Posts by Regina Sienra

Regina Sienra

Regina Sienra is a Staff Writer at My Modern Met. She is a Mexico City-based journalist, translator, and digital media professional with over a decade of experience creating bilingual content in English and Spanish. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a specialization in Journalism from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work spans both hard and soft news, with a focus on arts, culture, and entertainment. She has a particular interest in highlighting emerging and independent musicians, a passion that earned her recognition as CBC Radio 3’s Fan of the Year in 2014. Sienra brings a broad pop culture perspective to her writing, with interests that include music, film, and cultural trends across media. When she isn't writing, she is watching films, attending concerts, and building out her growing vinyl collection.
Animals
July 7, 2025

Orcas “French Kissing” Captured in Underwater Footage Both in Captivity and in the Wild

If you're on the animal side of TikTok, you've surely seen videos of animals appearing to kiss. This can go from cute, with kittens grooming each other, to uncomfortably odd, with cows sucking each other's faces. But kissing is not exclusive to land-dwelling animals. Scientists have caught orcas “French kissing” on camera in different underwater environments. And while it may come across as a little odd, it offers some insight into whale behavior.

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Inspiring
July 4, 2025

Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize

In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship. That's why, when Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Germain was one of the people who came to his mind.

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Art
July 2, 2025

Japanese Town Famous for Its Rice Paddy Art Devotes This Year’s Piece to ‘Demon Slayer’

Anime and manga are two of Japan's biggest cultural exports. And among these, Demon Slayer has one of the largest followings both in Japan and around the world, with readers and watchers in the millions. Because of its undeniable popularity, Gyoda (a city that has risen to fame for their yearly project of rice paddy art) devoted their 2025 design to this major franchise ahead of a major release.

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Oil Painting
June 29, 2025

Artist Draws From Mexican Pictorial Traditions to Explore His Inner Life Through Self Portraits [Interview]

In the work of artist Angel Cammen, there's much more to a self-portrait than the likeness of the painter. Born and raised in Northern Mexico, a stronghold of conservative values, Cammen's paintings are charged with a bubbling symbolism. On one hand, they are spaces of introspection, carved out by the artist himself. On the other hand, they are joyous statements that he is thriving and going to be loudly himself—whether society likes it or not.

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My Modern Met

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