The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Robin Matthewman has touched down in the city to take up her new posting as U.S. Consul General in Guadalajara.
Heads have rolled after a refrigerator truck containing 157 unidentified corpses from the Guadalajara morgue was found abandoned in a field adjoining a subdivision in Tlajomulco.
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador this week paid his first visit to Guadalajara since his landslide July 1 election victory — part of a national “Tour...
For well over a century visitors have flocked to Chapala to enjoy lounging on the shoreline of Mexico’s largest lake.
Electronics giant Samsung has opened its first branded store in Guadalajara &nda...
Mexican President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has invited Russian Presiden...
It’s been 75 years since the arrival in Mexico of the British Council, a q...
Chapala’s faithful will honor patron saint San Francisco de Asís wi...
Forty underage girls at risk of being trafficked were rescued last Saturday in P...
Robert Lewis Pattison
Robert Lewis Pattison died in his sleep of natural causes...
Dissatisfied with the August 31 decision of Jalisco’s Electoral Tribunal (...
In multilateral meetings around the world, policies related to junk food, mother...
Golfer Abraham Ancer failed in his bid to become the first Mexican to win a PGA ...
Tipping is woven into the fabric of Mexico’s social culture, chiefly becau...
‘Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Toge...
Those keen to travel through Mexico’s glorious Copper Canyon in luxurious ...
If you’re new to Mexico and find yourself stricken by a tummy bug, you are...
It is always a pleasure to discover a great new Guadalajara restaurant when you ...
Fiestas and celebrations throughout the Republic and abroad commemorated Mexican...
A massive cult following has grown over the past five decades based around a lin...
U.S. Voter Assistance
All U.S. and dual-U.S. citizens who will not be in the Un...
Semana Santa
Every condo, casita, hotel room and campsite was filled with famil...
Ten months after work began, a 15-kilometer stretch of highway between Mascota a...
Window closing, not door
It’s the beginning of April and many who have jo...
On September 15, approximately 70 guests attended the Niños de Chapala y ...
Pet Picnic
The annual Bucerias Pet Picnic was held recently at the Abuelos de B...
The Jalisco coast, already kind of a big deal in the world of turtle enthusiasts...
My wife, Susy Ibarra, has been a Spanish teacher for most of her life.
Violence, corruption, reform? Over the ensuing years, historians may be di...
Everything in Mexican mores and customs is about respect.
This column was first published June 21, 1997.
Spending time in Mexico means le...
I had planned on writing a nice, lengthy, last column worthy of the place I&rsqu...
Cookies are among the least understood aspects of computer technology.
Only time will tell how Javier Degollado will go down in history. He may be reme...
The first Rondallas Guadalajara 2018 Festival will showcase ten local groups of ...
The Preditor
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most l...
Lakeside Little Theatre’s fundraising program has accumulated almost 3.4 m...
‘The Gin Game’
The Naked Stage puts on a fundraiser for Mac Morriso...
Monday concerts
Featuring differing genres. September 17: Songs from Broadway musicals.
Monday concerts
Featuring differing genres. September 10: Opera arias and duets. September 17: Songs from Broadway musicals.
It is the third day into the two-week Festival del Lago, a teaching and performance gathering at lakeside for musicians from all over the world, and it is hard to find a typical student among the 37 in attendance.
The Jalisco Opera Company will present an afternoon program of music by many of the greats of the opera world at a gala sponsored by Viva la Musica Thursday August 30, 4 p.m., at St. Andrews Anglican Church.
LLT season opener
Collette Clavadetscher directs Lakeside Little Theatre’s 2018-2019 season opener, “Clever Little Lies,” by Joe DiPietro, Friday, September 14, through Sunday, September 23.
Help Mac
Popular lakeside crooner Mac Morrison recently had open-heart surgery. A Go-Fund-Me page has been opened to help with the $US40,000 hospital bill.
Johnny English Strikes Again
After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.
The Nun
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
While hiking through the woods one day, I came upon a person crouching in the middle of the trail, examining some small brown mushrooms which had sprouted in the droppings left by a passing cow.
Chiggers, popularly called güinas in Jalisco, are nearly invisible larvae of Trombiculid mites, whose bites result in exceedingly itchy red welts. I last wrote about them in 2011 and it’s time for an update.
This column was first published June 21, 1997.
Spending time in Mexico means learning Spanish — if you want that time to have much significance.
This column was first published in the April 9, 1988 edition of this newspaper.
Just behind the high ochre ridge that slices the northern horizon at the west end of Lake Chapala lie two small villages, the remnants of a once vast hacienda.
Cookies are among the least understood aspects of computer technology.
Many new laptop computers are now being sold with Solid State Drives (SSD) in place of the traditional mechanical drives with motor and spinning disks.
Violence, corruption, reform? Over the ensuing years, historians may be divided as to which word best characterizes the six-year presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, which comes to a conclusion in less than three months’ time.
The phantasmagorical works of surrealist British/Mexican artist Leonora Carrington – known for her haunting, autobiographical paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy and the occult – are being featured in a splendid retrospective housed in Mexico City’s...
I had planned on writing a nice, lengthy, last column worthy of the place I’ve had the pleasure of living in for the past two years.
The wool coat looks worse for the non-wear. It is wrinkled from being unworn and crammed in the back of a closet for two years; dotted with dust and dog hair from a dog that departed the family a year ago; in need of a lint brush that can’t be found in the pile of things to be thrown away, don...
September is more than a time of patriotic hullabaloo. It is also the peak season to feast on the bounty of local corn farmers.
Regular readers of the Guadalajara Reporter will have taken note of our August 18 front page story on Jalisco’s new anti-noise law.
Everything in Mexican mores and customs is about respect.
A massive cult following has grown over the past five decades based around a line of durable plastic toys that boast a signature human figure with a cherub-like smiling face.
Federico del Toro, the father of Tapatio filmmaker and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro, died this week at a Guadalajara hospital at the age of 85.
‘Empty Bowls’ at American School
The American School’s fourth “Tazones Vacíos” (Empty Bowls) event on Thursday, March 6 seeks to raise funds for the Organización de Nutrición Infantil (ONI), a Guadalajara-based NGO whose mission is to prevent malnu...
El Clasico: Chivas vs. America
Bars will be packed the evening of Saturday, February 18 as local soccer favorites Chivas take on their huge Mexico City rivals America in the game referred to as El Clasico. After six games of the season, Chivas are in fourth place in the 18-team table. Kick of...
Looking for places to go to join your Mexican neighbors in celebrating the nation’s independence? Here is a brief guide to patriotic happenings going on this weekend in lakeside’s principal communities.
The Country Club de Chapala’s 15th annual golf tournament to benefit the Chapala Red Cross will be held Thursday, November 8, and club officers are hoping this year’s event will be the most successful in its history.
Open Circle
Raúl Ruiz will present “The New Psychology of the Mexican People“ at the next meeting of Open Circle, Sunday, September 16, 10:30 a.m., on the patio of the Lake Chapala Society (LCS).
Open Circle
Al Lopez will present “Mental Mechanics: Fast Track to Much Greater Mental Clarity and Life Enjoyment“ at the next meeting of Open Circle, Sunday, September 9, 10:30 a.m., on the patio of the Lake Chapala Society (LCS).
Ten months after work began, a 15-kilometer stretch of highway between Mascota and Puerto Vallarta has been repaired and is operational.
The second-annual Puerto Vallarta Mango Festival is coming to the city’s lovely Lazaro Cardenas Park, Saturday, July 7, an event sure to gladden the hearts of those who can’t live without the sticky sweet fruit.
Pet Picnic
The annual Bucerias Pet Picnic was held recently at the Abuelos de Bucerias Tercera Edad senior center.
Working vacation
You are coming to Bucerias, one of the most popular beach resort towns in the state of Nayarit, to do some upkeep on your family’s rental property. A week should be long enough to get the work done.
Semana Santa
Every condo, casita, hotel room and campsite was filled with families, music and fun.
Cisco’s Amigo’s success
Success cannot adequately describe the outstanding accomplishment of the recent clinic held here in La Manzanilla.
Window closing, not door
It’s the beginning of April and many who have joined the community to escape all or part of the northern climes are planning their travels home.
Celebrating Easter
Mexican Easter celebrations begin on Palm Sunday, March 25 and end on Saturday, April 7.
The Jalisco coast, already kind of a big deal in the world of turtle enthusiasts, has recently gifted a new species of shelled reptile to an excitable science community.
Cookoff update
The 6th Annual Chili Cook Off, sponsored by the Jay Sadler Project, raised 101,000 pesos, thanks to the many participants:
Tipping is woven into the fabric of Mexico’s social culture, chiefly because of its informal, cash-driven economy.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our August editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
Those keen to travel through Mexico’s glorious Copper Canyon in luxurious grandeur are now getting the opportunity thanks to the May 17 launch of the Chepe Express, a premium tourism concept that compliments the popular – but more modest – train ride, Ferromex’s Ferrocarril C...
If you read last week’s account of several days spent in Oaxaca City exposed to what a San Francisco-trained chef – Julio Aguilera of Oaxaca-cathedral-adjacent El Destilado – likes to sink his teeth into on the city’s wide spectrum of gustatory options, plus an account of his...
It is always a pleasure to discover a great new Guadalajara restaurant when you are not expecting it. In the case of Labne, it was more than unexpected – I was putting up active resistance to trying a new place for Sunday brunch, even though I adore Lebanese and other Middle Eastern food.
Columbus has finally gotten an ambitious Italian restaurant on his namesake street. Calle Colon serves as a walkway of several fine restaurants, but none Italian. Tremezzo has attempted to fill that gap.
‘Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together’ by Andrew Selee. New York: Public Affairs, 2018.
Reviewed by Dr. Michael Hogan
A recent photograph published in this newspaper of some 20 young students holding up this pamphlet, Aves del Lago de Chapala, at the reopening of the Alexander Humboldt bird watching trail in San Antonio Tlayacapan made us look into where the young ladies found their birding literature.
If you’re new to Mexico and find yourself stricken by a tummy bug, you are not alone.
It’s not just us humans who are feeling the calor in the days leading up to the start of the rainy season. Our pets almost certainly suffer as much as us – dogs especially.
In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our September editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.
In the wake of the recent murders of various police officers, civic organizations and police officers wearing civilian clothes marched from the Minerva Fountain to the governor’s residence to present Jalisco’s chief executive with several petitions.
Autotransportes Guadalajara-Chapala, the bus company that transports passengers between lakeside and the state capital, recently relocated its Ajijic terminal to new digs situated about a half-block east of Calle Colón.
Renovations to the Plaza de Armas, the landmark square in Guadalajara’s historic center, will not be completed by this weekend but the traditional “grito” festivities will take place as usual on the evening of Saturday, September 15.
The Encuentro Gastronómico (food festival), showcasing produce from Jalisco,will take place on the city’s Paseo Chapultepec, Friday, September 7, through Sunday, September 9, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
Mexican President-Elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to his inauguration on December 1.
Patriotic fervor will be to the fore on the evening of Saturday, September 15 as Miguel Hidalgo’s 1810 call-to-arms against the Spanish is reenacted in plazas the length and breadth of the nation.
Forty underage girls at risk of being trafficked were rescued last Saturday in Puerto Vallarta by the coordinated efforts of various law enforcement agencies, mainly federal. The majority were between 13 and 15 years old.
May Fest finale
Puerto Vallarta concludes its centennial cerebrations Thursday, May 31 with a spectacular free evening show on the malecon, featuring mariachi, Guadalajara band Sonido Satanas, and ranchero superstar Pepe Aguilar.
In multilateral meetings around the world, policies related to junk food, mother’s milk and access to medicines and vaccines — all widely thought to have been moving in a direction favorable to underdeveloped countries such as Mexico — have taken a turn in the opposite direction.&n...
A former medical student from the United States will be sentenced November 7 after pleading guilty to the attempted murder of a U.S. foreign service employee at a Guadalajara mall in January 2017.
It’s been 75 years since the arrival in Mexico of the British Council, a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization that promotes a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language, while encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational understanding and co-ope...
Data released this week by the National Statistics Agency (Inegi) showed the consumer price index to have risen by 0.59 percent in December, leaving inflation for 2017 at 6.77 percent – the highest level since 2000, when the rate was 8.96 percent.
Robert Lewis Pattison
Robert Lewis Pattison died in his sleep of natural causes July 25 in Ajijic at age 73.
Nicholas Kolpowski
Lakeside resident Nicholas Kolpowski died in Ajijic July 3 after a short illness.
Golfer Abraham Ancer failed in his bid to become the first Mexican to win a PGA Tour title in 40 years at TPC Boston last weekend.
Boxing fans are just a week away from the much anticipated rematch between Guadalajara’s very own Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO) and Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KO), scheduled in Las Vegas Saturday, September 15.
