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 Vallarta Living | May 2008 
Out and About in Puerto Vallarta
 Twila Crawford - PVNN
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Click image to enlarge | | Katmandu will perform a Sitar concert at 8 pm on May 16th at River Cafe in Puerto Vallarta. Tickets, including dinner, are available at the restaurant. | | |
Artist and author Pat Henry is hard at work on an art show she'll be hosting at her studio at Jacarandas 183 (between Madero and Aquiles Serdan) on June 6th at 6 pm. "All the color people expected in my watercolors is still present," she says, "but everything else has changed."
Called New Directions, Pat points out, "It is a total departure... oils and acrylics exploring abstract themes of depth and motion in vibrant colors are the culmination of a long search for greater freedom in my artistic expression."
The show also features a series of mono types from a recent workshop she did with Glen Rogers in Mazatlan. Wouldn't you know... several studies of Tango shoes - the dance Pat so dearly loves! Following the opening, her studio/gallery will be open by appointment only. Tel: (322) 222-4119.
Pat, also a sailor, is another local author (By the Grace of the Sea) who will present at the 2009 Writers' Weekend Workshop February 20-22. Visit the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group website at pvwg.com to register.
The oldest professional chamber orchestra in the world, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, will perform at the Hotel Krystal Vallarta, Salon Jalisco, on May 15th at 8:30 pm. Tickets cost $150 pesos and are available at the Municipal Tourism Office and at the Centro Cultural Cuale.
An action-packed theater season is ahead at Santa Barbara Theater, under new owner Ann Marie Danimus. A Children's Summer Camp soon gets underway.
Costumes of old Hollywood and the 1960's were abundant at the Last Party at Casa Kimberly, which was also a fundraiser for the Puerto Vallarta SPCA. Janice Chatterton is adding Elizabeth Taylor's and Richard Burton's former home to her collection of luxury boutique hotels. Another Vallarta era is ended.
Welcome to town to Pat and Mike Kelly who lived in Las Vegas and now are making their full time home in Amapas. Both retired - they look so young - Pat was a group publisher, and Mike was a real estate investor.
That wonderful chocolate store, Xocodiva, Rodolfo Gomez 111, with wonderful owners, asked me to test a chocolate and nut-covered ice cream bar being worked on. If all goes well, this ice cream bar should be officially available in June. It is so rich, it almost is a meal itself!
Met my visiting Louisiana friends, Bill and Joan Hess, at the beach. Talked to charming Marcos at The Beach House. It is doing well. You can find refuge this summer from the beach heat at the beautiful bar or on the patio for drinks and food. It took me all afternoon to drink a Dirty Monkey, as I recall its name, in a tall glass - most of the bar ingredients, pineapple juice and chocolate.
We've recently attended a 50's, a 60's and a 70's parties and still have a big karaoke birthday party for a friend at a milestone age. Karaoke introduces us to friends in ways we never knew! Andy and Vonnie Vanderyst's 50's party certainly accomplished that with us. We do wish Karen Phoenix would return to performing... here. She once sang with big-name groups and individuals. Karen now does a lot of good helping others in Vallarta.
We are looking forward to a month of dining with some of our friends at Vallarta's premier restaurants during the annual Restaurant Week, offering fine food at good prices. How about you?
 An award-winning journalist, Twila Crawford lives in Puerto Vallarta, where, in addition to contributing articles to BanderasNews, the Vallarta Tribune and other local publications, she writes Out and About in Puerto Vallarta, an informative column that offers inside information about who, what, why, where and when it's happening around Banderas Bay.
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