October 5th, 2008
To all my dear readers, please take note:
This will be the last time I shall be posting my column in this blog site as you can all find it now in our new venture's web site: http://www.pvmirror.com/
All you have to do is download the entire paper and leaf through it.
I hope you enjoy it, and I thank you all for your steadfast loyalty over the past little while.
Below is the column that was published in the first issue of the PVMirror:
This is very exciting indeed – a brand new publication, a new format, and old friends all around me. Once again, I am surrounded by wonderful people with whom I have worked at some time or other during the past decade, until they gradually quit, one by one, to go on to calmer, more productive employment. And all this coinciding with the Jewish New Year, what a fabulous omen!
Before I forget, I want to thank all the readers of this column who have communicated with me over the last month, through my blog.
At this point, I think I should give you a little background history on the recent course of events. Personally, I met Jesus de Avila, our publisher, fourteen years ago, when he hired me to do some translations for him, well, actually for the company for which he was working at the time. He became my first Mexican friend, and what a wonderful friend he has proven to be over the years.
Jesus is the guru founder / owner of one of the first internet web sites exclusively devoted to Puerto Vallarta: www.go2vallarta.com That site comes under the umbrella of www.go2mexico.com which now includes all of the country’s major tourist destinations.
Before the PV Tribune (as it used to be called) went on line, Jesus and I decided that we would create a “subdivision” of go2vallarta that we called the PV Mirror, which would publish all the articles written by the Tribune’s contributors, just so that folks could keep up with us on the net even after leaving town. That continued for a few years, until the powers-that-be decided to put the Tribune on line. The PV Mirror went from being a weekly source of information, to a monthly one, without the Tribune’s contributors.
Before the PV Tribune (as it used to be called) went on line, Jesus and I decided that we would create a “subdivision” of go2vallarta that we called the PV Mirror, which would publish all the articles written by the Tribune’s contributors, just so that folks could keep up with us on the net even after leaving town. That continued for a few years, until the powers-that-be decided to put the Tribune on line. The PV Mirror went from being a weekly source of information, to a monthly one, without the Tribune’s contributors.
When what happened … happened, this past August, we went back to Jesus. We asked him if he wanted to put the Mirror in print. His response was “Whenever you want. Tomorrow?”
So here we are, a month later, with what we hope to make everyone’s favorite weekly local paper.
So here we are, a month later, with what we hope to make everyone’s favorite weekly local paper.
As our editor has said, the Mirror intends to provide our readers with more local news –in English- than they’ve ever had access to before. (I just hope I have enough time to translate so much for you every week…) I’ve been told that our distribution will be limited to Puerto Vallarta proper, at least for the first few months. And as I know the folks who will be doing the distribution, I can assure you that it will be done properly. Hopefully, now our readers won’t need to put their names on a waiting list at their condo building, or fight over a forgotten copy on the beach… The circulation will be high enough so that everyone who wants a copy of the Mirror will be able to find and get one. Now, that’s good news, isn’t it?
Although we are still in the so-called “slow season”, we will do our best to find out anything and everything of interest that is going on in PV. I have to tell you, we contacted the City’s Department of Culture a few times over the last couple of weeks, to ask them – once again, and then again- to inform us of any events they may have scheduled for the month of October. Need I tell you? We’re still waiting for an answer from them. It baffles me. I have never understood why it is that they don’t inform anyone until the day of, or the day after, an event. Do they not want big audiences? What on earth is going on behind the doors of that department? Is there anyone there or is the “Arte y Cultura” department just a plaque on the door? Their original web site has disappeared from cyberspace, and the one that replaced it hasn’t been updated in months. They organized a whole hoopla called the ‘Festival Vive Puerto Vallarta’ that began in August and purportedly continued throughout September. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, very few of us foreigners were aware of its events.
The movie that was shot here earlier this year, the one that was supposed to be called “South of the Border” and whose title was changed to “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” opened this past week. I haven’t seen it yet, so I couldn’t tell you if it’s good or not. I did see “Mamma Mia” while I was in Montreal. If it’s still playing when you read this, go see it! It is an absolute delight, you just sit there with a silly grin on your face throughout the show, tapping your feet and singing along to the well-known tunes. The perfect escapist summer fare!Well, that’s all for this week, folks. Please note that you can now read this and all the other columns you enjoy in the PV Mirror at www.pvmirror.com If you want to write to me directly, my new email address is easy: sheis@ymail.com L’Shana Tova to all my Jewish readers and until next time, may your mirror always reflect a happy, healthy you! Hasta luego.
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