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...
A Lake Chapala resident recalls her time with the embodiment of America’s puerile aspirations
The recent passing of Hugh Hefner, the silk clad Playboy magazine founder perpetually draped with blonde, big busted women - and a...
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...
Venezuelan transplant gives back with classical music camp in Guadalajara
Álvaro Larez is a 36-year-old classical violinist from the small Venezuelan island of Isla Margarita. He left his country for...
Shanghai Dumpling King: BYOB Bargain
What is it about the Shanghai soup dumpling that impels the restauranteur to affix the name "King" or "Kingdom" somewhere in the title of...