The following interview is with Maryanne Gibbard, Wendy Hamblin and Leslie Martin, three women who have been performing for many years in the annual benefit Lip Sync show – a 12-year tradition at Lakeside.  Funds from this year’s show will go toward improvements to Auditorio de la Ribera.

“The Real Inspector Hound” and “After Magritte” at Lakeside Little Theatre last week featured two one-act plays deftly presented by director Randy Warren and representing the influences that shaped playwright Tom Stoppard, particularly the work of surrealist painters Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte.

A retrospective look at the work of a local photographer opened Saturday, December 7 in the second floor gallery at the Centro Cultural de Ajijic (CCA).

Fine crafts, folk art, cultural traditions and regional cuisine brought in from indigenous pueblos in the state of Michoacán will be showcased at the Fiesta Purépecha scheduled Thursday, December 12 through Sunday, December 15 at the Ajijic plaza.

Curtains rise at the Auditorio de la Ribera on an over-the-top cabaret show Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21.

The Orquesta Típica de Chapala (OTCH) will celebrate its ninth anniversary on Wednesday, November 20, 6:30 p.m. with a concert and dinner at La Bodega in Ajijic (Calle 16 de Septiembre 124).