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UdeG names new rector

Claiming 106 of the 182 votes cast, Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla won the vote to serve as rector of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) from 2013 to 2019 o...

Jalisco leads clothes production

Jalisco is the leading state in Mexico for the manufacturing of clothes, the State Secretary of Economic Development said at the IM Intermoda Guadaala...

Fewer tourists flying to Vallarta

The number of tourists flying into Puerto Vallarta has dropped significantly over the past five years, the Pacific Airport Group (GAP) revealed this w...

Bears prepare for international test

Local pro basketball team Osos de Jalisco are set to co-host the  first round of the FIBA Americas League, an international club competition, early ne...

Registration of 37 Chapala town administrator candidates confirmed

Eight women and 29 men are registered to compete for positions as delegados (town administrators) in Chapala’s five satellite communities, to be decid...

New travel provision for minors put on hold

Mexican authorities have agreed to delay the implementation of an amendment to migration law affecting children traveling without their parents.

US presidential inauguration conundrum

The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution stipulates when the presidential inauguration takes place. Going into effect after the difficult Depressio...

Richard Wayne Love

Former Lakeside resident Richard Love died January 24 in Galveston, Texas at the age of 69.

Expat Living

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Toga party supports Easter spectacle

Ajijic’s magnificent Easter Passion Play comes up for a 33rd encore during the last week of March, presented in episodes staged on Palm Sunday, Maundy...

North Banderas Beat - February 2, 2013

Fundraiser 1
About 50 people attended the successful Bingo and Schnitzel Fest, held at the home of  Franz Painer and Joanne Walsh, to raise funds for P...

City Living - February 2, 2013

Super Bowl Sunday
The American Society of Jalisco (AmSoc) is holding a Super Bowl Party on Sunday, February 3, from 3 p.m.

Laguna Chapalac - February 2, 2013

Just ducky
Be sure to rent your rubber duckies for the Cruz Roja race down the slow river at the Chili Cookoff, scheduled this year from Friday, Februa...

La Manzanilla Memo - January 12, 2013

Intermission

The curtain has closed on the first act of the living theater that is La Manzanilla in Season. The scene faded to black as the Thanksgiv...

Arts & Entertainment

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Orchestra in a pickle but some see sweeter times ahead

With the abrupt exit of Alondra de La Parra after only 10 months as artistic director of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, and the imminent installa...

Ribera Arts Review - February 2, 2013

Mariachi gala
Well-known singer Dina Buendia and her musicians will headline a mariachi gala at the Hotel Real de Chapala on Friday, February 8, 7 p.m....

The Impossible

Set during the 2004 Thailand tsunami,this drama details one family’s incredible fight for survival.

Columns

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Worth it

No one can deny my bitching about the rotten weather (for us) a few weeks ago. The drippy, droopy and downright cold doesn’t do a lot for my personali...

Mexican Lifestyles

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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...

Skiing in Mexico: whatever next!

Skiing in Mexico: whatever next!

Most Mexicans with handsome incomes head to Whistler or Vail for their winter skiing experiences.  But those without such financial resources, or thos...

Jalisco expat reexamines US-Mexico War from a humane perspective

Back in his native Guadalajara last week, Los Angeles-based professor and author Manuel Aguilar-Moreno launched a Spanish-language account of the 1846...

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