The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
With years of theater experience behind her, and a demanding job teaching at the American school in Guadalajara, Rebecca Schaffer finds herself well placed to run a comedy improvisation group on her home patio as often as once a week.
Mexico’s mystery and warmth have not only attracted tourists from around the world but runaways, defectors, artists, intellectuals and writers.
When Ieva Jusionyte came from Lithuania for advanced studies in anthropology at Brandeis University, she had nagging memories of the Soviet Union’s threat to reoccupy her homeland and the resulting need some people there felt for firearms.
On July 1, the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation welcomes a new rabbi as service leader. Rabbi Jonathan Case, an eminent rabbi, scholar, educator, author and local media personality, has picked up stakes from Columbia, South Carolina and moved to Lakeside in semi-retirement to begin his next adventure of an impressive career.
An “English tradition beating with the heart of an Asian dragon” is how one Mexican automotive journal described the impact of MG Motor Mexico in this country over the past four years.
Many employees from the United States Consulate General in Guadalajara turned out for last weekend’s (second) Pride March this June. The high-spirited and colorful event was enjoyed by several thousand Tapatios and visitors.
Amy Scanlon was once a small-town Vermont girl fascinated by a high school student’s report on his experience as an exchange student in Japan.
