The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The fiercest fire of the hot season so far tore through Bosque La Primavera, the large area of forest to the west of Guadalajara sometimes known as the city’s lungs, for abou...
Conservative Jalisco is not a natural stomping ground for leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to trumpet his platform.
In 75 cities around Mexico, including Guadalajara, doctors came together to protest the arrest of two doctors in Oaxaca, who were detained last week after a boy in their care died ...
Chapala firefighter is recovering from first- and second-degree burns sustained while battling a brush fire Saturday, April 7 in the vicinity of the regional prison located in Haci...
Bill Wolff has been missing since 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4. He was last s...
The yearly “Via Crucis” (stations of the cross) migrant caravan, who...
Data released this week by the National Statistics Agency (Inegi) showed the con...
“When two dreams come together, wonderful things happen,” proclaimed...
After a successful recent event in Ajijic, the United States Consulate General i...
Bobby Lee Moore
Bobby Lee Moore passed away peacefully on Monday, March 26 afte...
While those living lakeside won’t be as affected by the following news as ...
Five years after founding a shelter in Tijuana for banished veterans and two yea...
The Guadalajara Chivas have advanced to the final of the CONCACAF Champions Leag...
Tipping is woven into the fabric of Mexico’s social culture, chiefly becau...
A recent photograph published in this newspaper of some 20 young students holdin...
It seems as if every village in Mexico with a couple of old churches and a few d...
If you’re new to Mexico and find yourself stricken by a tummy bug, you are...
Jitomate Gourmet – a unique, compact gourmet sala, modestly but deftly dec...
“Nonfigurative” may be the perfect word to describe the work of Dani...
A National Geographic multimedia concert featuring symphonic music and eye-poppi...
Legion language practice
American Legion Post 7 Chapala is expecting a visit by...
Semana Santa
Every condo, casita, hotel room and campsite was filled with famil...
Un-mothball your windbreaker, polish your binocular lens and ready your soul to ...
Window closing, not door
It’s the beginning of April and many who have jo...
Abundant Life Church
Norma Johnson will be with the congregation Sunday, April ...
Pet Picnic
The annual Bucerias Pet Picnic was held recently at the Abuelos de B...
Cookoff update
The 6th Annual Chili Cook Off, sponsored by the Jay Sadler Proje...
I’ve had opportunity to go hiking with archaeologists, geologists, biologi...
Four of the five states registering the heftiest increases in violence in 2017 a...
Cosmetic surgery is often viewed as our interminable battle against aging. What ...
We got there early. In the corral behind Eustacio Ortiz’s tarpaper jacal, ...
I had planned on writing a nice, lengthy, last column worthy of the place I&rsqu...
Recently in this column I chronicled the story of the client who survived the lo...
The current uproar over a presumed rise in crime is troubling many lakeside area...
U.S. jazz singer Gretchen Parlato, among the most lauded of her generation, is c...
Game Night
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselve...
The last play of the Lakeside Little Theatre season is Sarah Ruhl’s 2004 &...
Wonderful World Trio
The trio of Jim Barto on trumpet and flugelhorn, Cindy Pau...
Ballet de Jalisco
After receiving rave reviews in previous years, the Ballet de Jalisco returns with seven presentations of the ballet “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” featuring the music of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikowsky, Wolf-Ferrari, Saint-Säenz, Moniuszko, and Khachaturian. Chor...
Ballet de Jalisco
After receiving rave reviews in previous years, the Ballet de Jalisco returns with seven presentations of the ballet “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” featuring the music of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikowsky, Wolf-Ferrari, Saint-Säenz, Moniuszko, and Khachaturian...
The last play of the Lakeside Little Theatre season is Sarah Ruhl’s 2004 “The Clean House.”
Local theater goers are in for another treat at Naked Stage with the upcoming reading performance of “The Quality of Life” by Jane Anderson, running Friday, March 30 to Sunday, April 1.
LLT playhouse series
Lakeside Little Theatre screens the National Theatre Live presentation of Simon Stone’s radical production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma,” Saturday and Sunday, April 7 and 8, 3 p.m.
LLT season finale
“The Clean House,” written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Russell Mack, continues at Lakeside Little Theatre, Friday, March 30 through Sunday, April 1.
Red Sparrow
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon.
12 Strong
12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down for the Taliban.
On Saturday, March 31, Pedro Álvarez Icaza went out for a run in the woods bordering the rural community of Pinar de la Venta, located eight kilometers west of Guadalajara, and my home for many years.
Large wild animals need space to roam, to find food and mates. Highways limit this space and can result in the slow “strangulation” of certain species, without mentioning the thousands of animals of all sizes that are killed simply trying to cross the road.
We got there early. In the corral behind Eustacio Ortiz’s tarpaper jacal, we stacked gunny sacks of chayote, wild camote, jicama, oranges, limones, peanuts, sugared candies.
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.
Recently in this column I chronicled the story of the client who survived the loss of her computer because she had planned ahead and had done everything right.
One of my clients recently suffered an unfortunate loss, the fallout from which was mitigated by her having a very good disaster plan.
Four of the five states registering the heftiest increases in violence in 2017 are not governed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), José Antonio Meade, the party’s nominee for president, pointed out during his first visit to Guadalajara at the end of last month.
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...
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...
While Mexican citizens have been muddling over expectations for the 2018 national, state and local elections for many months, most resident expats at lakeside have remained blissfully oblivious to the hottest topic on the nation’s social agenda.
Not long ago, as the Reporter’s lakeside staff sat around chewing the fat at a rare social gathering, a colleague remarked that he was mystified by the title of this section of the newspaper.
Lately, I have found myself slumped over my laptop longing for the good old days when a handful of friends could get together and kibitz at someone’s home or a local bistro just to fill up a lazy afternoon and empty a few tumblers.
Without any warnings, I find out a record number of people in Mexico believed they’re possessed and are seeking exorcisms. This is worrying, because all I have in my bodega is some raccoon repellent. And it never worked.
A National Geographic multimedia concert featuring symphonic music and eye-popping footage of Earth’s natural bounty will come to Guadalajara next month.
Lovers of Mexican arts and crafts should head over to the Plaza Liberacion in Guadalajara’s centro historico this weekend for the final days of a fair that has been going on throughout the Easter holidays.
‘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...
HU Chant
Chanting HU, an ancient name for the Divine while in a contemplative state, is a simple technique to open your heart to greater happiness, love, inner peace and understanding.
The Chapala Sunrise Rotary Club (CSRC), in partnership with community members from Mezcala, have completed the building of a structure that will serve as a rainwater collection and filtration point as well as a community “store” that will support the sale of produce to help sustain four ...
LCS Wine Tasting
The Lake Chapala Society holds its third annual wine tasting, Saturday April 7, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Tickets, 150 pesos for members, 180 pesos non-members and 200 pesos on the day of the event, are available at the LCS office.
Open Circle
Susa Silvermarie will present “The Fool’s Way to Joyful Aging” at the next meeting of Open Circle, Sunday, April 1, 10:30 a.m. on the patio of the Lake Chapala Society (LCS).
Un-mothball your windbreaker, polish your binocular lens and ready your soul to shiver in awe at the sight of the ocean’s great mammalian leviathans, for whale watching season is upon us once again.
The Cuale River is one of the Vallarta-area’s principal attractions, a green snake winding its way through the western Sierra Madre mountains before it empties into the sea right in the middle of Puerto Vallarta proper.
Pet Picnic
The annual Bucerias Pet Picnic was held recently at the Abuelos de Bucerias Tercera Edad senior center.
Working vacation
You are coming to Bucerias, one of the most popular beach resort towns in the state of Nayarit, to do some upkeep on your family’s rental property. A week should be long enough to get the work done.
Semana Santa
Every condo, casita, hotel room and campsite was filled with families, music and fun.
Cisco’s Amigo’s success
Success cannot adequately describe the outstanding accomplishment of the recent clinic held here in La Manzanilla.
Window closing, not door
It’s the beginning of April and many who have joined the community to escape all or part of the northern climes are planning their travels home.
Celebrating Easter
Mexican Easter celebrations begin on Palm Sunday, March 25 and end on Saturday, April 7.
Cookoff update
The 6th Annual Chili Cook Off, sponsored by the Jay Sadler Project, raised 101,000 pesos, thanks to the many participants:
Chorus fundraiser
The Puerto Vallarta Gay Men’s Chorus holds its sixth annual fundraising gala – Crystal Ball, an Evening Under the Stars – on Friday, March 23, 7 p.m. at the Casa Karma Boutique Resort (Barra de Navidad 1247, Conchas Chinas).
Tipping is woven into the fabric of Mexico’s social culture, chiefly because of its informal, cash-driven economy.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our August editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Mexico’s National Health, Inoculation and Agricultural Quality Service (SENASICA) has initiated a program making it easier for pet owners to travel with their (most commonly) hirsute companions.
Kayak, a web-based company known for hooking travelers up with accommodations and flights for a discount, has released the 2018 edition of its annual Travel Hacker Guide.
Jitomate Gourmet – a unique, compact gourmet sala, modestly but deftly decorated for gourmet presentations – is known for its bada-bing Italian pizzas, reputed to be the best pizzas around (a cliché these days – but not at lakeside), chiefly because their standards are authe...
Ajijic restaurant patrons: here’s an ALERT: if you often choose your dining spots on the basis of location, especially those of you who believe all the best restaurants are on the east end or in the center of town, you owe it to yourself and your Ajijic dining credentials to pay a visit to El ...
A recent photograph published in this newspaper of some 20 young students holding up this pamphlet, Aves del Lago de Chapala, at the reopening of the Alexander Humboldt bird watching trail in San Antonio Tlayacapan made us look into where the young ladies found their birding literature.
If you’re new to Mexico and find yourself stricken by a tummy bug, you are not alone.
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.
Bill Wolff has been missing since 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4. He was last seen in Ajijic on Calle Colon driving a 1996 black Mercedes Benz, license plate: U98SARB.
For the second year, Guadalajara’s Barrio de Analco neighborhood staged a dramatic Good Friday Marcha del Silencio (Procession of Silence) to honor Our Lady of Solitude.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Lakeside Garden Guild adopted sponsorship of a stunning sculpture by Estela Hidalgo, created in fond remembrance of longtime Ajijic resident Juanita Hidano Reed.
After the hectic Easter vacation period ends April 8, life quiets down in the lakeside area until the end of the month.
Arandas, a sleepy town of some 80,000 in the farm-rich Los Altos region of Jalisco, may not figure on the “must see” lists of many visitors to this state.
The breeze in Guadalajara and around Lake Chapala can be deceptive, making many, especially newcomers and visitors, think they have little to fear from the sun.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins in Mexico on Sunday, April 1 at 2 a.m. Clocks must be turned forward one hour.
The bit of political vaudeville known as “La Niña Bien,” a music video in which a “Good Girl” – code, in Mexico, for a rich but somewhat gauche young woman – proclaims her intention to vote for leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AML...
After a successful recent event in Ajijic, the United States Consulate General in Guadalajara will be hosting an information fair for expats in the Puerto Vallarta area next week.
One might ask why Mexicans so embrace St. Patrick’s Day and the celebration of Ireland’s patron saint.
Last Tuesday, U.S. president Donald Trump paid a visit to a bare patch of desert outside of San Diego to inspect border wall prototypes, looking over them in the baking heat not unlike, perhaps, the way a demanding fashion designer peruses a series of fabric swatches.
Tah-dah! The U.S. tax bill is the law of the land. Lots of major changes, too many to go over, but I will select just a few income tax items worthy of note to those who live and play outside the United States.That’s Mexico, for us!
Data released this week by the National Statistics Agency (Inegi) showed the consumer price index to have risen by 0.59 percent in December, leaving inflation for 2017 at 6.77 percent – the highest level since 2000, when the rate was 8.96 percent.
$ 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.
Glenn Wilson Hatfield
Glenn Wilson Hatfield, 88, died on October 13, 2017, at his home in the Rossmoor retirement community of Walnut Creek, California, after a fall that fractured his hip and a hospitalization at John Muir hospital.
Ross C. Brownridge
Ross C. Brownridge, a longtime resident of the lakeside area, died at Casa Anastasia in Ajijic on Tuesday, February 6, at the age of 88.
Guadalajara boxing legend Saul “Canelo” Alvarez prepares to throw the opening pitch of the 2018 Serie de Caribe, held at the Charros Stadium in Zapopan.
Guadalajara boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will face off in an eagerly anticipated rematch on May 5.
