The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Before the show, a couple is overheard talking:
Her: You know there’s a lot of profanity in this play?
Him: That’s why I came.
Her: Well it’s not why I came.
Lakeside appears to have digested all nine performances of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” with a good deal of satisfaction and nary a burp.
Once again, it’s the time of year when music lovers start anticipating the next Northern Lights Music Festival, now to be called Northern Lights Festival de Febrero. Every year, festival organizers say that it keeps getting better and better, and although it is hard to believe, this year is, in fact, better than ever. The line-up of truly stellar performers is astonishing, and especially so because this is Ajijic, not New York or Toronto, and because the ticket prices are Lakeside’s most attractive bargain.
Galeria al Aire Libre Axixic (GALA) will come to life Saturday, February 6, 4 p.m., introducing a ground-breaking concept for an open-air art gallery set at the Ajijic plaza that will be tied into stimulus for social activism.
Along with all the national holidays and festivities that will be observed during 2016, there will be many special celebrations going on in the Lake Chapala area. Check the Reporter’s pages for news of big events the local government will be scheduling month by month. Meanwhile, here’s a glance at the principal fiestas patronales honoring religious patrons and important saints, plus other traditional happenings that will keep the community jumping through the year:
The townspeople of Jocotepec and pilgrims from near and far will congregate over the next two weeks to reaffirm their Christian faith and manifest devotion to the local spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount).
The droll and dry former stand-up comic Michael McLaughlin is effusive, practically effervescent as he describes the features of “Song and Dance Lip Sync 8.”
For folks hankering to ring in 2016 with a bang, the Chapala government has lined up its first Festival del Año Nuevo for Thursday, December 31, starting around 10 p.m. at the Fuente de Pescadores, Avenida Madero at Paseo Ramón Corona.
