By MoKa Hammeken* We intercepted Mariana Zataraín during one of her intense practices at the Municipal Auditorium just so we could speak with her about the upcoming International Day of Dance celebration, to be held for the third time here in Puerto Peñasco on Friday, April 19th at Hotel Peñasco del Sol. ….. “The presentation […]
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By MoKa Hammeken Los Rolling Rockies, Puerto Peñasco’s own wheelchair basketball crew, recently came home with a triumphant victory! Upon their return, the team gathered at the Municipal Gym with their trophy in hand, and donning individual medals for their second place finish at the Sonoran League tournament held in Caborca on April 6th & […]
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Semana Santa festivities in Puerto Peñasco may generally be associated with the sounds of banda, yet this year the electronic dance rhythms and “urgent mix of modern electronic” music of internationally known Infected Mushroom, Panoptica, and Black & Blonde lit up the stage at the Bonita RV Park along the Calle 13 on Friday, March […]
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Juan Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada of Puerto Peñasco has done it! He is the new WBO and WBA Flyweight World Boxing Champion following a 12 round bout against Brian “Hawaiian Punch” Viloria at the Fists of Gold event held in Macao, China on April 6th! Felicidades, campeon! Below we present an interview RockyPoint 360’s MoKa […]
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On Thursday, March 14, invited members from the local press met with Caborca Mayor Francisco Jiménez Rodríguez for breakfast during his tour through Northwestern Sonora, promoting Caborca’s 6 de Abril Fiestas commemorating the 156th Anniversary of the city’s Historic Stance. The Fiestas, under the emblem of “Millennial Heritage of Culture and Liberty” will last 4 […]
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By MoKa Hammeken (republished from April 2012) In Mexico, the conquest of land by the Spanish in the 16th century was done differently than in other parts of the globe; at that time, the Catholic Kings and their empire spread their belief as a divine duty throughout all the newly “discovered” land, which is why religion […]
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Republished from March, 2012 By MoKa Hammeken “Is it that time of year already?” This is what a friend exclaimed when she could hear the sound of drums and rattles, and perceive two men adorning masks in the distance. Definitely, time flies and the Fariseos, traditional figures from the Sonoran panorama, year after year come […]
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On Monday, March 18th, the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve put on a workshop about the Pinacate and Schuk Toak Visitors Center, directed principally to those in the area of tourism as a way to ensure people have sufficient knowledge and information to give out to both national and foreign tourists with respect to the location, values, […]
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