A stone’s throw from the Tapatío landmarks Teatro Degollado and Hotel Frances, a unique retail store with a long and interesting history peeks out beneath graceful, yellow and white arches. 

The suffocating heat of late May tends to curb both my appetite and any inclination to slave at the stove. This week’s keep-cool approach to menu planning?  Gazpacho!

Tuesday morning I headed over to Lakeside’s best source for fresh and healthy produce, the weekly farmers market at the La Huerta de Serna events salon, making a beeline for the Gomis Gardens veggie stand to stock up on my main ingredient – luscious tomatoes just off the vine.

English-speaking, pet-loving residents of the Guadalajara and Lake Chapala areas are frequently more than familiar with the veterinarian brothers Antonio and Arturo Ladron de Guevara, who, along with their father, a sister and the younger Hector, have for decades operated large, well-equipped clinics in both locales and speak excellent English to boot.

A Guadalajara-born nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor was among 802 new saints named by Pope Francis in the Vatican on Sunday.

It was a typical balmy evening just over a year ago when Abel Paz Enciso wrapped up a class in his dance studio and headed off from San Antonio Tlayacapan to meet up with pals at the Ajijic Malecon.

Before taking over the reins as governor of Jalisco on March 1, Aristotoles Sandoval began spouting fresh ideas for restructuring the state government. Innovations in public administration that include the creation, elimination and fusion of various agencies are now well under way, with the deepest changes noted in branches related to law and order.