General News

ORCHESTRA CATERS TO ‘GAMERS’

The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) will perform themes from TV series and video games, including “Game of Thrones,” “Super Mario Bros” and “The Legend of Zelda,” Sunday, September 5 at the Conjunto de Artes Escénicas.

The Mariachis de Guadalajara maintained their challenge for an historic title in their debut season in the Mexican Baseball League (LMB), downing the Rieleros de Aguasclientes in game six of their divisional semi-final series.

A Guadalajara teen who suffered severe burns in an accident at a church involving fireworks has been airlifted to a specialist hospital in Galveston, Texas, thanks to the intervention of a Mexican charitable institution.

The University of Guadalajara is indignant that the Jalisco legislature has decided to “reassign” state funding from a museum project to an unfinished metro-area public hospital.

For the second consecutive year, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has forced the Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce into moving its annual International Mariachi and Charreria Festival onto digital formats, although a few live performances are still scheduled.

Marijuana advocates gathered last week in Guadalajara’s Plaza de La Liberación to smoke some weed and collect signatures for a petition to send to the nation’s health regulator (the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks or Cofepris), demanding that the agency start to issue permits allowing citizens to cultivate and consume their own cannabis.

A newborn baby abducted Wednesday afternoon from the Hospital General de Occidente in Zapopan was thankfully recovered the following day.

A plan to “reorder” the mish-mash of overhead cabling on Guadalajara’s streets might seem an impossible task, but that is exactly what Jalisco state legislators are seeking to do.