Tapatios praise pope as he heads for retirement
Catholics in Guadalajara seemed stunned Monday after learning that Pope Benedict XVI has become the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to resign his position as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Over the next two years Chapala will metamorphose from scruffy tourist town to breathtaking visitor wonderland if the current municipal administration succeeds in its grandiose pla...
The installation of cell phone transmission towers in residential neighborhoods has turned into recurrent NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) issue in the Chapala area.
The Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) Wednesday confirmed a second case of the Zika virus in the state.
Last weekend, traders finally took occupancy of the new Mercado Corona, almost two years after the landmark covered market in the city center burned to the ground.
To mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday, the nine municipalities that...
Mexico’s Education Secretary Aurelio Nuño has insisted that his dec...
Mexican Stock Market (BMV) opened at 44,492.50 a decrease of 123.25 points from ...
At the end of last week the Chapala government’s press office sent out an ...
Mazatlan is the music mecca of Mexico, or at least that’s the word around ...
Gary Keeler
Riberas resident Gary Keeler died at home on Sunday, February 28.&nbs...;
Only one in four sexually active teenagers in Jalisco always use a condom, accor...
From March, Mexico plans to deliver data to the United States on all Americans w...
Leopoldo Seifert, Juan Varela and Yanic Gentry shared honors as co-winners of th...
The other day, still in an early morning daze, I dashed out of the house to do a...
Robert Bruce Drynan of Ajijic is the author of “Domain of the Scorpion&rdq...;
It’s a glorious feeling as you swim into the beautiful secluded beach of t...
The chikungunya virus has extended to ten Mexican states, and while only two cas...
There’s a story about the restaurant Tio Domingo that goes something like ...
The concept of the home is at the heart of Mexican culture, “Mi casa es tu ...
Sporting “I voted today” buttons, 16 Guadalajara-based Americans rel...
Women’s Week continues
As part of the celebration of International Women&rs...;
Night Under the Stars
La Catalina Foundation’s 12th annual fundraiser...
Award for Book Fair president
In the presence of U.S. Consul General Tayna ...
The Navy League of Vallarta and American Legion Post 14 invite all American, Can...
For Bibliophiles
When Leone Ewoldt built her house in Villa Obregon in 2006, she ...
Manix: homemade corned beef and cabbage, three-course dinner served all day, star...
Chacala Festival
Chacala is a relaxing fishing village situated in the heart of t...
Rubber Ducky
It is all about fun, food and friendship at the 7th Annual Duckaton ...
Sabius is an organization founded by students of the Tec de Monterrey university...
When Lena Curiel’s kidnapped young mother, Chela, was found, it was said s...
Many area expats are still unaware that there is prank-filled holiday observance...
The Jardin of San Miguel was recently the scene of an amicable conversation I ha...
So maybe those glasses at Pier One aren’t overpriced after all.
Famed Guadalajara-born ranchero singer Vicente Fernandez is set to give the fina...
Straight-laced lawyer Jason goes on a road trip to Daytona Beach with his horndo...
The Lake Chapala chapter of Democrats Abroad is sponsoring movies each Sunday, 1...
Northern Lights
Last chance to enjoy fantastic musicians at the Northern Lights F...
Famed Guadalajara-born ranchero singer Vicente Fernandez is set to give the final performance of his career at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City on April 16, an event that will probably be telecast live in a downtown Guadalajara plaza.
U.S. actors Danny Glover and Maya Rudolph heaped praise on Mexican director/actor Diego Luna at the Guadalajara International Film Festival this week.
The Lake Chapala chapter of Democrats Abroad is sponsoring movies each Sunday, 1:30 p.m. at Cinemas del Lago in Plaza Bugambilias to help support their local voter registration program.
Russian music concert
The principal flautist in the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, Belarus-born Antonio Dubatovka, returns to Ajijic Saturday, March 12, to join well known pianist Timothy Welch in a performance of Russian music for flute and piano.
Northern Lights
Last chance to enjoy fantastic musicians at the Northern Lights Festival de Febrero at the Broken Hearts and Madmen featuring the Gyphon Trio with vocalist Patricia O’Callaghan. The concert is Friday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. at the Auditorio de la Ribera. Tickets are available at t...
Tax receipts
Música Para Crecer A.C. is now in a position to arrange tax receipts for donations in U.S. dollars.
Straight-laced lawyer Jason goes on a road trip to Daytona Beach with his horndog grandfather Dick, who was recently widowed and is eager to party hard on spring break now that he’s a single man. Along the way, Dick prods Jason to let loose and have fun, and tries to convince him that he shoul...
The remarkable true story of the most daring rescue mission in the history of the Coast Guard. On February 952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil t...
Sabius is an organization founded by students of the Tec de Monterrey university for the purpose of helping senior citizens share their knowledge and experience with the younger generation. Along with courses in auto mechanics, cooking and English conversation, Sabius recently added hikes and excurs...
I recently camped at Balneario el Rincón, a waterpark near Teuchitlán, with several friends who are into birdwatching. One of them approached me, while I was setting up my tent, with a large printed announcement.
When Lena Curiel’s kidnapped young mother, Chela, was found, it was said she refused to come home. Several members of the extended Curiel family, plus three armed family friends, were sent to bring the stolen young mother home. They were led by the family doctor and a bruja. (In the 1960...
Last week’s column here snagged some readers’ curiosity. Campesino vocabulary –1950s, ‘60s – changed a lot, courtesy of U.S. war vets. They migrated to Mexico, bringing a fresh Spanish vocabulary to rural Mexico. Example: Lysander Kemp’s essay re...
The Jardin of San Miguel was recently the scene of an amicable conversation I had with a Mac user who insisted there was no such thing as a Mac virus. I am a Mac user too, and perhaps I have a little better memory on this subject. As promised, here is a much abbreviated chronology.
In a recent conversation a friend of mine used the expression “two nines” in referring to the fact his most recent round of golf had been played on a nine-hole golf course and he had done two nines to complete his eighteen-hole round. “Two nines” is also an expression f...
There wasn’t a band playing “The World Turned Upside Down” (Yorktown 1781) but such musical accompaniment wouldn’t have seemed out of place Tuesday night as the outcomes of the New Hampshire Democratic and Republican primaries became clear.
Many area expats are still unaware that there is prank-filled holiday observance between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
When the Spanish arrived in the Western Hemisphere, they recorded that the Aztecs viewed all flowers as gifts of the gods. The ancients in this area cultivated the red star-shaped cuetlaxóchitl (flower with leather petals) as an offering to their supreme diety – the god of the sun &ndas...;
So maybe those glasses at Pier One aren’t overpriced after all.
There’s a time and a place for Costco. And sometimes a trip to Superama is a good place to walk the aisles – particularly if you’re looking for yellow cheese. But given the choice, I pick one of my little neighborhood groceries every time.
Sporting “I voted today” buttons, 16 Guadalajara-based Americans relax and order lunch after traveling by bus to Ajijic to join about 300 other expats voting in person in the Democrats Abroad primary March 7.
Partners of the Americas, a non-profit organization that seeks to connect people and organizations across borders to serve and to change lives through lasting partnerships, will host its 2016 International Partnership Convention at Guadalajara’s Hotel Presidente Intercontinental from October 2...
Award for Book Fair president
In the presence of U.S. Consul General Tayna Anderson, the Instituto Cultural Mexico Norteamericano (ICMN) presented their Educational and culture Merit Medal to Raul Padilla, the long-serving president of Guadalajara’s International Book Fair and Int...
Manix: homemade corned beef and cabbage, three-course dinner served all day, starting noon. Music by Ricardo, 7-9 p.m. 220 pesos. Ocampo 57, Ajijic, 766-0061.
Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination.
Women’s Week continues
As part of the celebration of International Women’s Week, six awards will be presented to distinguished Lakeside women, Friday, March 11, 4:30 p.m. at the Central Cultural Antigua Presidencia in Chapala. The categories are Medical/Health Care, Education, Arts and ...
CASA
The Culinary Arts Society of Ajijic (CASA) Award Banquet and 30th Anniversary bash held March 1 at Roberto’s Restaurant was a hit. (L-R) CASA President Monica Molloy and Lorraine Keefer presented Rick Feldmann, the top winner of the 2015 Bing Award (three first places in a calendar yea...
The Navy League of Vallarta and American Legion Post 14 invite all American, Canadian and Mexican citizens to pay tribute to all those who served in their country’s armed forces.
As aspiring writers well know, authoring a book is one thing, getting it published is another.
An opportunity to bridge that gap will be offered at the Puerto Vallarta International Writers Conference at Bibioteca Los Mangos March 6-8. Evelyn Bryne of White Bird Publications will be attending to gi...
Chacala Festival
Chacala is a relaxing fishing village situated in the heart of the Riviera Nayarit, about 25 miles north of Bucerias/northshore. Each March, the Puerto de Chacala Music and Art Festival brings together musicians and other artists for a three-day, three-night celebration, comp...
Got talent?
Here’s the chance you’ve been waiting for to show off your hidden talents, beyond singing along with the karaoke machine in your favorite vacation hangout.
Night Under the Stars
La Catalina Foundation’s 12th annual fundraiser was once again an enjoyable success. The entertainment committee outdid themselves this year with song and dance. The town square was filled with supporters who were treated to not only to performances of ...
What is mariachi?
If you were to ask that question to persons in the United States or Canada, more than half would answer thus: “A group of men in tight black outfits playing ‘La Cucaracha’ on their guitars and trumpets.”
For Bibliophiles
When Leone Ewoldt built her house in Villa Obregon in 2006, she had a room made for a book exchange because of her love of reading and sharing books with others. Having sold everything, including hundreds of books when she left Seattle, her new little room soon filled up and the bo...
The Only Tours
Ray Calhoun discovered the Costa Alegre in the late 1980s. His seasonal work at a British Columbia marina allowed him time to head south in winter.
Rubber Ducky
It is all about fun, food and friendship at the 7th Annual Duckaton Fundraiser for SETAC (Solidaridad Ed Thomas A.C.) You’ll enjoy live entertainment, food, open bar, and great prizes all for a good cause.
The Pots are Simmering
The 4th Annual American Legion Charity Chili Cook-Off will fire up on Saturday, February 27, from 1 to 5 p.m. at El Rio BBQ Bar and Grill on the Cuale River in Colonia Paso Ancho.
The other day, still in an early morning daze, I dashed out of the house to do a few errands. As soon as I got to my first destination I realized I had left my cell phone behind, recharging on the bedside table.
Dime como hablas y te dire quien eres (Tell me how you talk and I’ll tell you who you are) is a popular Mexican dicho (saying) that aptly underlies, from a proverbial viewpoint, the difference in the use of language between Mexicans and foreigners.
It’s a glorious feeling as you swim into the beautiful secluded beach of the Marieta Islands (Islas Marietas). As you pass under a rocky arch in the island there is a moment when the tide turns in your favor and washes you gently towards the sandy shoreline. It is as if the island has deemed y...
Discount airline Volaris will connect Guadalajara with San Jose, Costa Rica, with two direct weekly flights, beginning September 10. The flights will leave Guadalajara on Thursdays and Sundays at 7:20 a.m., returning the same days at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are already on sale on the airline’s...
There’s a story about the restaurant Tio Domingo that goes something like this: Over ten years back, the patrons of the restaurant so loved the place that, when they heard owner Salvador could not afford to keep it open and arranged to close, they rallied together at one last Christmas Eve fie...
If a Mexicana were to open a “diner” in Ajijic, Josy’s would be it. The building construct even has the shape of what we expats know as the classic compact diner, long and rectangular. (Note: Early 20th Century food-service trucks or wagons with “walk-up” windows took p...
Robert Bruce Drynan of Ajijic is the author of “Domain of the Scorpion” (2009), a thriller set in Colombia and Venezuela and Panama, that introduces several characters we meet again in his latest novel, “The Shadow of Nemesis,” set largely in Mexico. “Domain of the Scor...
The United Kingdom pavilion at the FIL is sure to be a hive of activity. Here a just a few of the highlights. See fil.com.mx for a full schedule.
The chikungunya virus has extended to ten Mexican states, and while only two cases have been reported in Jalisco, neighboring Colima has 34 confirmed cases.
Elias Iñiguez Mejia, the president of the Health Committee in the Jalisco Congress, is pushing for a statewide campaign to disseminate the risks posed by out-of-date medicines, as well as their correct disposal.
To mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday, the nine municipalities that comprise the Guadalajara metropolitan area signed an agreement aimed at guaranteeing that women have equal opportunities and are free to fully exercise their rights.
Hundreds of fans partied in various locations across Mexico in celebration of Leonardo DiCaprio’s long anticipated Oscar win, while snubbing Mexico’s Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu achievement of becoming the first director to collect consecutive Academy Awards since Joseph L. M...
At the end of last week the Chapala government’s press office sent out an agenda of activities scheduled for March 4 through 12, giving local media outlets a welcome heads-up to plan coverage on coming events.
Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado this week thumbed his nose at a group of local vendors who are calling for the ouster of Leticia Martinez Castro, head of the municipality’s Dirección de Mercados.
Only one in four sexually active teenagers in Jalisco always use a condom, according to the Jalisco youth survey.
National Geographic is promoting the town of Tequila with the launch of an interactive guide on its lauded Geotourism MapGuide platform. The project took eight months to develop and cost around US$120,000. Mexico’s tourism board, the Tequila Development Council and the Jose Cuervo Foundation c...
Mexico’s Education Secretary Aurelio Nuño has insisted that his decision to fire 3,360 teachers “is irrevocable.” The teachers were let go because they failed to attend mandatory evaluation tests, which were part of sweeping reforms introduced by President Enrique Peñ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says delays to the confirmation of Roberta Jacobson as the new U.S. ambassador to Mexico are an “insult” to this country.
Mazatlan is the music mecca of Mexico, or at least that’s the word around town. You can see signs of it everywhere, from banda, Mexican ballads, mariachis, and the sweet sound of Jazz and blues, rock, folk, country and classical music.
Holiday events & gift ideas
The holidays are quickly approaching. To help make your holiday a little bit brighter – and shopping for friends, family and neighbors a little easier – our team has compiled a list of holiday events and creative gifts ideas that give back to the communit...
From March, Mexico plans to deliver data to the United States on all Americans with investments in Mexican banks of more than US$50,000.
The BCC is to finance a biographical film about the late British artist Leonora Carrington, an iconic figure who lived a large part of her adult life in Mexico.
Mexican Stock Market (BMV) opened at 44,492.50 a decrease of 123.25 points from Thursday, March 3, 2016.
The largest alcoholic beverage company in the world, Diageo, is making major moves in Mexico.
Gary Keeler
Riberas resident Gary Keeler died at home on Sunday, February 28.
Jay Shuffle
Popular lakeside singer and harmonica player Jay Shuffle died peacefully in his sleep on Valentine’s Day morning, at the age of 66.
Leopoldo Seifert, Juan Varela and Yanic Gentry shared honors as co-winners of the first annual Copa Porsche sailing regatta held last weekend at Chapala’s Club de Yates. The three young Jalisco-born athletes racked up equal scores to tie for the championship title.
Guadalajara boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will defend his WBC World Middleweight title against Great Britain’s Amir Khan on May 7 in Las Vegas.
Catholics in Guadalajara seemed stunned Monday after learning that Pope Benedict XVI has become the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to resign his position as head of the Roman Catholic Church.