It’s that time of year again, folks.  What time, you ask? Ramadan? Kwanzaa? Rosh Hashanah? To all those wild guesses I say: wrong, wrong, and wrong again.

Next week, Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 opera “Pagliacci” – or Payasos, in Spanish – is coming in all its melodramatic, murderous glory to Guadalajara’s grand dame theater, Teatro Degollado.

Extra ballet shows

Due to popular demand, the Ballet de Jalisco adds two more presentations of the ballet “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” featuring the music of Rachmaninoff,  Tchaikovsky, Wolf-Ferrari, Saint-Säens, Moniuszko, and Khachaturian.

United Airlines is celebrating 50 years doing business in Mexico by unveiling a new mural in the heart of Guadalajara, which makes for a total of four sponsored by the company in Mexico; the others are located in Queretaro, Leon and Puebla.

“La Feria,” one of late Jalisco author Juan Jose Arreola’s most celebrated works, will be read out loud by more than 400 people in a marathon session on World Book Day, Monday, April 23.

A massive new mural called “Despertar” has brightened up the drab facade of a multi-story union headquarters between Parque Morelos and Mercado San Juan de Dios.