Strolling down Calle Colón, Ajijic’s bustling street that winds down to the malecon, it’s easy to spot a large, new mural covering a portion of the wall at the corner of 16 de Septiembre.

Working full-time in her Chapala studio, Deborah Kruger is inspired to create art that addresses the worldwide problem of habitat destruction and the ensuing domino effect on birds, especially species extinction.

Upon an examination of Guadalajara’s newly minted “COME, Gastronomic Corridor” undertaken on three separate occasions, that sobriquet – applied by Mayor Enrique Alfaro and a consortium of local business owners to a stretch of Avenida Mexico sandwiched between two giant roundabouts – seems like a linguistic swindle, a coat of paint perfunctorily applied to a brothel outhouse.

When the British sit down for their Christmas Day dinner they know it will end with a flourish.

Several agonizing years in the making, “Loving Vincent” has finally arrived with a vivid splash of color in theaters to hold cinephiles in thrall with its arresting, mesmerizing imagery. 

Growing up in a traditional Mexican family in the small village of Tlachichilco on the north shore of Lake Chapala, Jose Juan Vazquez felt he couldn’t go after his true passion to become a hair and makeup artist because his father, Cirilo, wouldn’t have accepted it.