Movie Theaters Open Today in Puerto Penasco

Today is a big day in Rocky Point. Two of the six long-awaited movie theaters in the new Porto Mio Shopping Center will open for business tonight, and to say that Peñasquenses are excited about it would be an understatement.

Each of the six theaters in the complex will seat 150 people and will show first-run movies. The theaters will be operated by Cinemark (“Your Theater, Near You”), a new concept of high quality movie theaters for small cities that puts both national and international film within easy reach of a public that traditionally has to travel hours to larger cities in order to see the latest films. The best part? Theater tickets are cheap in Mexico, generally running in the vicinity of US$3.00! And word is that some of those movies will be in English with Spanish subtitles.

Beach Buzz: Movie Stars, Golf and more

It's June in Puerto Penasco. Summer is here. And so were some genuine movie stars!

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Real Women Have Curves), Michael Pena (Observe and Report, 30 Minutes or Less, Crash, World Trade Center) and Rosario Dawson (Gemini Division, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Girl Walks Into a Bar) recently visited Penasco for a couple of days break from filming a biography about legendary civil rights activist and Latino icon Cesar Chavez.

Pena plays Cesar Chavez, Ferrera plays his wife Helen, and Dawson plays Dolores Huerta, Chavez’s partner in activism and co-founder of what eventually became the United Farm Workers. The script by Keir Pearson (Hotel Rwanda) will focus on Chavez organizing “the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his ultimate goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.”

The crew has been filming in various locations across Sonora over the past two months including Hermosillo, Pesqueira, and Cananea.

How did they like it? America Ferrera tweeted regarding the above photo: "The bigness of my hair is due to the awesome beach trip I took this weekend with the cast of CHAVEZ to Puerto Penasco."

No G20 Por Peñasco- Yet!

-by El Gitano Peñasco, "The Peñasco Gypsy"

The year was 1988, the month was October, it was a balmy Sunday night around 9:30 as a small group of real estate and timeshare sales reps sat around having a few cold ones and talking story at one of the few cantinas in town, the then-beloved Señor Sushi’s in Cabo San Lucas.

Back in those days most people around the world, including folks from Mexico, had never even heard of ‘Cabo’. Our long story short is my wife and I first discovered this remote outpost while living in Hawaii and having spent many years in the Islands we both agreed it was time for a real adventure and off we headed to parts unknown.

Weekly Crime Report Por Peñasco!

-by El Gitano Peñasco, "The Peñasco Gypsy"

The calles here in our beloved Peñasco this week are again riddled with crime! But before we look at our own criminal elements and crime spree I wanted to update everyone on some other headlines and news stories I came across this week from a couple of communities up in the ‘Old Country’ (aka: USA).

There were two (2) more drive by shootings this week but the 16 victims were not killed (this time) and have been released from the hospital after an overnight stay. Also, but unrelated, there were 27 strong arm robberies, 32 confirmed rapes, 13 attempted rapes, 77 sexual battery issues, 182 burglaries, 89 barroom brawls, 9 bank robberies and 183 cars stolen.

Part II: Don’t over-charge in Peñasco (again)!

-by El Gitano Peñasco, "The Peñasco Gypsy"

In last week’s piece someone (“Anonymous”) posted a comment asking for examples of businesses here that I claim are ‘over-charging’ and although I rarely respond by posting responses to comments on Rocky Point Tides a couple of other readers (“Alan”, “BigD40” and “Eduardo”) did, which made me decide to write El Part-ola Dos on the subject.

First, like many of you not born in Mexico my wife and I have lived in this wonderful nation for more than a decade (and visited many times as well), during which time we’ve enjoyed the pleasure of freely traveling within Mexico from coast to coast and border to border, visiting many communities both large and small and sometimes living in them for extended periods of time.