The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A citizenry still reeling from two months of bloody internecine fighting between powerful cartels has been dealt another crushing blow their morale: the abduction in Tonala of three film students, scooped up off the streets after shooting a project for the Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales (CAAV).
The Irish Ambassador to Mexico and the country’s tourism minister took part in an (early) St. Patrick’s Day and Greening Day celebration in Guadalajara Sunday, March 10.
The Guadalajara branch of Democrats Abroad will show the movie “Citizen Koch” (2013) at the American Society of Jalisco (Amsoc) Sunday, March 25, 2 p.m.
Zapopan city hall is presenting a free concert featuring the popular Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, who recently sang at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, interpreting the “Best Song” for the movie “Coco.”
From March 23 to September 23, an exhibition of impeccably crafted facsimiles of items from the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen will be on view at the “Juan Jose Arreola” Jalisco State Public Library.
Oil giant BP has opened its third gas station in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, at Periférico Poniente 1771, corner of Avenida Juan Palomar.
Last weekend, neither director Guillermo Del Toro nor his birth city of Guadalajara so much asfeigned interest in winding down their separate victory laps, which began after Del Toro won two Oscars, March 4, for his efforts at the helm of “The Shape of Water.”
Mariachi musicians may soon be strumming their guitarrones and blasting away on their trumpets in Guadalajara’s famous Plaza Mariachi.
Hometown hero Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar triumph on Sunday (where he scooped up Best Director and Best Picture trophies) was celebrated in typically exuberant Tapatio style near the city’s famed arches (Los Arcos) on Avenida Vallarta, where revelers toted a giant facsimile of Oscar himself, along with a cardboard caricature of the bespectacled cineaste.
