The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco Civil Protection has issued a list of the six traffic tunnels in the metropolitan area that are most likely to be hit by flash flooding.
A large crowd of well-wishers flooded the celebrated Pierrot French restaurant in Guadalajara’s Colonia Ladrón de Guevara last week to help owner Pierre Dhainaut celebrate the 35th anniversary of its founding.
A Guadalajara man admitted strangling his wife to death because she didn’t have breakfast ready for him when he got up.
Anna Beam lives with a rare disease leaving her unable to digest food. Despite the diagnosis, devoted mom Christy relentlessly looks for a way to save her daughter. Everything changes when Anna tells an incredible story of a visit to heaven after surviving a terrible accident. Doctors become even more confused when the young girl begins to recover.
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson, Eugenio Derbez, John Carroll Lynch Rated: PG-13 Time: 1:49
Jalisco Governor Aristóteles Sandoval turned up among the throng of tourists visiting lakeside last Sunday, sending out this Twitter selfie along with a message reading, “At the Chapala Malecón greeting our people. We’re going for an ice cream!” The Jalisco chief executive was relaxing after finishing a two-day retreat with his cabinet held at a west-end Ajijic hotel. He scheduled a return visit for Friday, January 22 to preside at several official events before taking time off to celebrate his birthday.
Stepping out
Los Traficantes del Ritmo plays Adelita’s Bar & Grill in San Antonio Tlayacapan with Jonathan Guzman on vocals and guitar, Sergio Casas on bass and Chelo Gonzlez on drums, Friday April 1. Call 766-0097 for times and reservations.
Frank Martin, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank’s father pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend takes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century.
Director: Camille Delamarre. Cast :Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Gabriella Wright, Anatole Taubman, Samir Guesmi. Rated: PG-13. Time: 1:36.
Pretty much everyone has now heard of Mexican soap star Kate del Castillo, even if the circumstances of her new-found fame are almost certainly not of her choosing.
Mexico’s minimum wage will go up by around four percent from January 1. The daily rate will increase to approximately 73 pesos a day. Despite criticism from some left-wing politicians that the hike is paltry and fails to meet the needs of the country’s poorest citizens, Mexican government officials say the raise is above the inflation rate. Although only 13 percent of Mexico’s workforce earn the minimum salary, according to the federal statistics agency Inegi, the figure represents a benchmark for employers to negotiate wage increases.
