Public sculpture program under scrutiny
Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro has justified the cost of a public sculpture commissioned to Joe Fors, one of the city’s foremost artists, and an accomplished musician to boot.
Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro has justified the cost of a public sculpture commissioned to Joe Fors, one of the city’s foremost artists, and an accomplished musician to boot.
Readers of the Reporter have surely noticed my occasional jibes against sources of irritating noise in Mexico: loud neighbors, salones de eventos, balnearios, leaf blowers, all-terrain vehicles – the list is long.
FIL INVITEE – Portugal will be the invited country at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in 2018, it was announced this week.
Guadalajara Police Chief Salvador Caro has been the target of criticism amid allegations that two municipal police officers who were shot to death last week during a robbery at a medical laboratory were unfit for duty and should never have been on the streets.
The third annual Guadalajara Mushroom Festival plants its spores in the Club de Leones, Sunday, July 30.
The opening of the second section of the Macrolibramiento (outer Guadalajara ring road) has been postponed for one month “for climatic reasons.”
Last Sunday, the hearing-impaired faithful had their confessions heard, or rather seen, in Guadalajara’s metropolitan cathedral for the first time.
An on-duty carriage horse dropped dead Sunday evening at the corner of Calzada Independencia and Prisciliano Sanchez, potentially putting the nail in the coffin, so to speak, of the city center’s horse-drawn carriage tradition (calandrias) — at least symbolically.
A Banorte branch at the intersection of Juan Palomar y Arias and Justo Sierra this week became the target of criminals for the fifth time in the past two years.