With Montezuma a vassal and Cortés fending off the Spanish authorities, good fortune seemed to embrace him at every turn.

Whatever else can be said about the campaign, debates and other events leading to the blastoff of Donald Trump into the U.S. presidential cosmos, at least they have not been yawners.

For the past five years, Michael McLaughlin has been the force behind Lakeside’s annual Lip Sync show – billed as the “biggest and longest running” of its kind in the world. 

To achieve his ends militarily, Hernando Cortés took advantage of tribal rivalries as he proceeded inland toward  the fabled city of  Tenochtitlán (Mexico City, today), the seat of the Mexican empire and the godlike Montezuma.

 After 35 years in the fashion business in Portland, Oregon, Catherine Stephenson came to Ajijic to retire. Only, like many others, she hasn’t. 

If you’re already packing away the Christmas ornaments along with your holiday spirits, think again.