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The writing of Mexico City-born author and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, 65, has taken a radical turn.After the overwhelming success of his novels and screenplays, like Amores perros, which paints a stark picture of a savage Mexico City, Arriaga recently published a new novel, Extranas, a dizzying tale of creatures that are somewhere in between fantastic and real, grotesque and poetic, and the narrative immerses the reader in a world where scientific advances set the pace.

Designed by Robert Hutchison Architecture and Javier Sanchez Arquitectos, the Rain Harvest Home, or Casa Cosecha de Lluvia is nestled in the rural town of Temascaltepec, which lies about 140 kilometers west of Mexico City.The family nature retreat features an extensive system for capturing and reusing rainwater!

It's that time of year: On Tuesday, June 20th, the folks behind the World's 50 Best will once again try to sum up the best of the entire globe's culinary output in a ranked listicle.Here's what you need to know.What to expect from the World's 50 Best 2023:
There will be a new No. 1 restaurant.In 2019, the organization announced a rule change that after a restaurant ascends to the No. 1 spot, it becomes ineligible and is removed from the list in future years (except for 2021, in which Noma clinched the top honors because it was operating in a new location).

Soho House, a luxury, members-only club offering amenities like private pools, restaurants, and spas with locations worldwide is coming to Charleston in 2024, the company confirmed on Wednesday, June 14.It will take over 161 East Bay Street in downtown Charleston, a space formerly home to craft beer brewery Lagunitas.

If you wouldn't dream of going on vacation without your pet, you're in luck.Hotels and resorts are increasingly catering to them with new packages and amenities (or pet-menities, as Virgin Hotels puts it), be it an in-room dining menu for dogs with a beef woofslider at Andaz Mexico City Condesa, or a posh pet blanket made of recycled wool from one of the Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts in Britain.

Watches and Wonders Geneva proved one thing earlier this spring when it attracted 43,000 visitors, almost twice its 2022 attendance: The watch fair is back.Many in the industry had voiced doubts that such costly events were worth the investment even before the disruption of the pandemic.But opinions seem to have changed, and the rest of the 2023 calendar is dotted with the likes of Singapore Watch Week, Geneva Watch Days and the Salon Internacional Alta Relojeria in Mexico City.

Image Le Rhodia, a new cafe-restaurant in Paris's Bourdelle Museum, features family-style tables with ceramic bases by the Brittany-based artist Cyril Dennery and handmade rice paper lighting fixtures by the designer Celine Wright.Credit...Marielle Gaudry This spring, the recently renovated Bourdelle Museum in Paris's Montparnasse district opened a luminous new cafe-restaurant, Le Rhodia, named after the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's daughter.

For as long as she can remember, Martha Armenta felt invisible in the only country she knew as home.She grew up in Little Village, where her parents settled after moving to Chicago from Sinaloa, Mexico, escaping poverty and violence, she said.When she learned in high school she was in the U.S. without legal permission, she acknowledged that the dreams her parents sacrificed for were going to be harder to achieve.

Des Plaines police are investigating an early Tuesday morning fire at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe as possible arson.The blaze affected an outdoor chapel, art and statues, as well as the plaza area, according to a statement from the shrine.Police officers responded to reports of a fire at the Catholic shrine, 1170 N. River Road, shortly after 2:30 a.m.

Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her.In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, it found her guilty of homicide with "excessive use of legitimate defense."

It's been a short while since I've returned from the sultry Oaxacan coastline of Puerto Escondido, Mexico, after attending the third annual Mexico Design Fair.Unexpected plumes of volcanic ash blanketing Mexico City delayed arrivals and departures, foiling plans professional and personal alike.In hindsight, the pause offered a opportune moment to reflect upon both the parts and the sum of an event devised to spotlight the best of contemporary Mexican design, one as warmly memorable as the Pacific sunset that played backdrop for the entirety of our stay.

It's time for Game 2 between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies.After a delightful 6-3 win on Monday, the Giants have an opportunity to begin a winning streak once more, and also secure a series victory.Those things would be nice!We're in for a treat, as this is a fantastic pitching matchup.

When Casey Schmitt homered in his second at-bat on Tuesday, as part of a two-hit day that propelled the San Francisco Giants to a win over the Washington Nationals, it was a great story.I wrote about how it felt like the door opening to the next era of Giants baseball, and I stand by that, but it really didn't tell us anything about Schmitt.

Patriots The Patriots will open the season with a home matchup against the NFC champion Eagles on Sept. 10.The Patriots released their schedule for the upcoming 2023 season on Thursday, which will open at Gillette Stadium with a showdown against the NFC champion Eagles and an anticipated return for a now-retired Tom Brady on Sunday, Sept. 10.

After nearly 15 boisterous years of slinging tacos and tequila in River North, Mercadito is expanding its horizons with the debut of a new subterranean cocktail lounge and restaurant.The downtown stalwart has unveiled Copal, a moody and low-lit lair where chefs are highlighting a Japanese culinary influence on the cuisines of the Yucatan Peninsula.

After a four-year hiatus, the New England Patriots will play another international game during the 2023 regular season.As was announced by the NFL on Wednesday, they will take on the Indianapolis Colts in Frankfurt, Germany.Patriots team captain David Andrews knows that the game on Nov. 12 will be a special event for everyone involved.

The dates on the 2023 calendar are now written in ink for the New England Patriots.Head coach Bill Belichick's roster is set to open the regular season at Gillette Stadium against the reigning NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 10, the NFL announced Thursday evening.Aside from summer exhibitions, the 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff will mark the earliest the sides have crossed paths.

The NFL has yet to release its 2022 schedule, but the first rumors start coming in.The latest: the New England Patriots ' opponent for their first ever game in Germany in November.Per a report by Max Schrader of German newspaper Bild, the Patriots will play host to the New Orleans Saints.The game will take place Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt on either Nov. 12 or Nov. 19.

The dangerous haze hovering over parts of the Northeast and Midwest on Wednesday morning was highly unusual for the United States.For many people around the world, it would be somewhat normal.Cities across Asia, Africa and Latin America have been so polluted for so long that air-quality readings like the ones expected across parts of New York State on Wednesday which is expected to pose risks for people with respiratory problems would not be seen as particular cause for alarm.

It's Never Too Late is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms.When Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip met more than two decades ago, it was best friends at first sight.They never imagined that, one day, their friendship would be featured on news shows, get joked about on Saturday Night Live and stop people in their tracks in a Tokyo train station to exclaim, Oh my God, you're the TikTok traveling grannies!

Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has created a brick music school in Nacajuca, Mexico that includes two structures and a lofty, cantilevered roof made of coconut wood.The Mexico City-based collective completed the 1,325-square metre (120-square metre) Casa de Música in 2021.The facility is part of the state's urban development program and "provides a space for social gatherings with warm materials and natural ventilation, while musicians benefit from spacious, isolated classrooms with state-of-the-art equipment," C733 told Dezeen.

For our latest lookbook, we've picked eight interiors that are blanketed in shades of red that include an office in Belgium, a bar toilet in London and a mansion in Mexico.The colour red is most commonly associated with activity, passion, sexuality, love and joy.In this lookbook Dezeen has highlighted ways in which interior designers and architects have used the colour in different interior settings.

On a recent vacation in Careyes, Mexico, Sara Beltran scoured the beach looking for beautiful seashells for her Dezso jewelry line.And finding an unusual one, she thinks, is like discovering a great diamond.Amazing shells are hard to find, Ms. Beltran, a New York-based designer, said.You can't buy them or create them; it's a gift from Mother Nature.

A subterranean gallery carved into a sand dune and a treehouse-style art museum feature in our latest lookbook, which collects striking gallery interiors from around the world.Art galleries are specifically designed as spaces for showcasing artworks such as sculptures and paintings.As a result, they are often characterised by neutral and minimalist interiors so as not to divert attention from the objects on display.

One thing I do when watching San Francisco Giants games - especially when I'm then writing about them - is I try to identify a narrative as early as possible.It's amazing to me how often the story or theme of a game, in just the first inning, pops out of the ground like a gopher and makes itself known.

It was a day of firsts for the San Francisco Giants in their 7 - 5 win over the Miami Marlins.A day after Patrick Bailey stroked his first hit in the Majors, the catcher launched his first home run: a no-doubt tater that left his bat at 107 MPH to knot the game up at 1 run apiece in the 2nd.He also sac bunted in an insurance run in the 6th.

Lots happened over the weekend for the San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball affiliates.Let's take a look at it.Link to the 2023 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions are the positions played in that game.AAA Sacramento (15-18)
Saturday was the most exciting day that the River Cats offer: LHP Kyle Harrison (No. 1 CPL) day.

Sean Manaea claimed his first win in a San Francisco Giants uniform Friday night as the bats put the ball in play against Milwaukee Brewers Corbin Burnes, collecting a 6 - 4 win.Manaea has struggled with consistency to start the 2023 season.Though his velocity on his fastball is up, he's had problems locating it or working in his secondary pitches effectively.

Bob Levey/Getty Images Preventing runs is the name of the game.And the Giants are failing at it right now."The whole trip was very grindy, I guess.It's been a mental grind, it's been a physical grind.I think three-quarters of our clubhouse has the s-ts," pitcher Logan Webb said Wednesday."It's been a mental and physical grind.

An alert level was raised on Sunday for a volcano in Central Mexico that was spewing ash and smoke, prompting officials to close schools and public parks, and to prepare for the possibility of evacuations.The National Disaster Prevention Center of Mexico said on Sunday that the alert level was being raised to what is known as Phase 3, which is just shy of an evacuation order, for the area around the volcano, Popocatepetl, in the central region of the country.

The migrants climbed into the rusted wagons of a freight train three days ago, hoping this would be the last leg of their seemingly endless journey to America.Now, with the Chihuahuan desert sun bearing down, exhaustion gave way to optimism: They were closing in on the border.A cheer erupted.Adolescents waved at the passing cars.

At art fairs, people look too quickly, said Jason Poirier dit Caulier, the founder and director of the Plus-One Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium.Here they take a bit more time.They almost want to touch, he added.Poirier dit Caulier was standing in a branch of his dealership, in front of an ingeniously illusionistic painting by the Belgian artist Ritsart Gobyn, 37, that attracted plenty of up-close admiration during Antwerp Art Weekend, an annual celebration of the city's contemporary artists and gallerists that concluded on Sunday.

The fruity chile odor filled my nostrils as I took a sip of the mezcal that Juana Amaya Hernandez had poured for me.I was drinking it out of a chile de agua, a large lime-colored chile local to Oaxaca, its rim dipped in homemade sal de gusano, a spice made with ground agave worms, and it tickled my tongue with its tinny flavor.

A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, warned on Tuesday that when the free press erodes, democratic erosion almost always follows.He spoke at a United Nations event honoring the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, at a time when fatal attacks on journalists have increased especially in the war in Ukraine and in Latin America and a record number have been imprisoned, according to a watchdog group.

Joshua Roizman is a Gen Zer who started his career as a remote employee.He was excited about the freedom, but says the lack of in-person connection is hurting his career.Roizman tried to make connections by moving abroad and meeting up with other remote workers.This is an as-told-to essay based on an interview with Joshua Roizman, a 25-year-old Gen Z employee working a sales job at a software-development company, which is fully remote.

A wealth of research shows that air pollution is harming our brain health, including our mental health and our risk of dementia.A new report has outlined what we should do next.Prof Frank Kelly of Imperial College London, a former chair of the UK Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution, said: Dementia is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, global challenge for health and social care in the 21st century.

By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet-
It's a nonstop 4 and 1/2 hour flight, but Mexico City is a world away from San Francisco.At more than 7,300 feet, the high-altitude metropolis of 22 million seems like it would be a teaming surge of humanity.But, surprise: it's not.This sophisticated city charms with neighborhoods of green gardens and purple jacaranda trees lining the streets, alongside cafés on every corner.

For the second year in a row, a bar in New York City's Lower East Side has won the top honor in the annual North America's 50 Best Bars ranking, an offshoot of the World's 50 Best Restaurants list.This year's winning bar, Double Chicken Please, originally began as a pop-up in 2017, before moving into a permanent brick-and-mortar space in 2020, located on Allen Street just off of Delancey.

Created by Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Blind Camera is an AI powered device that generates pictures from sound instead of light while preserving the experience of using a point-and-shoot camera.Its horn is aimed at a sound and with the push of a button it converts it into an image.The resulting 'photo' is indexical of the surrounding soundscape and not of the scene in front of the camera.

That guava tree in their garden wasn't just an ordinary tree.Natalia Lafourcade's parents had just split up and her mother needed money urgently.Then, that tropical tree with its simple, oval leaves began to bear unusual fruits.We had little money and the tree kept us going.Every summer, there were enormous quantities of guavas growing We had to lay out a net to catch them all.

You'd think that after the current flurry of wild culinary inventions, wacky international fusions, and revivals of obscure historic dishes, there'd be nothing left to surprise us.Yet food can still astonish, as it did me recently at Panzon, a new bar at 23 Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn.The restaurant is located on the last block of the avenue, just before it dives into the East River as the lights of Manhattan twinkle merrily across the water.

The 2023 NFL schedule was released last week and there were some questions about the Thursday night season opener at Arrowhead Stadium.The last time that quarterbacks Jared Goff and Patrick Mahomes were on the same field was in 2018.It was a Week 11 Monday night game between the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs.

A new report says there was a sharp increase in violence at abortion clinics in 2022, the year when Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending the federal right to an abortion.A disproportionate increase occurred in states that protect abortion rights, according to the National Abortion Federation, a professional association for abortion providers.

The three muralists were appraising a wall on Alabama Street last week, when one noticed a young person on a skateboard watching them from a distance.It was 19-year-old Ángel Velazquez, who was skating home when he spotted the trio planning a mural at the Latino Task Force Hub near 19th and Alabama streets.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a long international presence, through free agency and player development, along with playing outside of the United States.They recently were reported as being in talks to play games in Paris during the 2025 MLB season.Their most recent journey to an international city was participating in the 2018 Mexico Series at Estadio de Béisbol in Monterrey.

Time for Game 2 of the home series between the San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers.After winning Game 1 by a score of 6-4, the Giants are in position to win their second straight series if they can take this game ... and their second straight series against two very good teams, I might add.A win tonight would also give the Giants a four-game winning streak.

Alex Pavlovic tweeted out and the team's site confirms that the San Francisco Giants have placed Brandon Crawford and Mike Yastrzemski on the IL.We saw the Yaz move coming, and while the length of that injury looks to be "indefinite," the Giants didn't suggest that Crawford's fell into the same category.

After nearly a decade training in San Diego, Saul Alvarez opted to prepare for his next bout in Guadalajara, Mexico, where it will take place.The sentimental part of Alvarez, a Guadalajara native nicknamed Canelo, welcomed the homecoming for his prizefight Saturday against John Ryder.Before he started boxing, a grade-school-aged Alvarez sold Popsicles for pocket change on the city's streets.

The Boston area doesn't make it easy for someone to try something new - truly new - in the city's restaurant scene.High rent and crippling liquor license costs translate to staggering start-up bills for small businesses, which in turn encourages lower-risk moves like the same type of restaurant done again and again.

Peso Pluma performs with Becky G at the Coachella Stage during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella Peso Pluma has entered his own era.He is the future that Regional Mexican music labels have been dreaming about for the past four or five years.

When Roosevelt Tamale Parlor closed in September 2022 it took 100 years of Mission District culinary history with it.Now there are would-be inheritors to that lineage taking over the lease at 2817 24th Street.The San Francisco Standard reports newcomer Tacos del Barrio will open on May 5 from co-owners Hector Ordaz and Norberto Granillo, two childhood friends from Mexico City.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials celebrated Wednesday the announcement that the country finally developed its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

One of DC's most hotly anticipated openings is finally here.High-end Japanese food hall Love, Makoto opens today in the Capital Crossing development between Chinatown and Union Station.It contains three initial restaurants: Dear Sushi featuring new- and old-school omakase; Beloved BBQ, a Japanese-style steakhouse with tabletop grills; and Hiya Izakaya, which specializes in grilled skewers and highballs.

When the queen of Carnaval finished her breathtaking performance, the organization's Rodrigo Durán took the stage."Let the game begin," he said.A giant flatscreen to stream the ballgame towered over Alabama Street near the Latino Task Force Hub, and rows of white fold-up chairs were set up right in front.