Enter Mr. Depp

Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman are making one of them post-holocaust flicks in my neighborhood. Parts of downtown Belen have been grimed and gritted up to look suitably battered by time and ill fortune— not that some parts of the downtown didn’t look like that to begin with.
When photography begins on Monday, it’s going to be hard to travel in that area.
Here we see a building partly into its conversion. Belen’s old railroad hotel is getting a new porch. (The hotel, by the way, is owned, or at...