The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A celebration of life for opera singer Kimball Wheeler will be held Saturday, March 5, 4-7 p.m. at the American Society, Avenida San Francisco 3332, in Guadalajara.
Team USA took the gold medal in the women’s team foil event at the Guadalajara Women’s Foil Senior World Cup, with Lee Kiefer, the current Olympic champion, taking a silver medal in the individual event and Maia Mei Weintraub making the top-eight.
Kiefer faced Italy’s world champion Alice Volpi in the individual women’s final, with the Italian winning by a single touch, 15-14.
The event, the first of its kind held in the Jalisco capital, took place at the Fiesta Americana Hotel, with 143 individual competitors and 17 teams participating.
Apart from people covering their mouths and noses, the upcoming Easter commemorations in downtown Guadalajara will seem like any other year.
Tony and Maria (Xavier Sevilla and Cecilia Ledesma) sing of their nascent love from a balcony in Guadalajara’s Arroniz Building, as the American musical “West Side Story” is brought to life in English by the Jalisco State Choir (Coro del Estado de Jalisco).
New JFK-PVR route
On February 19, JetBlue Airways launched nonstop flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Puerto Vallarta’s Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport.
Ukrainian citizens resident in Guadalajara marched from the Minerva Glorieta to the Monument to the Disappeared (Niños Heroes Glorieta) Sunday, February 27, to protest the invasion of their homeland by Russia.
Mark your calendar for March 6, for the first screening of the Movies That Matter Film Festival, presented by Democrats Abroad Lake Chapala.
Feminist groups are expected to take to Guadalajara’s streets on Tuesday, March 8, International Women’s Day.
Armed with pickaxes and shovels, a score of determined mothers and relatives of missing persons from several Mexican states this week blew into the municipality of Tlajomulco for the kind of hands-on search that is usually the exclusive domain of law enforcement agencies and the armed forces.
