You are bound to hear a great deal about the Mayans this year. It’s been said that the Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012. That is not true. The world may or may not end in 2012, but the Mayans never predicted it. For a traveler, a student of history, or just a [...]
A good family movie gets laughs from kids and adults. The movie shouldn’t soar over the heads of young, or bore the… less young. Easier said than done. Jokes that adults find tiresome, might be a kids favorite part of the movie, content adults enjoy could be inappropriate for young eyes, or incomprehensible to young [...]
Last Sunday when the Lions won and the Bears lost, the book was shut on any Super Bowl hopes for the Bears. Scenarios in which the Bears enter the playoffs are now so improbable, that Sam Hurd is more likely to get into the Hall of Fame than the Bears are to get into the [...]
Do your homework! I was once a sixth grade math teacher, so I am used to telling people to do things that aren’t fun. I tried to do as little of that as possible when I was a teacher and I try to do the same as the columnist for Vámanos but I want to [...]
The holidays happen at the wrong time of the year. From Thanksgiving, the busiest travel holiday in the U.S, to New Year’s week, there is an excess of travelers. We all try to make it through the airports in a lump, like a big mouse in a small snake, and the airports have trouble digesting [...]
Born in Alabama but currently living in Kansas City, Jason Aaron is the comic book writer, co-creator behind the gritty crime thriller Scalped. Earlier this year, he announced that Scalped (which has already run four years) would end its story and its run at issue #60. During its run of over four years, this story [...]
Marjane Satrapi is best known for her autobiographical graphic novel work, “Persepolis,” which was later made into a film. Her latest project, “The Sigh,” goes in a new direction: Rather than stories from Satrapi’s life, “The Sigh” is a fairy tale about a woman in a fantastical world who’s trying to save her lost love. It’s told [...]
Australian author Max Barry recently published the science fiction thriller/dark comedy “Machine Man.” The novel is the second incarnation of a story he originally published online as a serial, one page at a time. Rather than a reprint of the online content, the novel “Machine Man,” is a distillation of Barry’s original idea: a future in which [...]
“El frio me a tormenta” or the cold torments me, is the chorus of Making Movies pulsing rock song Tormenta. It’s about missing your family and wanting to visit your home, and family at Christmas. That’s something that many immigrants in the US, who fear they will not be let back into the US, don’t have the [...]
Over the past month, since beginning work as a reporter for Extra Newspaper I have written a number of travel articles. These articles are in a section called Vámonos (“Let’s go” in English) and I am currently the only writer for that section. So far, I have written an article every week for the last [...]
