The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Guadalajara’s annual livestock fair, pegged by many as Mexico’s best of the genre, opens Thursday, October 5 with an ongoing exhibition of live farm animals and a jam-packed program of special events that should rope in thousands of visitors before it ends November 3.
An all-day concert for “Our Brothers in Oaxaca” will be held Sunday, October 1 at the Glorieta Chapalita at Avenida Guadalupe and San Ignacio.
For the first time, Guadalajara’s city center will host an official Dia de los Muertos parade at the beginning of November. Not one to let the opportunity to make a good first impression slip by, the city will show off its population of Xoloitzcuintles.
Famed Spanish tenor Placido Domingo will be the star attraction at the opening of the University of Guadalajara’s Conjunto de Artes Escénicas, the new performing arts complex located on the northern city Periferico adjoining the State Library and within spitting distance of the Auditorio Telmex.
Every municipality, from Pago Pago to Reykjavik, has at least one zone earmarked for the selling of used car parts – dusty lots ringed by barbed wire fences or garages reeking of machine oil littered with the mechanical detritus of the automobile age.
The first section of the new pedestrian zone on downtown Guadalajara’s Avendia Alcalde between calles Hospital and Jesus Garcia is almost complete and is expected to open some time next month,
Tuesday, September 11 the armed robbery of a woman was foiled by a law enforcement agent in the Chapalita neighborhood of Zapopan.
If at some point you came up with the idea of a children’s amusement that, instead of being centered around thrills and entertainment, was dedicated to giving them a taste of adult work-a-day drudgery, you most likely consigned that notion to oblivion almost immediately.
Guadalajara film director Guillermo del Toro has won the coveted Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for his latest film, “The Shape of Water,” an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962.
