Last weekend, neither director Guillermo Del Toro nor his birth city of Guadalajara so much asfeigned interest in winding down their separate victory laps, which began after Del Toro won two Oscars, March 4, for his efforts at the helm of “The Shape of Water.”

Hometown hero Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar triumph on Sunday (where he scooped up Best Director and Best Picture trophies) was celebrated in typically exuberant Tapatio style near the city’s famed arches (Los Arcos) on Avenida Vallarta, where revelers toted a giant facsimile of Oscar himself, along with a cardboard caricature of the bespectacled cineaste.

The first electric calandrias that will replace the traditional horse-drawn carriages are currently being tested on the city center’s streets. 

A fresh wave of homicides rocked Guadalajara last week, following on the heels of a similar rash of murders last month.

Since 2007, the Guadalajara non-profit FM4 Paso Libre has made it its mission to help Central American migrants passing through the city on their way to the United States. 

Luis Carlos Nájera Gutiérrez, the former attorney general of Jalisco, is back in the spotlight after being named state Labor Secretary by Governor Aristoteles Sandoval.