Haciendo un poco de investigación descubrimos que la comedia musical que Arturo Vega hizo con Héctor Suárez en el Teatro Insurgentes titulada Sigue tu onda, fue una adaptación al español del show de Broadway Your Own Thing. Tiempo después el mismo Arturo estaría viajando a Nueva York para ver si podía conseguir un papel en Hair ...

Let’s keep learning the Chilango slang. Ciudad de México, also knows as El Distrito or el D.F. is home to around 21 million people. Of course, they have to set themselves apart from people coming from other cities, and that’s why they created their own words, their own expressions. We went to share and learn with this nice construction crew, all of them very proud of being Chilangos.

As it turns out the young Arturo Vega, Mexican emigré actor and artist in New York, lived below a girl who was seeing a young man named Douglas Glenn Colvin (who would come to be known as “Dee Dee Ramone”). The two visionaries got to talking…

Arriving in December of ‘71, a young Arturo Vega decides that it is New York where he is going to clavar, or stay put. His journey began in Mexico, where he began his artistic life as an actor and participant in experimental theater or “happenings”—an art form which was not well received by the powers that be in that country.