Plaza de Liberacion, centro historico’s largest public square, sees a lot of things: mangers featuring terrifyingly large facsimiles of biblical personalities and hooved desert pack animals, the largest number of agave jimadores ever assembled in one place, countless mariachi concerts, and more.

A 70-something Tapatio recalls Holy Week in Guadalajara: “When I was a child, there was no radio, we didn’t go to the movies.

March 6 and 7 at the Auditorio de la Ribera, when the lights went down and the theater became black, most of the audience didn’t know what to expect.

Historian/ educator Michael Hogan enthralled listeners at a standing-room-only presentation at the Lake Chapala’s Open Circle Sunday, March 11 with tales about his research for his book “The Irish Soldiers of Mexico,” published two decades ago.

As someone who is passionate about dogs, Syd Sullins likes to describe the Ranch as a beautiful and cheerful place filled with satisfied volunteers and contented dogs.

Ricardo Joel Gómez Osnaya – Padre Ricardo as he is still called, even after his November election as bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Western Mexico – had not yet been born when his grandfather, a layman in Tlajomulco, a town just outside Guadalajara, was knifed to death by a zealous Cristero after leaving an Anglican Mass.