The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Universidad de Guadalajara, in conjunction with Mexico City’s Museo de Estanquillo, has brought part of a private collection belonging to the late writer and intellectual Carlos Monsivais to Guadalajara’s Casa Vallarta Cultural Center.
At the recent Toronto Film Festival, Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo presented “Miss Bala,” which tells the story of an aspiring beauty queen who gets caught up in the seedy world of organized crime.
Tight security greeted celebrants arriving in Guadalajara’s city center to mark the 201st anniversary of Miguel Hidalgo’s historic call for Mexicans to take up arms against their Spanish rulers.
Painter Fernando Garrido believes many “pseudo artists” hide their technical deficiencies behind labels such as “new artistic language” but in truth rely on improvisation.
Preliminary details have been released regarding the massive cultural program planned in conjunction with the October 14-30 Pan American Games in Guadalajara.
Opera addicts can get their first fix of the year when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is staged at Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado next weekend.
As part of the International Mariachi Festival 2011, dancers in Guadalajara set the Guinness record for the or the largest folk dance performance in the world last week.
