Jaguar Speaks: Oaxaca’s Online Arts & Information Magazine

March 4, 2009 by Alan Goodin
The Jaguar at Temple. Photos by Ms. Linda Martin

The Jaguar at Temple. Photos by Ms. Linda Martin

Jaguar Speaks IS the Online version of Zocalo Magazine, a Literary Quarterly released in Oaxaca, Mexico.  We’re  looking for new prose and poetry by Rodrigo, Parmer Snider, Mary Ellen Sanger and photos and links.

There will be a new photos section (See Donna Ryan’s Webblog) where models and photographers can submit portraits and photos. Clothing is permitted but not required. Quality is the first choice. Color or Black and White, no matter.

Chelsie is a Cheer Leader. I understand completely.

 Check out Chelsie page and website (see right) Take this baby out for a test runCheck out Chelsie Miller’s website and blog (below). <http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=271549&id=669755120>. Copyright photos at her link by MoDeZinz Studio and the one in the dress standing in the field is Dan Doyle Studio.

This site will be constantly under construction.

To read the local news cut directly to The News, click on http://www.thenews.com.mx/home/tnportada_v.asp.  Here it is, without walking to the Zocalo and buying The News. To make searching for current events in Oaxaca, the latest happenings, check out Margie Barclay’s Calendar at http://oaxacacalendar.com/.

Check out the links as most anything you want to know about will be found in one of them. If not, let me know and I’ll add the news ones, like Chelsie’s photos and right now a good time to check out Jim Cline’s “Day of the Dead” photos. He is a great photographer.

See more of Oaxaca at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacacity-streets-shops/. 

Also check out the Wexler’s (photo below)Viva and Si Oaxaca at http://.si-oaxaca.com. ¡VIVA OAXACA!eWexler2706
Jo Ann Wexler and Robert Adler, library members and supporters for many years, announce the recent publication of their 2008 edition of Viva Oaxaca, now available at The Library for 80 pesos. The book is an insiders guide to Oaxaca and environs,featuring restaurants, transportation, medical resources for you and your pets, shopping, yearly events ¡y mucho mas! Although the guidebook will be sold at Amate Books and other venues for the same price, if you purchase it at The Library, 50 of your pesos go directly to support the OLL.The Library’s appreciation is as large as their generosity. If you go to their www.si-oaxaca.com you will get an idea of how helpful this pocket-sized guidebook will be when you’re out and about. (See photo below.  There is also a Oaxaca City blog at http://oaxacacity.wordpress.com/.  If you’d like to see a map of high altitude map of Oaxaca go to: http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=17.064636&lon=-96.727292&zoom=18 and on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQb3QyTVQrE&translated=1.

 Enjoy Oaxacas many sites as well as “Trip Advisor.” Other helpful sites include:

http://oaxacacity.wordpress.com/women-in-red-photos-by-al-goodin/

http://www.tomzap.com/coaxaca.html. Tomzap is MOST EVERYTHING you’ll ever want to know about getting around Oaxaca, Mexico.

http://librosparapueblos.com/. LibrosParaPueblos is putting libraries into the towns and villages of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. We are a small group of Mexican and non-Mexican volunteers who want to share our love of reading with the children who live around us. With the help of our donors we are providing a service that has never before been available here in the poorest state of Mexico: libraries for fun. This is a very worthy cause. Contact them and get involved.

http://www.economia.oaxaca.gob.mx/granvision/clogistico.php. The Grand Project, how the government will remake the Istmo into Mexico’s version of the Panama Canal. This is an interactive program so “follow the bouncing ball” type thinking is necessary. 

  www.mexconnect.com

www.mexconnect.com/mex/travel/astarkman/alebrijes/index1.html

www.oaxaca-travel.com

www.go-oaxaca.com

www.oaxacalive.com

www.allaboutoaxaca.com

www.oaxacainfo.com

www.oaxacaoaxaca.com

www.realoaxaca.com: Oaxaca, Mexico: an Expatriate Life (Insightful newsletter, Oaxaca information)

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g150801-Oaxaca_Central_Mexico_and_Gulf_Coast-Vacations.html

http://www.peoplesguide.com/ (An excellent web site about Mexico and Oaxaca)

http://www.planeta.com/oaxaca.html (particularly helpful for ecotourism)

http://www.oaxaca.travel/guia.php?titulo=img/tit/titg001.jpg&texto=txt/guia/guia.txt

Season’s Of My Heart’s Newsletter. Susana Trillings news- letter:  http://www.seasonsofmyheart.com/.

ROBERTA CHRISTI’S  Website at http://oaxacaculture.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/las-granadas-bed-breakfast-teotitlan-del-valle/

Linda Martin’s painting at Las Granadas B&B: http://www.lasgranadasoaxaca.com/paintings_and_rugs.html. Linda Martin lives year round in Oaxaca.  She came to Oaxaca from the US to escape the drab, cold winters. “Arriving in Oaxaca in 1999, I was captivated. Having come from the harsh winters of Michigan, South Dakota, Kansas City, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was sick of snow drifts, clogged, frozen parking spaces, and trees that lose their leaves for the long winter months. I had tired of censoring my schemes for migration. I got out my camera and my paint brushes.” 
 
\Dear friends of the IOHIO: Please click on the link below for updated information about the Seveth International Organ and Early Music Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico. If you are interested in participating in any of the events other than the concerts (for which tickets will be available at the door), please let us know as soon as possible.  http://iohio.org/festival2009eng.pdf

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March 2, 2009 by Alan Goodin

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