19th Annual Stars & Stripes Tournament Adds Sammy Hagar
19th Annual Stars & Stripes Tournament Adds “The Red Rocker” Sammy Hagar to Its Saturday Night Themed Dinner and Live Music Extravaganza The Stars & Stripes fishing, golfing and music adventure in Mexico expects to net more than $3 million this year for Orange County youth organizations With the coast of Cabo San Lucas providing a stunning backdrop, the organizers of the Stars & Stripes Tournament are upping the ante this year, recruiting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sammy Hagar to headline the event’s famed dinner and...
read moreMake a Difference on June 12: the World Day Against Child Labour
Estimates suggest more than 120 million of the world’s children ages 5–14 are involved in child labor. This is an issue that’s unfortunately very evident in Los Cabos, where children are often seen selling gum and other novelties. Mexico’s labor secretary, Alfonso Navarrete, estimates that in this country alone, there are 2.5 million children being exploited. The International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency dealing with labor issues, on June 12 calls for: free, compulsory and quality education for all children at least to the...
read moreShoppes at Palmilla Hosts Cocktail Party for Gala de Danza
The Shoppes at Palmilla was the scene for a fundraising cocktail soiree on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 to promote the upcoming Gala de Danza to be held Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14, at the Papellón Cultural de la República in Cabo San Lucas. Gala de Danza was created by Christina Lyon, artistic director and a former American Ballet and English National Ballet dancer, and Lourdes Tellez, who knows the struggles that talented dancers endure and who now inspires local talent at her Danza Tellez Studio in San José del Cabo. Their mission is to...
read moreIn the Swing of Things: A Q&A with Quivira Director of Golf Antonio Reynante
Since its official opening in December 2014, the spectacular Jack Nicklaus designed layout at Quivira Golf Club has been showered with awards and accolades from some of the golf world’s most prestigious publications. To find out more about the area’s most acclaimed new course, I visited last week to speak – and play golf – with Quivira’s Director of Golf, Antonio Reynante. Can you tell me a bit about yourself, your career path, and how you ended up in your current position as Director of Golf at Quivira? My father got me involved in the...
read morePatrick Davis Country in Cabo Rocks Cabo—Again
A few more years of these songwriting festivals, and the calles of Los Cabos will be packed with young cabeños singing about love and loss and pick-up trucks…possibly while strumming along on their Gibson Les Paul guitars. Three nights of great country music from some of Nashville’s most talented singer-songwriters, a songwriting seminar and guitar raffle were among the many highlights of the second annual Patrick Davis Country in Cabo Songwriters Festival, which took place last weekend–Thursday, April 30, to Sunday, May 3–at Bar Esquina in...
read moreA Round-up of Current and Upcoming Events in Los Cabos
Visitors to Los Cabos during the next two months will find no dearth of things to do. In addition to ongoing seasonal events like Circuito Cultural in Cabo San Lucas and Art Walk in San José del Cabo, the cape cities are also hosting—or preparing to host—a number of high-profile annual events, ranging from music festivals and sporting competitions to large-scale charity benefits and nearly half a millennium old birthday bashes. Here’s a look at some of the most notable current and upcoming festivities: Happening Now 2nd Annual Patrick Davis...
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