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Mariachi mayhem ready to roll

It comes around once a year, and when it does, it brings a whole lot of noise and celebration to Guadalajara, laced up in trajes de charro and gently swelling strings, belting brass and rhythmic guitar. INCLUDES VIDEO.

Total solar eclipse to shroud US in darkness

Monday, August 21, much of North America (i.e., the United States) will experience a complete solar eclipse, which for many citizens there who have been duped by leaders both secular and ecclesiastical into letting superstition rather than reason govern their lives will no doubt be a portent of imminent doom.

City’s Luz del Mundo invasion

More than 300,000 worshipers from 40 countries descended on the Hermosa Provincia neighborhood of Guadalajara this week for the annual Holy Convocation of the Luz del Mundo (Light of the World) church.

Preview of electric calandrias receives a mixed reception

Giving a new meaning to “putting the cart before the horse,” Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Alfaro and his minions officially unveiled the calandrias electricas that will eventually replace the traditional equine-drawn model seen filling the city’s center’s paved circuitry with the sound of bells and hoof-clops — and the smell of horse hair.