The Guadalajara Reporter
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Mexican poet and translator Coral Bracho (bottom) received the $US150,000 FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages at the opening ceremony of the 37th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).
Now almost a decade old, the state’s Traffic Department’s (Setran) “Salvando Vidas” (Saving Lives) campaign, which seeks to curb drunk driving with strict measures such as random breathalyzer stops, will again turn up the heat on inebriated motorists from a simmer to a boil, just in time for the year’s most besotted season.
A benefit performance of music from the much-loved opera “Carmina Burana,” featuring the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Guadalajara, will be held on Sunday, December 3, 6 p.m. at the Teatro Diana in Guadalajara.
Christmas is just around the corner and yuletide seasonal activities have already hit the ground running in Guadalajara.
About 90 tickets were sold for the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the newly remodeled American Society of Jalisco in Guadalajara.
Yes, we know it’s still November, but Thanksgiving has come and gone, so it’s time to have that great annual debate once more: real or fake—Christmas trees, that is.
Various municipal and state dignitaries were on hand as four new statues of “illustrious” citizens of Jalisco were unveiled in downtown Guadalajara this week.
Last year, motorbikes were involved in 47 percent of all accidents that resulted in either injuries or deaths in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, according to Guadalajara municipal government statistics.
Thanksgiving dinner
Don’t forget that the American Society of Jalisco (AMOSC) holds a Grand Reopening Party at its clubhouse in Guadalajara’s Colonia Chapalita on Saturday, November 18, from 4 to 8 p.m., and its traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, November 23.
