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Latin America's 36th Best Restaurant is the beauty to Guadalajara's beast

Escamoles, or ant eggs, on a puree of cauliflower and parsnip, course four at Alcalde Without a doubt the jewel piercing the otherwise...

Samadhi Cafe: Haven for the beer-obsessed teutonophile

When your first opportunity to eat currywurst is inside a massive, drafty suburban shopping mall in Guadalajara, Mexico, you may found...

Diamonds in the rough: Street art in Guadalajara

Work by artists Peque vrs and Pwoz Mac, calle Morelos and Roja Gonzalez In case you hadn’t heard, art imitates life, which is no less...

The tattoo artist as healer

Sitting in the sun-lit office of Chapultepec-adjacent tattoo shop Chamuca at three in the afternoon, owner and artist Rodrigo Ruiz...

"Gastronomic Corridor" or the mayor's poorly polished turd?

Mayor Alfaro (center) holding forth during COME's inauguration in October Upon completion of an examination of Guadalajara’s newly minted...

Casa Luna in Tlaquepaque: Feast for the eyes, some good leftovers for the tongue

Nothing fogs up the windscreen of the critical faculties like having within arm’s reach an eight-foot-tall tree (fake, but made of real...

Annual Guadalajara livestock fair a fecund onslaught for the senses

Guadalajara’s Expo Ganadero, an annual livestock fair and competition running from October 5 to November 2, is for the first-time...

Nueve Esquinas: Guadalajara's Birria Mecca

There’s a typewriter repair shop on Calle Libertad one block north of Plaza Nueve Esquinas. Peering into its gloomy interior, the eye...

The glorious excess of modern mariachi

Two weeks ago, I covered the Traditional Mariachi Festival and was impressed by its participants’ adherence to an older - and less...

Merchants in Guadalajara's Centro Historico need tram line construction to end

For the last few decades, Guadalajara’s heart has been slowly hemorrhaging its inhabitants in all cardinal and inter-cardinal directions...

The Jalisco Jazz Festival: proselytizers of improvised music

On a cool evening on the roof terrace of a snazzy Zapopan mall complex ringed by the soaring husks of new construction, a month and...

A celebration of national, corporate brotherhood at the U.S. Consular July 4th fete in Guadalajara

The American Consulate celebrated its parent country’s independence from the U.K. inside the massive convention hall of a technical...

Annual Fiesta de la Musica: A showcase for Guadalajara's polyglot music scene

The stylistic breadth in evidence at last Sunday’s Fiesta de la Musica, an annual multi-stage affair in Guadalajara, seemed to warrant...

Via Libertad, agent of rebirth or lame gentrifier?

Astute observers of urban milieus, be they dilettantes or professional urbanists, can’t have failed to noticed the proliferation in the...

Guadalajara's tianguis cultural: handicrafts, Hot Wheels, moshpits and tacos

According to two dispassionate, bored teenagers manning a t-shirt stall, the tiangius cultural next to Parque Agua Azul has been going...