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H&M is to open store

Swedish multinational retail-clothing company H&M is to open its first store in Guadalajara in the Plaza Galerias.

Operating since 1947, the chai...

Bosses won’t fund unemployment insurance

Making good on a campaign promise, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has announced that he will shortly provide details on benefits for the unempl...

Vallarta seeks to win back gay tourism crown

Puerto Vallarta wants to reclaim its reputation as Mexico’s most gay-friendly destination, the city’s Tourism Secretary Carlos Gerard announced this w...

Ajijic fountain flows in memory of grand local dames

Ajijic fountain flows in memory of grand local dames

“Water is a symbol of life. The water in this fountain represents the lives of four beloved women.” With these simple words, Chapala Mayor Joaquin Hue...

Local beauty queen makes TV soap debut

Local beauty queen makes TV soap debut

Guadalajara’s Ximena Navarrete, who won the Miss Universe crown in 2010, has branched out into the world of acting and is appearing in her first telen...

US plots path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

The 11 million undocumented workers residing in the United States – nearly 60 percent of whom are Mexican – could gain citizenship within 13 years und...

Myrna Elizabeth Reid

Myrna Elizabeth Reid

Myrna Elizabeth Reid died May 11 at her Ajijic home after a battle with cancer at the age of 73.

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.

Masons help out clean-up brigade

Masons help out clean-up brigade

Masonic Lodge Axixic #31 is again backing community projects – this time helping Ajijic Town Administrator Hector España with his clean-up project inv...

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...

Laguna Chapalac - May 18, 2013

Laguna Chapalac - May 18, 2013

The back patio of Lake Chapala Society hummed with congratulations and feelings of pride and accomplishment on May 4, as more than 180 students of Lak...

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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Dance company gets reprieve

The state-funded Compañía de Danza Clásica y Neoclásica de Jalisco has been given a stay of execution but the troupe will change its name to the Joven...

Ribera Arts Review – May 18, 2013

Ribera Arts Review – May 18, 2013

The Naked Stage, producers of minimalist play readings for adult theater lovers, will present “Hot Line” by Elaine May and “The Spelling of Coynes by ...

Youth orchestra to make debut

Youth orchestra to make debut

The newly formed Orquesta Filarmonica Infantil de la Ribera de Chapala (Lakeside Philharmonic Youth Orchestra) will make its debut on Saturday, May 18...

The Words

The Words

Struggling writer Rory Jansen rockets to fame after passing off a brilliant found manuscript as his own, but experiences an acute crisis of conscience...

Columns

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Who are you, really?

It’s amazing how we can know someone for years without asking or knowing any of the pertinent questions that would belong in an obituary.

When work isn’t labor

Eleno Diaz was boldly, if shakily, perched at the peak of my teja-and-carrizo roof, and in a satirical voice reviewing the local chismes from his pueb...

Mexican Lifestyles

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Street grub – gourmet style!

Street grub – gourmet style!

Two truths about Mexican cuisine: 1) not all street food needs to be of the taco variety and 2) you don’t need fancy surroundings and a hefty check to...

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...

Tour historic San Juan Cosala

Tour historic San Juan Cosala

Best known today for its waterfront seafood restaurants and thermal water spas, San Juan Cosala was a burgeoning native settlement called Cuzatlan whe...

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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