The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
On a quiet stretch of Calle San Felipe, behind a Moorish facade that hints at exotic secrets, stands one of downtown Guadalajara’s most storied — and strangest — buildings.
Since the Coro del Estado de Jalisco was founded in 1982, it has soared as a symphonic choir, performing classical music and operas with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra and traveling around the state and outside the country, even to prisons, presenting classical, popular and historical music. But it has also endured personnel cuts (from 76 members to 22), paltry pay raises, and zero health and retirement benefits.
The Jalisco government has announced “Mundo Jalisco,” a 23-day festival designed to help local artisans, farmers and small businesses capitalize on economic opportunities from the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The annual Guadalajara Honey Fair returns Saturday, May 23 to Monday, May 25 with a new, larger home at Parque San Nicolás de Bari in Zapopan, just in time for World Bee Day (May 20).
The 2026 Fête de la Musique (Fiesta de la Música) takes place Saturday, May 16, along four blocks of Pedro Moreno — between Emerson and Prado — in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana neighborhood, where the street will be transformed into a pedestrian zone.
The annual Guadalajara Honey Fair returns Saturday, May 23 to Monday, May 25 with a new, larger home at Parque San Nicolás de Bari in Zapopan, just in time for World Bee Day (May 20).
Expo Cerveza México, one of Latin America’s leading craft beer events, returns to Guadalajara for its fifth edition from Friday, May 15, through Sunday, May 17, at Expo Guadalajara.
Zapopan has relaunched the “Piano en mi Ciudad” (Piano in My City) initiative that places artistically decorated pianos in public spaces for anyone to play.
Police secured another spider monkey this week — the third endangered primate found in the city within the last two weeks, and the seventh in just four months.