A youth referred to only as “Isaac” who was involved in the deaths of two 15-year-old Guadalajara schoolboys in June last year has been sentenced to spend a maximum seven years in detention after a juvenile court judge found him guilty of kidnapping but not homicide.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto dropped into Guadalajara this week to cut the ribbon on a unique facility that will serve as a focal point for the development of innovative technology-and design- oriented projects in Jalisco.

When Barbara Sackl came to Mexico 15 years ago, it was due to an invitation from an Austrian anthropologist for a trip to Chiapas  — a trip that ultimately didn’t pan out.

Devotees of modern and contemporary art (including those who know the difference) will want to know about the Raul Anguiano Museum of Art in Guadalajara and take in its current exhibit by international artists entitled “Maniera: Una formula para perder la identidad” (Maniera: A formula for losing your identity).

Karla Martinez doesn’t have a lot of leisure time to spend with the 54 cats in her modern home and shelter in midtown Guadalajara.

Fed up with being aroused at the crack of dawn by the deafening sound of rockets set off by exuberant Catholics celebrating religious holidays? Relief may be at hand.

The animal rights group Igualdad Animal Mexico is asking citizens to join them to protest the use of animals in circuses.

Around 100 activists protest the use of animal acts in circuses on Saturday, July 12. The demonstration took place outside a circus in the Guadalajara municipality. Zapopan city hall has previously banned the practice.

Jazz Festival

Presentations by artists participating in the Tonica Jazz Festival are slated at three locations along the route of the Via Recreativa on Sunday, July 13, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Farmer’s Market

Zapopan’s plush open-air Andares mall has started a Saturday Farmer’s Market where shoppers can purchase a wide range of items directly from producers.

Folk dance

The Universidad de  Guadalajara (UdG) Ballet Folklorico is gearing up for another summer season of exciting performances at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara. The 10-show folk dance season starts on Sunday, July 6.

St Mark’s Independence Day

Don’t miss the gala 4th of July celebration at Saint Mark’s Anglican Church on Sunday, July 6.

Learn about many of Jalisco’s 126 municipalities at a two-day, open-air expo/fair to be held in the esplanade in front of the Instituto Cultural Cabañas on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8.

The Vienna-based art foundation, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), has teamed up with the Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ) to present “Atopia, migración, legado y ausencia de lugar,” a collection of 25 works, including two installations, that “focuses on the practices and representations of the ways in which artists have accessed, rehearsed, participated in and negotiated concepts of ‘place’ or ‘place of origin,’ their past, heritage, and cultural ambiguities, with all the dilemmas such notions provoke.”

The celebrated Trompo Magico children’s museum is hosting a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of Guadalajara rock group Luis Delgadillo y los Keliguanes on Saturday, May 31, 4 p.m.

To keep sexual services out of esteticas masculina (men’s grooming salons), Guadalajara city councilors have turned over their revision from city license inspectors to police officers. According to some reports from sex workers at the salons, inspectors were warning them to get rid of any evidence of a sexual nature before official revisions.

Foreigners should find their dealings at the National Immigration Institute (INM) in Guadalajara far more comfortable now that the federal agency has moved from the fourth floor of the Palacio Federal to a new, larger office on the ground floor.

There’s another good reason not to talk on your cell phone while driving – apart from the fact that it’s dangerous and against the law.

The first time I encountered José Álvarez Franco, better known as Padre Patillas, or “Father Sideburns,” was during a baptismal service in his church in Tateposco when he referred to me as a “gringo” during the mass, prompting laughter throughout the congregation.

Guadalajara’s third subway (tren ligero) line will run underground only briefly as it cuts through downtown Guadalajara on its way from the center of Zapopan to the bus station in Tonala.