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Sex, Death and Butterflies in Michoacan

The migration of the North American monarch butterfly between Mexico and Canada is a journey of life, death and rebirth, a testament to...

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...

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...

Lake Chapala's ukulele cartel

A succinct visual summation of Ajijic, Mexico's retirement paradise on its largest lake. Ukuleles. More and more, it seems like they’re...

"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...

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 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...

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...

A bait-and-switch scam puts a dent in churches' coffers

Base criminality? Poetic justice? Whichever way you might lean, it’s safe to assume that the mitered grandees of the Archdiocese of...

Taking the pulse of Guadalajara's jazz scene at an urban park on Sunday

At first it seemed like butterflies might end up outnumbering human spectators at this past Sunday’s concert celebrating International...