General News

Meet the perky gal who makes one-of-a-kind eyeglass frames made from discarded skateboards. And the Holy Mary artisans who produce soul-soothing scented candles in reusable hand-blown drinking glasses.

It will be ready, set, go on Sunday, August 28 when runners line up at the Ajijic waterfront for back-to-back races in the seventh edition of Ultra Trail Campanaria competition.

If you’re not already acquainted with Chapala’s Bambu Warriors, meet Christian Robertson and Geraldo Padilla, a bi-national pair of foot soldiers dedicated to battling global warming and environmental deterioration with a perennial evergreen belonging to the grass family as their decisive weapon.

After a two-year break due to the Covid pandemic, Guadalajara NGO Conectando Culturas, A.C. was able to resume an exchange program with university students in Germany this summer.

The lush grounds of Ajijic’s Garden of Dreams boutique B&B proved to be a splendid setting as the new venue for the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) once-a-month Art Market.

Right on cue, after the Guadalajara Reporter’s front page story last week on weather phenomena in the Lake Chapala region, a waterspout snaked down from a giant black cloud bank hovering over the water early Tuesday, August 9.

Women from lakeshore communities who have learned business skills to start up their own enterprises will be putting their products on the market at the Expo-Bazar taking place Monday and Tuesday, August 15 and 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the esplanade outside Vinos y Licores Paz, off the highway at Calle Independencia 163, San Antonio Tlayacapan.

The Festival del Lago’s musical staff and students will perform six more chamber music concerts beginning with a fundraising gala held Monday, August 8, 6 p.m.