From all appearances, they are like any other upscale swimming pool. But a handful of Guadalajara pools boast something invisible that their owners say is increasingly important to swimmers — water purification systems that rely less on questionable chemicals and more on safer technologies.

The Museo de la Ciudad de Guadalajara has served as custodian of the city’s culture and heritage since its ceremonious opening in 1992. Even the site it occupies comes with a shred of history. The square yellow colonial building downtown began life as part of a convent in the 1700s, running through other uses over the centuries until City Hall purchased it in 1991. Currently, the museum is proudly showcasing a “Pilgrimage of the Huichol Indians to Wirikuta” exhibit.

Read the words “Mexico” and “chainsaw” in a news story and you might expect a gruesome account of narcos attempting to outdo each other in recreating the Texas chainsaw massacre. This is not one of those articles.

Later this month Tonala will host the famous “Dance of the Tastoanes,” an annual ritual commemorating an indigenous insurgence during the Spanish invasion of western Mexico.

At least 17,000 young people marched through Guadalajara last Saturday to voice their displeasure at the election of Enrique Peña Nieto and the media’s “imposition” of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate.

After ten years living, studying bread and pastry techniques and working in bakeries in Normandy, France, a couple who met at the University of Guadalajara have returned and established a bakery, Oh La La!