It took four attempts to establish Guadalajara. Spanish lawyer and slave trader Nuño de Guzmán, hoping to redeem himself by conquering new lands, founded a capital but failed to defend it.

How many famous professional actors, directors, stage managers, set designers and others have caught the theater bug while participating in school or university productions? Far too many to count!

In “Tiger Within,” Ed Asner plays the full dramatic as Samuel, a lonely Holocaust survivor who begins an unlikely relationship with Casey (Margot Josefohn) a disaffected 14-year-old runaway, turned sex worker who thinks it’s pretty cool to wear a swastika on her leather jacket.

General Ramón Corona is one of Jalisco’s most revered figures. Numerous streets and avenues bear his name, as does the town of Villa Corona, and his statue was among the first to be placed in the Rotunda of Illustrious Citizens in downtown Guadalajara.

“Emilia Pérez,” the controversial movie about a Mexican drug lord who changes gender, premiered in cinemas across Mexico on Thursday, January 23. Coincidentally, this was the same day the thriller-musical was nominated for a record 13 Academy Awards.

When the three youthful directors of the documentary, “Golda” (Meir), were close to completing their film, they had a huge stroke of luck: They discovered some never before seen archival footage of an off the record conversation among Golda Meir and two interviewers.