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The Amazing Race 16 » Puerto Vallarta

Updated February 22, 2010

Elimination Station is a web show on CBS.com where eliminated contestants from the networks highly-rated show, Amazing Race, live together to share their behind-the-scenes stories.

RoadBlockThe network and web show premiered February 14 and, this season, their sequester location is here in Puerto Vallarta. As you follow each of the web shows (over several weeks and months), you’ll certainly recognize lots of Southside locations and “characters.”

Each new episode debuts immediately after Sunday night’s Amazing Race episode. Morgan Adams, Tim Longpre from PVRPV and Gary Green coordinated all of the local tours, activities, transportation and housing at the unbelievable 24,000 sq. ft. Villa Quinta Laura in lower Conchas Chinas.

AMAZING RACE 16:

Eleven Teams depart L.A., where Racers find themselves dangling 120 feet in the air, battling exhaustion and their fear of heights in order to stay alive in the game, and one Team discovers that Brazilian currency will not get them very far in Chile….

The following videos are the after-show activities of each week’s losers.

QuesaDivas — March 4 to 14

NOTE: This is not a drag show.

The fabulous QuesaDivas — Vallarta’s all-female vocal ensemble — are hard at work rehearsing a brand new show that will open March 4 and run for seven performances through March 14 at the Bite Me! Beach Club (formerly the Blue Seas), located at #167 Calle Malecón, next to the Hotel Tropicana

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Blast from the Past is a lively one-hour show featuring nineteen memorable songs spanning the 60s to the 80s, including such favorites as Locomotion, Fever, I am Woman and Walking on Sunshine. The storyline tying all these wonderful tunes together revolves around fifteen vivacious women who won a national contest to appear on the pilot episode of a televised musical talk show that revisits romantic milestones and highlights in their lives.

Tickets are $150 pesos per person, and must be purchased in advance at the Bite Me! box office. For further information call Bite Me! Beach Club Special Events Mgr. Kai Brown at (322) 223-1521–ext. 234 (8 am to 6 pm)

PERFORMANCES:

  • March 4, 7 pm
  • March 7, 5 & 7 pm
  • March 10, 7 pm
  • March 11, 7 pm
  • March 14, 5 & 7 pm

Los Bambinos at Viva Bar » February 5

by Polly Vicars

Los Bambinos will debut a new show in a new venue on Friday, February 5 at Viva Bar, Calle Olas Altas 508 in the Romantic Zone.

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Left to Right: Giorgio, Immer, Luis (cousin), Carlos and Lazzaro

The popular group of four brothers and a cousin have crafted a new show with old favorites. They will cover some of the world’s most popular music groups — the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Monkeys, the Eagles, the Four Seasons and the Gypsy Kings.

They will also delight you with their incredible renditions of songs from Mexico, South America and a trio of their own compositions. There will be a surprise or two with two special guest performers as well as Los Bambino’s exceptional acappella.

The venue at Viva Bar has both lounge and regular table seating and is sure to see a sell out for this event.

For tickets, which are only $180 pesos, call Los Bambinos at 222-6412 o 222-4357 or Polly Vicars at 223-1371. Or e-mail phvicars @ gmail.com.

There will be full bar service before and during the show with the bar opening at 6 pm and the show starting at 8 pm. Come early for the best seating at this first Los Bambinos Show of 2010!

5th Annual Puerto Vallarta Writers Conference » Febuary 26-28, 2010

5th ANNUAL PUERTO VALLARTA WRITERS CONFERENCE– will be held February 26 – 28, 2010, at Los Mangos Library.

WE HAVE EXTENDED THE “EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CUT-OFF UNTIL JANUARY 31, 2010. AND, WE NOW HAVE A PAYPAL OPTION TO REGISTER ON LINE!! DON’T MISS OUT, REGISTER TODAY!!

The theme of the conference is “Creative Non-fiction: The Literature of Reality.” We have three outstanding featured speakers lined up:

During the weekend the conference will include a special video-taped address from one of Mexico’s favorite writers, Kathryn Blair, author of “In the Shadow of the Angel.” Workshop presenters will cover a wide range of topics including memoirs, narrative journalism, food, travel, and other creative non-fiction writing. The conference will conclude with a special Authors Book Signing and Beach Party.

Registration is $100.00 (US) per person and will increase to $120.00 per person after January 31, 2010. For more up to date information and how to register go to: http://www.puerto-vallarta-writers-group.com/Conference.php or contact Ginger Carpenter (322) 222-2537 or Margo Landry (322) 225-5507.

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS FOR FEATURE PRESENTATIONS

The Los Mangos Library will be selling “Feature Presentation” tickets at the door for $250 pesos for each presentation. This will be part of a fundraiser for the Library and there will be shirts and hats on sale as well.

The three feature presentations and times will be:

#1. FRIDAY, February 26, 2010

  • 5:30pm to 8:30pm, in the “Benefactors Salon.”
  • Video presentation from Kathryn Blair, author of “In the Shadow Of The Angel.”
  • Conference Keynote Speaker–Elizabeth Kadetsky–“The Literature of Reality.”
  • No host cocktail reception afterward.

#2. SATURDAY, February 27, 2010

  • 4:30 pm to 6 pm, in the “Benefactors Salon.”
  • Conference Featured Speaker–Marcos McPeek Villatoro–Writing and Filming “Tamale Road.”
  • No host cocktail reception afterward.

#3. SUNDAY, February 28, 2010

  • 11:30 am to 1 pm, in the “Benefactors Salon.”
  • Conference Featured Speaker–Dave Lieber–“If a New Yorker Can Make It in Texas, Imagine What You Can Do!”
  • Reception afterward.

Expo Vallarta 2010 » January 15

Few times you can appreciate a Collective like this, a manifestation of the Plastic Arts without precedent in Puerto Vallarta.

The Festival Cuale “Culture in Motion” invites everyone Friday, January 15th, 2010, to the inauguration of this expo at the Naval Museum across from the Los Arcos Amphitheater at the Malecon.

The exhibition ends Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 10:00pm.

Becas Valentine Classical Concert Under the Stars » February 12

BECAS VALENTINE CLASSICAL CONCERT UNDER THE STARS

Friday, February 12 at 7 pm.

LOS JARDINES EL PATIO LOS ARCOS, HOTEL WESTIN RESORT & SPA
Paseo de la Marina Sur No. 205

Becas

Tickets: 200 pesos (booked in advance and on sale now), or 250 pesos at the door.

Becas Vallarta A.C. is pleased to present once again this unique and sought-after event in its second year, which celebrates both academic and music education in our community in one of the most enchanting surroundings of Puerto Vallarta.

This year’s feature are another two of Vallarta’s own artists, the guitarist Mario Blanco and pianist Adriana Martínez.

Mario Blanco himself is well known in our city’s musical circles as a competent guitarist and trova singer performing in his own café “Blanco y Negro” in the Hotel Zone nightly. Mostly self-taught, this will be one of his first ventures into classical music – and what better way than to concertise alongside his daughter, Adriana Martinez.

Talented Adriana Martinez, on the other hand, was encouraged to become concert pianist by local pianist Antoine Lecomte. And finding no qualified piano teacher in Vallarta, she promptly applied and was accepted to the Institute of Fine Arts of the University of Colima where she is completing her fourth semester toward a Bachelor of Music in Performance with Dr. Anatoli Zatin.

Even while attending master classes in 2005 and 2006 with various intenationally known teachers such as Anna Poklevska, Mikhail Markov, Elena Vassileva… in Colima, Adriana is a regular soloist with the University’s Fine Arts Chamber Orchestra.

PROGRAM

Solo Guitar:

  1. Romance de Amor – Antonio Rovira
  2. Tango suite (Caminito, Volver ) – Juan de Dios Filiberto, Carlos Gardel
  3. Alfonsina y el mar – Ariel Ramirez.

Piano Solo:

  1. Preludio and Fugue No. 9 in E major BWV 854 – J. S. Bach
  2. Sonata K570 in B flat major – W. A. Mozart
    • Allegro
    • Adagio
    • Allegretto
  3. Mazurka No.2 in C sharp minor – M. M. Ponce

Intermission (15- 20 minutes)

Piano and Guitar:

  1. Estrellita – M. M. Ponce
  2. Concierto de Aranjuez II – Adagio – Joaquín Rodrigo
  3. Sonata in F major HWV 370 for violin and piano – G. F. Händel (adaptation for guitar and piano) – Adagio and Allegro

With such a novel and delightful line-up, how can anyone afford not to come and celebrate this promising Valentine musical soiree with us and show whole-hearted support and love for these dual worthy causes!

For tickets and reservations please contact:

223 46 06; celiatsascri@hotmail.com
223 13 71; phvicars@gmail.com
224 99 66; blm@prodigy.net.mx
293 10 38; marioblanco@prodigy.net.mx