Expat Living

Lovers of Mexican arts and crafts should head over to the Plaza Liberacion in Guadalajara’s centro historico this weekend for the final days of a fair that has been going on throughout the Easter holidays.

The current apple of the eye of the world’s cinema community, Guillermo del Toro, the Guadalajara-born director of the acclaimed “Shape of Water,” has been accused of pilfering plot elements from the play of a deceased Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright.

Rogelio Padilla Díaz, the founder of Movimiento de Apoyo a Menores Abandonados (MAMA), the highly respected organization that provides support for the legion of children and adolescents living and working on the streets of Guadalajara, died this week at the age of 62.

The Guadalajara chapter of Democrats Abroad (DA) has programmed a series of events, beginning Sunday, January 28, that combine cinema with get-out-the-vote action – action with the primary aim of diluting U.S President Donald Trump’s congressional alliances vis-a-vis the Senate and House elections in November.

Thomas Kunkel, who in 2011 arrived at the bilingual Christ the Redeemer Church on Guadalajara’s south edge and took over as full-time pastor in 2016, credits his background in counseling for his focus on how core Christian beliefs can be applied in everyday life.

As far as Tapatios are concerned, the temperatures this week have been of polar propensity.