The Romans coined the phrase “Omne vivum ex ovo” (All life comes from an egg).

Residents and visitors in nine North American cities (eight in the United States and one in Canada) are getting the chance over the next few months to immerse themselves in the life and work of iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo through a state-of-the-art, digitally animated light show.

When the promoters of “Nightmare Alley” describe it as neo-noir, they are not lying.

It took four tries just to find a place to build Guadalajara. Pedro Beltran Nuño de Guzman, a Spanish lawyer and Caribbean slave trader out of favor with Spain, decided that the best way to redeem himself was to conquer new lands for the Spanish crown, and he headed northwest.

Giving health tips in the Covid era can be precarious, as I recall from early in the pandemic when a cantankerous friend—and there are many these days—was incensed that his Facebook post recommending Vitamin C was taken down.

There was no drama, as with the transition from the penultimate director of the Jalisco Philharmonic (OFJ), Canadian Marco Parisotto, to the most recent one, Jesus Medina, who began at his post in 2018 at the time Parisotto left.