Applications are now being accepted from artists and companies to pitch their projects (either in development or recently premiered and not toured outside their region of origin) at a biannual congress of the International Society for Performing Arts (ISPA), which will be held in Guadalajara at the end of May.

So angered are the residents of Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana at the insecurity in the zone that they decoded to shame local authorities by stringing banners across neighborhood streets to highlight the situation.

The Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG) General Council this week elected Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí to serve as its rector for the period 2019-2025.

Fees have been established for Guadalajara’s new planetarium (Lunaria), feted as one of the most modern of its kind on the American continent.

GENDER VIOLENCE CALLS INCREASE – This past year in Jalisco, the number of gender violence-related 911 calls increased 25 percent on 2017 – 13,336 compared to 10,700, according to the National Secretariat of Public Security.

An attempted robbery in Zapopan’s Ciudadela Mall (Patria and Moctezuma) resulted in a gun-related death on January 30.