After its summer goings-on and short hiatus, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) has announced that its fall season begins Sunday, October 29.

Is it possible to eat too much spinach, cocoa and fruit and too many nuts, grains and seeds?

1968 was the year of student rebellion, with protests against authority erupting all over the world. The image of revolutionary Che Guevara was seen on t-shirts worn on campuses throughout the globe and nowhere more so than in Mexico.

Frank Le, Canada’s consul and senior trade commissioner in Guadalajara, didn’t join the foreign service to spend all his time stuck behind a desk.

Just as Mexico starts dressing up in red, white and green for the patriotic holidays, food lovers are slathering for a taste of the season’s emblematic tricolor gourmet treat: Chiles en Nogada.

While the North American cowboy was relegated to a series of cigarette ads at the end of the 20th century (usually shown on horseback navigating a swollen river), his Mexican counterpart, the charro, remains a celebrated national symbol. The charro horseman embodies a romantic ideal.