E - Entertainment


“There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playin’ star again...”

As you might guess, Puerto Lopez is not a locus of cinematic performance.

Occasionally, the local schools will put on performances. These are usually either dramatic performances or marching bands, and the kids put their hearts into them. Other times, we’ll have an itinerant troubadour, a traveling jazz duet and once even a bagpiper perform in town. For professional-level productions, however, we’ve got nada.

During our seven month stay in Cuenca, we had the opportunity to enjoy performances by the local community theater and small orchestras. Quito and Guayaquil will even host contemporary performers like Maroon 5 (ask your kids).

Puerto Lopez has none of that. That doesn’t mean that we lack for entertainment. It’s just not live.

Our local DVD-hut has most new movie releases. They aren’t official, however (video-cam steals), and they are either subtitled or dubbed in English. Content is also limited; most of the movies are either action movies or WWE-style wrestling.

Most of what we have is electronic. Pirati…err, “digital borrowing” is one method of getting movies or music. Most common, however, is a remote subscription service via NetFlix, Amazon or Roku. Our local cable system will also have most championship games for sporting events (World Series, Super Bowl, etc.), and streaming baseball and football games online is something that I do at home.

Many times, though, we have to detail with one of the most disappointing messages that people in North American rarely see:

“This content not available in your country.”


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  1. Hilary Melton-ButcherApril 5, 2018 at 8:51 PM

    Hi Scott - being British ... I get irritated here when the Beeb won't allow me to watch British tv - ah well ... in Canada do as Canadians do ... and fortunately there's some public broadcast ones. I guess living in Ecuador has some disadvantages! ... But must be fascinating - cheers Hilary

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    1. Hilary Melton-ButcherApril 5, 2018 at 8:52 PM

      Also the library ... I'm getting films I wouldn't normally see via the library - foreign ones mostly - but living in a Bilingual country I suppose helps!! Cheers once again -H

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