Expat Living

Jazz nights

Café Andre Breton has weekly lineups for live jazz. Every Tuesday, it’s “Bourbon St.” with Lalo Melgar on guitar and Christian Jimenez playing keyboards. Then on Wednesdays it’s time for the Jazz Jam Sessions with Willy Zavala, from 9.30 p.m. Entry is free to both events. The Smoke Rings Quartet will also be playing this Saturday, from 9.30 p.m. Entry is 30 pesos. The Café Andre Breton is on Juan Manuel 175 in the Centro Historico. For reservations call 3345-2194.

Ambulante

Billed as Mexico’s most important documentary film forum, the Ambulante tour has arrived in Guadalajara. Over 80 documentaries will be screened in eight locations across the city: the University of Guadalajara’s Cine Foro, the Museo de Arte de Zapopan, the Centro de Medios Audiovisuales, the Museo de la Ciudad, the Casa Clavijero, ITESO, the Cinepolis in Centro Magno, and an open-air stage at the Explanada Mexicaltzingo. The festival ends Wednesday, April 18. For more information visit www.ambulante.com.mx.

Being Jack Unterweger

John Malkovich is coming to the Pearl of the West to star in “The Infernal Comedy,” a play about Jack Unterweger. Unterweger was an Austrian serial killer whose autobiography and plays written in prison earned him the admiration of Austria’s intellectuals, who, convinced of his rehabilitation, successfully petitioned for his early release in 1990. Unterweger traveled the world in his new career as a star journalist, but a new trail of dead women soon caught up with him. Malkovich and playwright Michael Sturminger focus on the dichotomies in the charming writer and murderer of women.

Rorschach art exhibit

A peculiar exhibition of “Rorschach heads” by José Manuel Ciria that goes by the name “Miradas Especulares” has opened at the Museo de Arte Raul Anguiano (MURA). Ciria based his collection of expressive faces on psychology, hoping to hold a mirror up to the viewer.

AIDS prevention

Organized by the State Council for the Prevention of AIDS (Coesida), the ninth AIDS Prevention Fair takes place in the Plaza de la Liberacion on Saturday, March 24 from 2-8 p.m. There will be music, games and theater, with the aim of teaching children in a creative manner about protection against sexual abuse and discrimination. According to Coesida, 184 children in Jalisco have contracted HIV since 1983. Up until October 2011, there have been 12,364 cases of HIV or AIDS in Jalisco.

National holiday

On Monday, March 16, Mexico marks the birth of Benito Juarez, one of the nation’s most respected presidents.