At the Guadalajara Film Festival’s opening gala, Mayahuel awards were presented to Gabriel Retes, Andy Garcia and English director Mike Leigh.

A idealistic, red-haired, Chilean-born photographer who has lived in or visited a dizzying number of places, from Nice, France, to New York, is opening a show at Casa Escorza in central Guadalajara. Appropriately enough, considering Emiliano Thibaut’s peripatetic life, this collection of 19 medium- and large-format photos focus on New York City, specifically its down-and-out population.

Culturally vibrant, very centrally located, yet not in the centro historico of Guadalajara — that describes the few blocks centered around the soaring, neo-gothic church referred to as “El Expiatorio,” the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) Museo de las Artes and adjacent Paraninfo (which houses a famed Orozco mural in its interior), and the small Mercado Juarez a few blocks away.

Food

As a rule of thumb, condiments, baking goods and spices are allowed through customs gates with little hassle, but the rules get a bit hairier when it comes to fruits, vegetables, dairy or meat products.

When the Mexican Army raided a ranch in Tlajomulco earlier this month they made an unprecedented discovery. A makeshift laboratory, the ranch was filled with vat after vat brimming with white and yellow crystalline powder.

Just as “Presunto Culpable” tackled Mexico’s flawed judicial system, a new documentary is confronting the serious deficiencies of education in this country.