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...
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...