacos al pastor in Mexico City (video)
The host of YouTube’s popular True Mexico channel — he’s apparently a Brit (no name) living in Mexico City — goes out for tacos al pastor. The 1960s origin of the vertical rotary grill is a contentious Mediterranean issue with Turkey (doner kabobs), Greece (gyros) and Lebanon (shwarma) all claiming firsties. We don’t care. Nom Nom nom.
In Mexico City? Google Transit will tell you where to go (video)
When in Mexico City, do like the Mexican Citians do — with Google Maps.
Mas…In Mexico City? Google Transit will tell you where to go (video)
Mexico City street art is full of anger, longing, regret (photos)
Over at FUSION, Rafa Fernandez De Castro curated a nice photo gallery of street art in Mexico DF — beautiful and haunting and angry. Here are some of the photos she found that we especially liked.
Mas…Mexico City street art is full of anger, longing, regret (photos)
Random guy sings ‘Just A Gigolo’ on Mexico City subway (3 videos)
Just another day, just another gigolo on the subway in Mexico DF — with music. How does this guy’s performance rate compared to the David Lee Roth derivative cover version — or Louis Prima’s Just A Gigolo totally happening classic original? Check out their vids here:
Mas…Random guy sings ‘Just A Gigolo’ on Mexico City subway (3 videos)
Mexican biologists wonder: Where have all the axolotls gone?
You know those uber-cute salamander-like axolotls who are native to the lake system in and around Mexico City? They’re gone.
Growing up to a foot long (30 cm) and known as the “water monster” or the “Mexican walking fish”, its only natural habitat is the Xochimilco network of lakes and canals, which are suffering from pollution and urban sprawl.
Biologist Armando Tovar Garza, of Mexico’s National Autonomous University, described an attempt last year by researchers to try to net axolotls in the shallow, muddy waters of Xochimilco as “four months of sampling zero axolotls”.
Mas…Mexican biologists wonder: Where have all the axolotls gone?