Baring all for a noble cause
On Saturday, June 17, the city’s easily-scandalized citizens will want to pay attention to where they direct their gaze.
On Saturday, June 17, the city’s easily-scandalized citizens will want to pay attention to where they direct their gaze.
Their huge smiles tell the story! The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara selected, from a field of more than 1,000 applications, four students to be sent on an all-expenses-paid trip to a summer camp at Oklahoma State University. The winners are Alondra Fernanda Melgoza Godinez, April Medina, Andrea Nuño and Diego Alejando Sanchez Sanchez.
Every year, OSU runs several camps, each tailored to a different subject or theme.
Citizens of Guadalajara, a city which has been called “Mexico’s San Francisco” (in addition to “Mexico’s Silicon Valley,” a much less glamorous comparison), can look forward to the state capital’s annual Pride Parade, coming Saturday, June 3.
After a two-month suspension, Guadalajara’s revamped fotomulta (speed camera fine) system resumed operations on Thursday, June 1.
As if the various maladies it gives rise to weren’t bad enough, the current heatwave has provoked a spike in scorpion bites, as well.
The last two weeks have seen between 62 and 65 night spots closed along a handful of major commercial corridors in the municipality of Guadalajara, chiefly for decibel level violations.
Four suspects in the robbery of a business in the Reforma district await detention.
A gang of eight armed, masked men raided a jewelry store in Guadalajara’s Gran Plaza mall Saturday, May 27, making off with several thousand dollars’ worth of watches.
Juan Pedro Franco, described as the most obese person in the world, has left a Guadalajara clinic following weight reduction surgery.