Filed under: Arts and Culture, North America, Mexico The local vendors manning the kiosks at Mercado 28 - Cancun's outdoor marketplace - do not disappoint. They are ready to cut you a deal and almost seem to be acting in character when you step onto the sidewalk. One instructs you, "It starts here,"...

Filed under: Cigars The 2009 Tobacconists' Association of America (TAA) Convention kicks off on Sunday, March 8. Tobacconists and manufacturers from around the world will converge on the CasaMagna Marriott for four days of reconnecting, deal-making and of course plenty of cigar smoking. I'm currentl...

Today, NASCAR fans from around the country converge on sunny Florida for the 51st running of the Daytona 500. And we could think of no better way to celebrate this all-American event than by bringing you our own version of the Daytona 500 -the ultimate compilation of Spring Break beach babes on the ...

RTFA: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/04/m… MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area’s top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier, officials said. Retir...

Because the current Brooklyn-set season of MTV's The Real World has been about real issues—What are gay people? Can we poke them with sticks?—and nobody likes real issues, next season will return to drunkenness. They're sending the next batch of toned and tacky youngsters to Cancún. Can...

Hot Jews. Hot ideas. All cooling off in the pool and grooving on "open space" en Espanol. Seriously, I have got to learn more languages. I suspect if I knew Spanish, I would have been invited to participate in this ROI Gathering, held in Cancun for young, Spanish-speaking Jews involved in projects i...

When we last left your heroes, they were ready to depart from Cancun after enjoying their fabulous vacation. But an evil bad guy named Mexicana Airlines screwed everything up. That’s where we pick up our story. I think Mexicana must mean terrible in English, because that’s the only way I...

Sunday night - Monday: Red Eye I think the last actual week long vacation I took was several years ago when we all went to Cancun to celebrate Carlos and Kelly’s revisiting of their nuptials. And now, we’re back, celebrating someone else’s impending nuptials. We’ll get to tha...

Today my parents would have celebrated their 29th Anniversary. I think it is bittersweet that while we were on our trip to Cancun someone decided to celebrate it then (it could have been the room service that came with the celebration). Little did we know that Dad wouldn't make it to that day.I have...

Sure Tara Reid never went to college, but she played enough roles in movies as the all-american college girl, and that’s probably just as good of an education as American colleges offer. Reality is that half the population already think she’s some college graduate because they saw it hap...