The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
With excitement building for the blockbuster opera “Carmen,” set for this weekend, higher-ups in the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra seem loathe to focus on the complaints recently voiced by some instrumentalists about Marco Parisotto, who has been director of the orchestra just since January.
The large Revolution Day parade in Guadalajara takes place on Monday, November 17, running from the Agua Azul Park to La Normal Glorieta along 16 de Septiembre and Alcalde, starting 10 a.m. Expect to see floats depicting revolutionary themes, sportsmen, women and children and demonstrations by emergency services.
Authorities in the Guadalajara metro area are predicting that more than a million people will visit the grave sites of their relatives during traditional Day of the Dead observances on Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2.
Street vendors and others angered at a police raid to confiscate pirated items on sale at stalls set up in their “patch” around the San Juan de Dios Market pelted officers with stones and set fire to vehicles in a disturbance that rocked the Guadalajara city center last Friday afternoon.
Authorities in the Guadalajara metro area are predicting that more than a million people will visit the grave sites of their relatives during traditional Day of the Dead observances on Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2.
The presumed 33-year-old father of a baby girl born to a 12-year-old is under arrest and could face a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a minor.
Guadalajara’s spookiest cemetery, the Museo Panteón de Belén, has opened to the public again having been closed for a year of restoration work. The inauguration took place on Wednesday evening as the public were invited to an advance preview of two new exhibits — an altar de muertos for the Day of the Dead, and a photography collection about Catholic rituals for dealing with dead bodies.
Family members of people who have disappeared without a trace in Jalisco attended Mass in the metropolitan cathedral on Sunday expecting some words of comfort from Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, the archbishop of Guadalajara.
If the idea of getting well and truly lost in a labyrinth of corn appeals to you, then make a beeline for Mundo Maiz, a new attraction in the Tlaquepaque suburbs to the south the metropolitan area.
