Eileen St. Louis

As I'm traveling through Mexico, I notice you can dance anywhere and nobody will stare at you like you are crazy. That's because music is always filling the air and therefore, anytime is the opportune time to dance. And not just salsa, or Mexican accordian but '80s Americana and Nirvana. Also, people are always selling food on the sidewalk out of regular pots and pans so homemade food is readily available, everything from tacos to tortas (mexican sandwiches), soups to spagetti (which here, is usually cream sauce with beans,) quesadillas to paellas (seafood and rice), gorditas to tamales.

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Welcome to the Rainbow Heights Club Halloween Party. Meet Bill the Vampire. Skip, as Big Mama from down the Block. Of course, everyone know the Flamer. Nat, the friendly witch. Our director as the King of Lanterns. Twin sisters, Kenya and Kanya Mashack square off fashionable costumes. Then off to the Day of the Dead celebration at the Center. Even Whole Foods does up their signage in celebration of the Mexican holiday. What Halloween could be complete without an '80s birthday party?? To close, we dance the night away at Bowery Hotel.

Marthalicia's art Process took place as scheduled at Five Points in Long Island City where astonishing tags covered a giant old warehouse and where new taggers felt free to create new art on the walls. At the last cooking class I conducted at rainbow heights, we made "power balls" made of ground nuts, dried fruit, bits of semi-sweet chocolate, oatmeal, brown sugar, peanut butter, maple syrup and dusted with cocoa, cinnamon or color sugar crystals. Hudson River Festival was complete with Little Netherlands at Battery Park and free water taxis to Governors Island where art installations bathed in the sun or inside houses. Shari and Kyrk took me to the Gizmo Gallery where latest in technology was on display and for trying such as the 200 pancake machine and 3D etchasketch. We attended the afterparty involving free brooklyn lager, planet earth on the biggest liquid screen tv and dancing to jams.