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"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...

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...

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...

Offalmania in the Inner Richmond : The Organ Trail Part 3

The Richmond. Utter that small collection of phonemes three times in a row a la Beetlejuice and you might suddenly find yourself clad in...

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...

The Best Places to Eat Organ Meat in the Mission

For those interested in the consumption of fine entrails, we present to you here within a weekly collection of macabre signposts pointing...