At a recent Friday-night gathering in Guadalajara, the assignment was simple: roll your own Vietnamese spring rolls, pour a drink, meet someone new — and help support migrants and refugees.

A routine maintenance project became a hands-on lesson in traditional architecture last weekend at the Parque Agroecológico Zapopan, where participants repaired six bajareque panels as part of the annual Festival de la Tierra activities.

Guadalajara has dozens of green spaces, but these four are among the very best. Thanks to the city’s central management under the Agencia Metropolitana de Bosques Urbanos, entry to all four of these beautiful public spaces is now completely free of charge.

One hundred years ago this month, a law that few Mexicans today have probably ever heard of set off one of the bloodiest and strangest conflicts in the country’s history — the Cristero War. 

In ancient Greece, the quince was known as the sacred fruit of the Goddess Aphrodite, a symbol of love, sweetness, fertility and prosperity.

The grisly crocodile attack June 25 in front of the Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort has provoked morbid fascination, platitudes by hotels, lists of rules, and a flurry of reported croc sightings and educational material. The basics of the incident — a four-meter-long reptile lunging at and dragging off a 28-year-old tourist taking photos at a popular beach — fly in the face of PV’s fun-in-the-sun ambiance.