Juan Diego Allera and his wife Laura love their goats – all 25 of them. And since ten of them are pregnant, there’s more on the way.

“I’ve been young but you’ve never been old,” quips the curmudgeonly judge to his ambitious 25-year-old secretary.

With the abundance of animal lovers that seem to populate Lakeside, newcomers Jeff McGaver and Steve Berg shouldn’t have any problem fitting in.

This article, which deals with a small Guadalajara-based organization of social scientists dedicated to bettering the lives of the city’s at-risk youth vis-a-vis the outlet provided by art, is for those whose reaction to the threatening spectacle of groups – or gangs – of young people gathering on the street to graffiti, freestyle rap or breakdance may be some variation of “Get off my lawn!” or “There goes the neighborhood!”

On February 22, 1988, a baby opened her eyes. Sun streamed through the curtains as the sounds of the world filled her ears.

Grownups who are wont to mutter, “Animation? You mean … cartoons!? I’m a goddamn adult!”