General News

A smart thinking convenience store employee saved a 74-year-old woman several thousand pesos after noticing that she was nervous as she tried to make a cash deposit this week.

Zapopan city hall has put in place a dry law (no alcohol sales) during the Romeria celebration on Wednesday, October 12 when the Virgin of Zapopan statue is taken from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Zapopan basilica in a procession over nine kilometers of city streets watched by more than a million people.

An exhibition at the Regional Museum of Ceramics in Tlaquepaque honors Ken Edwards, the internationally famed U.S.-born ceramicist who installed the first high-temperature kiln in Mexico and produced ceramics renowned for incorporating traditional Tonala designs.

Diners at a restaurant and a cafe in the upscale Puerto de Hierro commercial complex dived under tables and covered their children with their bodies when a criminal gang exchanged gunfire with the bodyguards of a kidnapping target just yards from where they were enjoying relaxing Sunday afternoon meals.

After two years of absence due to Covid, the 14th Festival de la Cerveza de Guadalajara will be up and running again Friday, October 14 through Sunday, October 16, 2 p.m. to midnight, on the grounds of the Akron Stadium located just off the Periferico and Avenida Vallarta.

Extra non-stop flights to Madrid

Aeromexico will increase the number of its non-stop flights between Guadalajara and Madrid, Spain to five per week as of December 11. 

While the rest of the country marks Dia de la Raza (Columbus Day) on Wednesday, October 12, in Guadalajara the Italian sailor who stumbled across a continent and its people 519 years ago gets trumped by a diminutive miracle worker.

Cyclists from Jalisco, Mexico and other parts of the world will ride the streets of Guadalajara on Sunday, October 2, in the first Gran Fondo Cycling Challenge event to take place in the city.