Expat Living

Metropolitano Park

Zapopan city hall has backtracked on its decision to cancel all 24 private concessions within the Parque Metropolitano, the largest park in the metro area.

City officials had closed all businesses operating in the park after a youngster walking with his parents was struck by a stray “bullet” from the “Gotcha” paintball concession.

Prisoners paint

Perhaps the most unusual annual art exhibition to grace the outdoor patio of the Ex Convento del Carmen has once again been hung — the prisoners’ collective entitled “Mas Alla del Horizonte” [Beyond the Horizon].

City dines on huge cake

Some 22,000 hungry citizens gathered in the Plaza Guadalajara on Sunday to feast upon a 1,200-meter-long cake laid on by the municipal government to celebrate El Dia de los Reyes.

Massive Rosca

All are invited to the Plaza Guadalajara for free hot chocolate and a slice of a huge Rosca de Reyes cake on Three King’s Day, Sunday, January 6, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dine on lion

For those sick of eating turkey or ham after Thanksgiving and Christmas, one Guadalajara business offers a more exotic range of meats perfect for spicing up dinner on New Year’s Day.

Multilingual concert

The well-known, nine-member a cappella group Cantabile offers a Christmas concert on Friday, December 21, 8:30 p.m. at San Bernardo church on Plan de San Luis near Federalismo. Carols in English, Spanish, German, French and Latin will be sung. The cost is 30 pesos to benefit the charitable group Juntos Por El Dolor.