French actress Juliette Binoche is the guest of honor at this year’s Morelia International Film Festival from October 17 to 26. The stated mission of the festival is to “promote new talents in Mexican cinema, increase the offering of quality cinema and to contribute to the culture and tourism in the state of Michoacán.” Binoche will give a master class in acting on Monday, October 20, 7 p.m., an event that will be broadcast live on the festival website athttp://moreliafilmfest.com.

A critically acclaimed European exhibit on the doomed Titanic liner, that sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April 1912, is set to open in the Parque Guanajuato Bicentenario in Silao, Guanajuato on October 25.

A handful of speed enforcement cameras have generated more income in fines this year than all the handwritten tickets (folios) issued by 1,800 traffic cops in the entire state of Jalisco.

Guadalajara’s annual procession honoring the revered Virgin of Zapopan will be submitted as a candidate for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage status, Zapopan Mayor Hector Robles announced Monday.

Following a recent public poll, legislation to permit the medical use of marijuana in Jalisco will proceed but the move to relax laws on recreational use will be dropped.

Jalisco is safer than ever before, Attorney General Luis Carlos Najera boldly told state lawmakers at a Congressional hearing in which he defended his record as chief of the recently created Fiscalia del Estado during the past 18 months.