The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Local fans of the world’s most famous boy wizard are in for a treat when a “Harry Potter experience” comes to Guadalajara in February and March.
The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) is set to play the music of Dimitri Shostakovich on Saturday, January 20, 7:30 p.m., before the opening of its first season of 2024.
The air quality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area has worsened during 2023, with only 134 days of “good air quality” registered between January 1 and November 30, according to the state government’s air monitoring network (Mide).
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been criticized for his ambivalent attitude toward protecting Mexico’s rich natural environment—the Mayan tourist train project, for example, will seriously disrupt the ecological balance of many areas that it passes through, multiple activists say.
Police officer, guard slain
2023 ended tragically for a police officer and a security guard who were shot to death by an unknown assailant on the evening of December 31 on Avenida Patria, in the vicinity of the Central Camionera Nueva (new Bus Station) in Tonala.
Major GDL avenue to close
A 1-5-kilometer stretch of busy Avenida Pablo Neruda will be closed for five months for rehabilitation work.
A record number of tickets were issued last year in Jalisco for vehicles caught on cameras being driven above the official speed limit.
Guadalajara Zoo claims to be the only one in Latin America with the appropriate facilities and skill set to successfully reproduce Adelie penguins in captivity.
A major new option for large-scale cultural presentations will open next year when the ribbon is cut on the Arena Guadalajara, the 20,000-capacity arena under construction on the northern perimeter of the metropolitan area.
