Magda Sayeg of Knitta, Please! is leading the charge in a full-scale knitted invasion of Mexico City-most recently covering an entire bus (imported from Japan) in some kind of colorful blanket. Can you arrest someone for being a hipster...

In preparation for the impending decisions about privatizing Mexico’s state-owned oil company, PEMEX, protest groups are actually holding public classes on how to look cool while rioting. No, seriously, followers of past presidential nominee Andrés Manuel López Obrador, (who...

A truck used to promote safe-sex and AIDS awareness recently went missing in Mexico City, and the organization that owns it feared that would be the last they’d ever see of their giant inflatable condom. Happily for Colectivo Sol...

After going through all the trouble of wrasslin’ with the Catholic Church to make abortion a legal option, Mexico City is now grappling with how to make it available for even the poorest women so that they won’t have...

We are consistently bemused by the disparate world views that exist between greater Mexico’s sexual conservatism and Mexico City’s sexual tolerance. Within a country that beats up its teenagers for wearing their hair a little gay, resides its capital...

A group of fifteen-year-old girls gathered in Mexico City this past weekend to celebrate life and love and lackluster demonstrations of gross materialism. Just kidding! A mass quinces sounds super fun: Dressed in colorful gowns and with hair coiffed...

Kat Von D and Nikki Sixx attend an event for Heatherette while holding tight to one another’s genitals. Tammy Faye Baker would like her face back now, kthnx. [dlisted] Have you heard? There’s a “Beverly Hills 90210” spin-off in...

Ian “Vampiro” Hodgkinson is the newest member of Mexico City’s chapter of the “Guardian Angels,” a citizen-run crime fighting task force. Vampires are sexy and helpful!: Hodgkinson, 40, who has wrestled professionally in the U.S., Mexico and Japan, will...

According to the Latin American Clown Association, (What? Why are you laughing?) Mexico has some 10,000 working clowns. Of those, about 3,000 are women. Add to that every clown in Latin America and the U.S. and you have the...

We’re never one to judge anyone’s line of work and if you kids ever find you have no other choice but to make a living by being a ho, we just want you to know that it seems the...

A Mexican horror-novelist was arrested in Mexico City today after the dismembered body of his 30 year-old girlfriend was found stuffed in his closet, his refrigerator, and…a cereal box? Cochino. Our condolences to the family. The police arrested the...

Mexican heiress/”actress” Issabela Camil, (her IMDB credits include an episode each of “Walker Texas Ranger” and the Mexican “Ugly Betty,” but her dad is Mexican millionaire Jaime Camil Garza, so who cares?), and her betrothed Mexican actor boyfriend Sergio...

Remember how Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard solved problems like frequent kidnappings, rampant corruption, and the failure of basic services like sewerage and water this summer? He spent fistfuls of cash for trucks to haul in tons of sand...

A strangely underreported story just made its way into our consciousness: over 10,000 people in Mexico City had to be evacuated from the country’s largest office building, (the Torre Mayor located in the financial district), yesterday afternoon due to...

Not satisfied with all their millions of gays, Mexico City is throwing open its big, gay arms to all the gays of the world. After the entire country won PlanetOut’s Travel Award for, “Destination of the Year,” the Federal...

It’s been reported that New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman—does it speak volumes about our media awareness if we had to Wiki him?— has a Mexican office peon up his sleeve when it comes to writing his weekly...

In a city where ATM-goers are held at gunpoint and asked to empty their bank accounts for instant ransom payments, where cops are too busy taking bribes to care, where sinkholes and water leaks and litter (oh, my!) are...

Mexico City has unleashed a fleet of Fridabuses in yet another attempt to remind everybody that, 100 years after her birth, the matriarch of bizarre self-portraits is still watching us from above. The giant pink buses are meant to...

• Indie band Ima Robot finds Mexico City to be “a vast explanation to the universe’s questions.” So, the weed there is good. [Intersections] • Fans on IMDB are discussing the most important question about the upcoming movie “Goya’s...

A bill was submitted in Mexico’s legislature this week to legalize prostitution in the nation’s capital, courtesy of the same politicians who legalized gay unions and abortion there. The Democratic Revolution Party swears it’s trying to regulate the sex...

The woman who dared not to pluck gets quite the 100th birthday bash in two days, when the centennial of Frida Kahlo’s life is honored with the opening of her largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date. The Palacio...

Mexico City voted April 24 of this year to legalize first trimester abortions in a controversial move for the capital of the historically, if not officially, Catholic country. The Catholic Church continues to urge Mexican doctors not to give...