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Panama's Jazz Fest PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 18 January 2010 21:08
Another entertaining and enjoyable Jazz Festival has come and gone. This year, 2010, brought famous musicians from the US, Italy, and Mexico to play in Casco Viejo's Plaza Cathedral. The Jazz music started playing around 1pm and went 'till nightfall. Afterwards, the jubulent crowds spilled over into local bars and restaurants.
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Flacco and Casco Viejo Street Art PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 06 October 2009 08:53
Anyone who's spent the slightest amount of time in Casco Viejo is familiar with the scene: A man or woman, clearly intoxicated on some drug or another, stumbles out into the street. Some staggering takes place before he or she works up the courage, rather the equilibrium, to approach a visitor and ask for some change. "It's OK," they say when the visitor respectfully declines. "Perhaps you'd like a piece of custom artwork?" 
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Casco Viejo Art Galleries PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:30
Casco Viejo ArtBefore she passed away, my grandma called me over to her house and gifted me a blurry painting of a sailboat in a stormy sea. The style, if I had to call it something, was Impressionism and the canvas itself was encased by a cheap golden frame: the type of combination that could have been on sale at a discount department store down from $19.99. "Since you said you liked it so much," she said, "I've decided...well, I've decided I want you to have it." I recalled also having said I liked her Panasonic TV and her car, but bringing those up then would have been insensitive.
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Casco Antiguo's Monthly Flea Market PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 27 February 2009 10:56
casco_viejo_flea_market.jpgThe first Sunday of every month, the office of Casco Antiguo puts together a flea market in the main square of Casco Viejo. The plaza is decorated with large tents to block the sun and the open-air gazebo is blessed with a nice breeze that comes off the ocean in both directions. The first time I visited this flea market, someone stole my wallet from my back pocket. 
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Sergio, Take One: James Bond in Panama PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 18 February 2008 10:41

When it comes to sneaking onto the set of a major motion picture, finding myself on the set of the James Bond's new film ‘Quantum of Solace' was about as symbolic as they come.

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