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Unusual tree gets new designation

Unusual tree gets new designation

To mark World Environment Day (June 5), Manuel Corona Diaz, the director general at Guadalajara’s Parque Metropolitano, designated an oddball camichin...

100 days that hardly shook Jalisco at all

100 days that hardly shook Jalisco at all

Political analysts have kept themselves busy assessing the achievements (or non-achievements) of Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval, as the 42-year...

Two sets of guards patrolling Tenacatita

Two sets of guards patrolling Tenacatita

A dozen or so Jalisco state police officers have been assigned to Tenacatita to ensure no one enters any of the deserted properties in the zone and th...

Innovative plastic recycling company opens its doors

Innovative plastic recycling company opens its doors

Remember that priceless scene in the 1967 film classic “The Graduate” when a zealous businessman collars the naïve protagonist Benjamin Braddock to of...

Former governor mired in graft investigation

Former governor mired in graft investigation

The latest embarrassment for the “reformed” Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is a scandal surrounding Andres Granier, the former governor of Ta...

Dessie Lee Rider

Dessie Lee Rider

Dessie Lee Rider, after a long illness, passed away at her home in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico on June 7 at the age of 63. 

Expat Living

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Kids have a ball at Papirolas

Kids have a ball at Papirolas

The Papirolas creative festival for children and young people continues this weekend at Expo Guadalajara.

Celebrating Jeanne Chaussee’s life

A celebration of Jeanne Chaussee’s life — including many of the things she loved about Mexico: mariachi, marimba, charros, margaritas, baile folkloric...

Texas festival in Nueva Vallarta

Texas natives residing in this region might want to pencil June 11-18 in their diaries.  Those are the dates of the ninth edition of the Texas Music F...

La Manzanilla Memo - April 13, 2013

La Manzanilla Memo - April 13, 2013

License experience

Getting a Mexican driver’s license was the most fun I’ve had with this country’s bureaucracy in the 13 years I’ve dealt it. My Cal...

City Living - June 15, 2013

City Living - June 15, 2013

Guadalajara’s own Irish dancers transport you to the Emerald Isle during a performance at the Twin Lions Casino, Thursday, June 27, 9 p.m.

Laguna Chapalac – June 15, 2013

Laguna Chapalac – June 15, 2013

 

You will not be seeing Charlie Klestadt out and about selling tickets for the upcoming Cruz Roja Luau at all his usual hangouts. But do not worry...

North Banderas Beat - April 6, 2013

North Banderas Beat - April 6, 2013

A smaller PEACE

It would be a vast understatement to say that community leaders in the northshore were caught off-guard by the news of the demise of ...

Arts & Entertainment

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1,000 drums at Cabañas

1,000 drums at Cabañas

Anyone who likes to play the drums is invited take part in a unique event to be held in the explanade of the Cabañas Cultural Institute on Friday, Jun...

Ribera Arts Review - June 15, 2013

Ribera Arts Review - June 15, 2013

The event to benefit Lake Chapala, Una Tarde de Verano (A Summer Afternoon), is  billed as “a unique fun happening involving music, art, yoga, arts an...

Benefit concert at Technical School

The Tecnologico Chapala (technical school) on the Libramiento will host a performance by the Orquesta Tipica de Autlan on Wednesday, June 19 to raise ...

Snitch

A father infiltrates a drug cartel in order to save his son from a prison sentence in this drama based on actual events.

Columns

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Signs of the season

We’re told by the Red Cross that certain pests get more active during the rainy season.  We’re talking chiefly about scorpions, spiders, flying insect...

Life with bugged phones

In Guadalajara, until the kidnapping, gristly torture and eventual murder of United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena, lau...

Mexican Lifestyles

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Car importation process back on track

One lakeside business seems to have found a way to bypass the problems that have plagued other firms and individuals that have tried to help expats na...

New city mall has ‘foodie’ focus

New city mall has ‘foodie’ focus

One of the latest malls to open in Guadalajara can be found at the southern end of Avenida Chapultepec in the ritzy area often referred to the Zona Ro...

1 in 5 patients unhappy with IMSS service

Surveys carried out by the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS) in recent years show that around 80 percent of those covered in the national hea...

The architectural wonders of Jalisco – make your choice

The architectural wonders of Jalisco – make your choice

The alternative tourism magazine “Jalisco al Natural” is seeking the public’s suggestions for the seven architectural wonders (siete maravillas arquit...

Author wins prize for debut novel

Author wins prize for debut novel

The first novel of 32-year-old Guadalajara author Ave Barrera García has won the Premio Latinoamericano de Primera Novela Sergio Galindo de la Univers...

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