The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
How is it that a Canadian couple breeze into Guadalajara for a one-week visit, are initially overwhelmed by this buzzing city, but end up staying for two months and canceling their around-the-world travel plans so they can embark on an artistic project aimed at humanizing the people who sell gum and wash windows on city streets, and then miraculously manage to get their project exhibited in a coveted public venue?
The TlaquepArte crafts extravaganza keeps getting better and better and more popular than ever with the foreign community.
Two legends of 1960s rock and folk are due to perform in Guadalajara just days apart in May: Sir Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan.
As the 27th Guadalajara Film Festival bore down on its close this week, Friday’s narco blockades threw some confusion on the event. Visitors wondered whether Saturday’s closing ceremony would go on as scheduled, with a few Friday night red carpet and party events suspended. However, when the Saturday sun broke, the festival went forward unabated.
On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, (March 17, 18 and 19) Avenida Chapultepec and environs will rev up with a music festival initiated 12 years ago by the government of France and continued every year since then by Guadalajara City Hall.
Choirs from seven countries will be taking part in an expanded third Festival Internacional de Coros Jalisco Canta from April 21 to 28.
To accommodate scenery construction for an upcoming play, the third program of concerts by the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) has been moved a few hundred yards from the Degollado Theater to the State Government Palace (Palacio de Gobierno).
