Our monthly event to add a little levity for locals as well as guests is the Best of the Best awards that are new, fun, and just for you! Formerly known as Best Shirt Night, this event has been a staple happening on the first Friday of every month in [……]
Many of us remember the films “The Incredible Journey” and “Lassie Come Home,” featuring pets that found their way home after overcoming incredible odds, proving that dogs know a lot more than we think. Akumal now has its own heart-warming story of an incredible dog that found its way home [……]
1 Pablo Díaz 2 Mark Miller 4 Jacquelyn & Jordan Dey, Anniversary 4 Juan Antonio Huerta 5 Joyce Hornor 5 Susan Graylee 7 Jordan Dey 10 Gail Rowland 10 Ken Sutton 11 Phill Combs 12 Gayle Doebert 13 Marguerite Kirk 14 Linda Hart Mulgrew 14 Mike Brier 16 Dean Keegan [……]
Many people do not understand the power, importance, or security obtained through the use of BCC when sending emails to groups of people. Pretty much all of us know and have experienced the thrill of carbon paper – OK slight exaggeration. Carbon paper or carbon backed paper has been around for [……]
Mark your calendar and plan to attend one of the area’s greatest music offerings — the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival 2016. This free-of-charge jazz festival began in 2003 in Playa del Carmen on Mamitas Beach, and it grows bigger and better with international artists performing [……]
AkumalNow has a new Foodie! So what’s Shirley the New Foodie’s food background? After a short stint in college, she started working at a department store restaurant, then on to managing the daytime restaurant in a Hilton often working weekends and holidays which soon got old, so she applied for a [……]
Growing La Flor de Nochebuena outside (Poinsettias) We are used to seeing Poinsettias only at Christmas in the U.S. and Canada. But Poinsettias are indigenous to Mexico – they started here and grow like crazy outside. In a short time, you can have a ten-foot-tall plant in your garden and [……]
Attention sky-watchers! The full moon on 14 November will be the biggest since January, 1948, scientists are saying. This “supermoon” is one of three occurring at the end of 2016, the other two brightening our skies in October and December. Another full moon will not come this close to Earth [……]
Beautiful, Native Butterfly, the Blue Morpho One of the most gorgeous inhabitants of Quintana Roo is the blue morpho butterfly. As large as many birds, you will see it as it flutters by, flashing its metallic blue wings to disappear and reappear like something out of a magic trick. The [……]
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