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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-16
Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B Oaxaca has traditionally been known as an adult travel destination, steeped in ruins, colonial churches, museums and a tradition for fine art and handicrafts. But havin...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-16
Since 1978 El Mirador has been catering to almost exclusively Oaxacans, without help from the tourist dollar. It must be doing something right! There's the breathtaking cliffside open air view of...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-16
Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. Some say it's one of the oldest professions, yet it garners little if any respect from most of the population notwithstanding the tradition that has been its trademark fo...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-16
Alvin Starkman, M.A., LL.B. It took a reduction in Oaxaca's tourism and an increase in staff to bring La Biznaga back into my good books. While we never actually stopped patronizing the trendy, re...
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by Michael Ferguson - 2008-09-25
Have you been wondering, "What is that thing perched over on the 101 Freeway at Grand Avenue?" That's the theater building of new Central Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, al...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-26
Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Porfirio Santiago is at his loom, diligently weaving a massive 2 x 3 meter rug with traditional designs, from memory, with representations of Zapotec diamonds, rainfal...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-26
Where divergent religious customs merge Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Daniel Perez Gonzalez was a beautiful baby. His parents Flor and Jorge thought so; my wife Arlene and I agreed. Few are ab...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-26
Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. On my first trip to Huatulco in 1991, part of a driving tour throughout much of the country, the town was is its infancy, only recently having been created by FONATUR, th...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-26
Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. If you absorb only a minute fraction of what Nora's grandmother taught her about Oaxacan cookery over the course of about four decades, you'll leave with not only a fo...
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by Alvin Starkman - 2008-09-26
Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B. Middle class residents of major American and Canadian cities tend to have their favorite all-day Sunday brunch haunts...relaxed, clean, diner-style restaurants dishing up...