The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A small fire destroyed one of the curtains in Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado on Tuesday. Outside the theater, witnesses noticed smoke billowing from the windows. A theater lamp started the flames at around 10:30 a.m., although theater personnel just as quickly extinguished them before firefighters arrived.
Guadalajara city hall has launched an artistic program to brighten the municipality by decorating 18 tunnel interiors and two bridges.
Culture Secretary Myriam Vachez recently opened the application process for local artists and graphic designers. The designs must be creative but not distract drivers, she said. The budget for the project is five million pesos.
The design to the left has already been approved for the tunnel at Washington and Inglaterra.
Parking up to a couple of hours in the Plaza Gallerias will set you back 19 pesos in fees. Watch a movie, have a meal, do some shopping, and you could face a 50-peso (or more) charge just for the privilege of leaving your car while you patronize the upscale mall.
The wails of more than 30 ambulances broke the usual intimacy of Christmas night in response to a mass poisoning at a drug rehabilitation center in Guadalajara’s La Perla neighborhood.
The number of pawn shops opening in the metropolitan area has doubled in the past two years – a clear sign that all is not right with the family pocketbook.
The State Transportation Department (SVT) has tinkered with the Chapalita glorieta in a bid to slow down traffic and make it easier for pedestrians to cross into the pretty, park-like sanctuary.
The stalled project to build a modern art museum beside the Huentitan Canyon on the northern outskirts of Guadalajara received a boost this week after Jalisco Tourism Secretary Aurelio Lopez Rocha signed an agreement with Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) Rector Marco Cortes that pledges to respect the integrity of the park adjoining the projected museum location overlooking the canyon.
The murky world of student politics in Guadalajara was exposed last week as five bodies were found on the premises of an unofficial university union with a history of violence.
Father Christmas is taking time out from delivering presents this year to engage in a brave bout of swimming in the shark tank at the Guadalajara Zoo.
