The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
What happens if Mexico, Canada and the United States fail to reach an agreement on how to upgrade the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and Donald Trump gives the order t...
Jalisco’s Salvando Vidas (Saving Lives) campaign to keep drunk drivers off the road appeared in the lakeside area for the second weekend in a row, with checkpoints set up Sat...
Long gone are the days when Guadalajara’s moniker as “The City of the Roses” had even a modicum of validity.
An iconic English-language bookstore that has graced Guadalajara’s leafy Colonia Chapalita for the past 47 years is about to close its doors.
It comes around once a year, and when it does, it brings a whole lot of noise an...
Rafael Marquez, the captain of both the Atlas soccer club in Guadalajara a...
$ doesn’t follow degree
In Mexico, monthly pay for a postgraduate degree ...
The Chapala government has changed the date for holding a public opinion survey ...
San Pancho, Sayulita’s more mild-mannered neighbor in the state of Nayarit...
Nancy Woods Chaloner
Nancy Woods Chaloner died July 22 in Vancouver, British Co...
Jalisco state police busted three suspected drug dealers in Jocotepec on Friday,...
About an hour drive south from Guadalajara is the Colima Volcano, an active stra...
While women’s soccer in Mexico has never caught on in the same manner as i...
1967
Golf course on track
As the new golf course of the Country Club de Chapal...
A new biography on the extraordinary life of the late Leonora Carrington, the Br...
Aeromexico this month started its new daily (except Tuesdays) direct service fro...
It’s not just us humans who are feeling the calor in the days leading up t...
Gourmet dining has almost as much to do with how you feel when you walk into a d...
A major health crisis is what motivated Jaime Navarro into organic farming and p...
Mexico-Israel duo
The duo LaSolFaReMi present a program titled “Tres sigl...
Open Circle
Sandy Britton will present “More Than a Feeling” at the...
Best Little Coffee Café
Tucked into a little corner shop of the Grand Ca...
The fifth annual gay pride festival in Puerto Vallarta will take place the week ...
On our way home
By the time you read this column, we will be on the long trek b...
Unitarian Universalists
Kathy Koches will lead the annual service, entitled &ld...
A neighbor in need
Claudia Reyes, a young mother and daughter of local drummer ...
Politically Active
Democrats Abroad Costa Banderas will hold their annual meeti...
If ever you are looking for a short hike through a beautiful landscape to a mira...
Several decades ago, not long after I arrived in Mexico, I was strolling down Gu...
I sometimes think the expat community here at Lakeside believes it has no right ...
Allyn Hunt, a former editor and owner of this newspaper and South of North colum...
I had planned on writing a nice, lengthy, last column worthy of the place I&rsqu...
The recent high-profile ransomware attack named Wantacry is the reason I was on ...
You’re trying to wedge your way through a crowd of passengers to the exit ...
Monday concerts
Concerts are held each Monday at this classy and relatively new...
Annabelle: Creation
A dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls fr...
After a summer recess, the Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) gets back into the swin...
Actor’s Showcase
Two more showcase presentations of Roseann Wilshere&rsqu...
Monday concerts
Concerts are held each Monday at this classy and relatively new cultural complex to the north of the city.
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 change of jazz-related events in Guadalajara both educational and diversionary came to a head in five hours of live music, speechifying and canapes.
After a summer recess, the Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) gets back into the swing of the action with a pre-season fundraiser to assist its ongoing upgrading projects.
Ernesto Ramirez, who has gone on from an early musical education at the University of Guadalajara to become an internationally acclaimed tenor, and his wife, distinguished Canadian mezzo-soprano Michèle Bogdanowicz, will present a selection of beloved opera and show music in Ajijic, Thursday,...
Actor’s Showcase
Two more showcase presentations of Roseann Wilshere’s Actor’s Studio are scheduled at Bravo Theatre on Friday, August 11, 4 p.m. and Saturday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.
Janus Quartet
The classical Janus Quartet will perform at Haus de Musik (Constitucion 112, Ajijic) Friday, August 4, 7 p.m.
Annabelle: Creation
A dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.
Paris Can Wait
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband’s associates.
An enterprising family has transformed Amatitán’s impressive Ruinas de Chimulco into a restaurant which is not only charming and picturesque, but, I’ll venture to say, unique, because its table-side pool is fed by a qanat, a kind of underground aqueduct which was invented in Persi...
Every year in August, my friend Franky Álvarez sends out a call: “I need 300 volunteers to plant 300 trees on top of el Cerro del Cuatro.”
Allyn Hunt, a former editor and owner of this newspaper and South of North columnist for more than 45 years, has retired from writing his weekly column. The Reporter will occasionally publish previously run columns of his in this space. This column was first published in May, 1988.
(A version of this column was first published in the July 1, 1989 edition of this newspaper)
The United States Supreme Court decision concerning the case of Gregory Johnson, arrested for burning the U.S. flag during a protest demonstration at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas...
The recent high-profile ransomware attack named Wantacry is the reason I was on the receiving end of quite a few questions concerning virus and malware and what can be done to defend against the threat.
Over the years I have been writing this column, I have assembled a group of contributors who as part-time visitors to Mexico, are unable to buy the paper every week and have expressed an interest in continuing to read my column.
Several decades ago, not long after I arrived in Mexico, I was strolling down Guadalajara’s Avenida Federalismo and struck up a conversation with a rather down-at-heel man, probably in his early fifties. It turned out he was from Guatemala and living in a refugee camp in Michoacan, Jalisco&rsq...
Should we be grateful that President Donald Trump had an “epiphany” and decided to change his mind about pulling the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
I had planned on writing a nice, lengthy, last column worthy of the place I’ve had the pleasure of living in for the past two years.
The wool coat looks worse for the non-wear. It is wrinkled from being unworn and crammed in the back of a closet for two years; dotted with dust and dog hair from a dog that departed the family a year ago; in need of a lint brush that can’t be found in the pile of things to be thrown away, don...
You’re trying to wedge your way through a crowd of passengers to the exit of the back of the bus, or squeeze into the doorway of a shop blocked by a couple of people engaged in deep conversation.
Early last month our mayor announced an elaborate plan to renovate the borders of the narrow stretch of highway running through the center of Ajijic.
I sometimes think the expat community here at Lakeside believes it has no right to complain about anything here in Mexico.
Not long ago, I took a rare trip motoring from lakeside into Guadalajara, the city once known as the Pearl of the West.
By Dale Hoyt Palfrey
Discover the quince in all its glory at Expo Membrillo, a small town country fair taking place this weekend in Atotonilquillo, Chapala’s most distant satellite community.
The American Society of Jalisco (AmSoc), a sixty-year-old organization dedicated to helping foreign residents,
‘Empty Bowls’ at American School
The American School’s fourth “Tazones Vacíos” (Empty Bowls) event on Thursday, March 6 seeks to raise funds for the Organización de Nutrición Infantil (ONI), a Guadalajara-based NGO whose mission is to prevent malnu...
El Clasico: Chivas vs. America
Bars will be packed the evening of Saturday, February 18 as local soccer favorites Chivas take on their huge Mexico City rivals America in the game referred to as El Clasico. After six games of the season, Chivas are in fourth place in the 18-team table. Kick of...
Lakeside Presbyterian Church has welcomed Dr. Wayne Cook as its new Pastor of Congregational Care. His ministry will be responsible for supporting church members in sorrow, sickness and setbacks, ranging from hospital and shut-in visits, counseling for those suffering hard times and fellowship for t...
Lakeside Presbyterian Church has welcomed Dr. Wayne Cook as its new Pastor of Congregational Care. His ministry will be responsible for supporting church members in sorrow, sickness and setbacks, ranging from hospital and shut-in visits, counseling for those suffering hard times and fellowship for t...
Rotary mixer
The Chapala Sunrise Rotary Club’s mixer, Friday, August 4 was a rousing success.
Horseback & Mariachis
Mariachi Real Axixic celebrates their first anniversary with a horseback ride, a mass and a concert Friday, August 4.
The fifth annual gay pride festival in Puerto Vallarta will take place the week of May 21-28. Seven days of revelry blast off Sunday, May 21 with the welcoming party at Mantamar Beach Club.
The Salty Paw Jazz Orchestra, Puerto Vallarta’s only youth-based jazz orchestra, returns to the Jazz Foundation on Sunday, May 7, 7 p.m. for the third presentation of its First-Sunday-of-the-Month concert series.
A neighbor in need
Claudia Reyes, a young mother and daughter of local drummer Julio Reyes, has been fighting cancer for over a year. She is now in need of a bone marrow transplant.
Animal Shelter
The no-kill cat shelter, Paraiso Felino, is inviting everyone to come and help them celebrate their 10th anniversary.
Best Little Coffee Café
Tucked into a little corner shop of the Grand Caymen Hotel, located on Lazaro Cardenas, the main street coming into La Manzanilla, Café du Calcetin brews up the best cup of joe you can get on the Costa Allegra.
‘Sylvia’
Bare Bones Readers Theatre’s premier of “Sylvia,” a two-act play written by A. R. Gruny and directed by La Manzanilla’s own Arleen Pace, was, in my opinion, the best night of entertainment held this season.
On our way home
By the time you read this column, we will be on the long trek back to our home in Canada. It’s a bittersweet time to be sure. We drive here in October from our cottage north of Toronto, Ontario. So many people are curious about the journey that we thought we would tell you abo...
When in Rome … Mexico
In his book “The Brain Power Workout,” author Joel Levy states that learning new tasks, such as discovering a new language, is one of the best ways to stimulate brain power.
Politically Active
Democrats Abroad Costa Banderas will hold their annual meeting on Monday, March 20, from 5-7 p.m. on the upstairs terrace at No Way José! Restaurant in Old Town Puerto Vallarta, 5 de Febrero 260.
Politically Active
Democrats Abroad Costa Banderas will hold their annual meeting on Monday, March 20, from 5-7 p.m. on the upstairs terrace at No Way José! Restaurant in Old Town Puerto Vallarta, 5 de Febrero 260.
1967
Golf course on track
As the new golf course of the Country Club de Chapala nears completion, golfers and vacationers from the Guadalajara area are visiting San Nicolas de Ibarra in increasing numbers. Although the new road will not be completed until late June, the road from Chapala is servic...
1967
Reporter makes the Congressional Record
From Editor Bob Thurston’s Potpourri column: The REPORTER finally made it into the U.S. Congressional Record. Between a poem by a Vietnam serviceman and an appropriations bill is the Potpourri column of April 22, 1967, in which our friend, P...
Aeromexico this month started its new daily (except Tuesdays) direct service from Guadalajara to San Jose, California in conjunction with Delta Airlines.
San Miguel de Allende has been named the world’s top destination for 2017 by Travel + Leisure Magazine, a publication upscale enough so that even the website feels glossy.
Gourmet dining has almost as much to do with how you feel when you walk into a dining establishment as it does the food and service.
Waffles, crepes, omelets, hash browns – pretty standard stuff, right?
Not at Mina La Antigua, a new dining sensation at Lakeside. All these breakfast and brunch favorites are spread across a menu of over a hundred and twenty variations. That’s 70 waffle treatments, 40 crepes, dulce and ...
A new biography on the extraordinary life of the late Leonora Carrington, the British artist who made a name for herself in Mexico rather than in her own country, hit the real and virtual shelves last week.
In his documentary novel, “All They Will Call You,” Mexican-American author Tim Z. Hernandez tells the tragic story of a 1948 plane crash in California that killed 28 migrant workers being deported to Mexico. One victim was from Jocotepec.
It’s not just us humans who are feeling the calor in the days leading up to the start of the rainy season. Our pets almost certainly suffer as much as us – dogs especially.
There’s a less welcome aspect of spring that sneaks in with Jalisco’s sunshine and heat.
Two armed men Thursday robbed a bank customer of 275,000 pesos he had moments earlier withdrawn from the Banorte branch on Avenida Pablo Neruda, at Terranova and Alberta.
The assailants fired a shot into the air before threatening their victim and relieving him of his cash. They fled on a mot...
Feeling a bit of the excitement promised by the name – “¡A volar!” (Let’s fly!) – of the new bird exhibit at Guadalajara’s Museo de Paleontología (Museum of Paleontology),
Carlos Lomelí Bolaños, the pharmaceutical magnate and federal congressman for the left-of-center Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), is donating medical supplies to residents in the lakeshore town of Poncitlan, where dozens of cases of kidney failure have been reported.
Motorists beware while traveling the back streets of central Chapala. A major street repair project for a three-block segment of Calle Zaragoza under way this week will spawn detours and anticipated traffic jams in the vicinity.
The Mexican government is analyzing the possibility of importing avocados during the “high” season when exports from this country to the United States and other nations are at their highest.
Checkered doesn’t even begin to describe the tragi-comical saga of the Zapotillo Dam project in north-eastern Jalisco.
The recent emergence in Mexico of phishing, which Google defines as “the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information,
A bill proposed by the independent lawmaker Pedro Kumamoto to dramatically cut the funding of political parties in Mexico was approved by the Jalisco Congress back in June.
San Pancho, Sayulita’s more mild-mannered neighbor in the state of Nayarit, will host a three-day surf competition the weekend of July 21-23.
Puerto Vallarta now has eight beaches with Blue Flag “cleanliness” certification and a ninth is on the way, according to Mayor Arturo Davalos.
“What you see here today is a travesty,” Congressman Joaquín Castro declared to a small, hushed crowd.
June 14 is Flag Day. This marks the day in 1777 when the stars-and-stripes version of the flag was declared our country’s official symbol over other flags used by revolutionary militias.
$ doesn’t follow degree
In Mexico, monthly pay for a postgraduate degree employee fell by 10,000 pesos between 2005 and 2016, according to a study by the Salary Observatory of the University Iberoamericano Puebla.
The initial public offering for tequila producer Jose Cuervo on the Mexican Stock Exchange this week was at least four times oversubscribed, according to reports in several business journals.
Bloomberg reported that Jose Cuervo sold about US$790 million of shares in Mexico’s biggest equity of...
Jane M. Payette
Jane M. Payette died Saturday, July 22 from natural causes, at her home in Chapala at the age of 84.
Richard Freed
Richard Freed, a resident of Roca Azul, Jocotepec, died at home Friday, July 7 at the age of 79, with his wife Rosalind holding his hand.
While women’s soccer in Mexico has never caught on in the same manner as in the United States or Canada, great strides are nonetheless being made south of the border.
A Zapopan city councilor wants his municipality to take a lead in trying to eradicate the homophobic chant of “eeeeh puto” that many Mexican soccer fans yell every time an opposition goalie takes a goal kick.
