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Guadalajara hosts 40th wheelchair games

Guadalajara hosts 40th wheelchair games

Mexico’s First Lady Angelica Rivera brought her charisma to Zapopan’s Scotiabank Aquatics Center for the inauguration of the 40th National Wheelchair ...

Cruz Roja heads out to disaster zone

After waiting on standby for the past several weeks, personnel at Cruz Roja Chapala finally picked up their rucksacks Tuesday, October 1 to head off t...

IVA on rents a bad idea, realtors say

Extending value added tax (IVA) to property rentals, as proposed in President Enrique Peña Nieto’s fiscal reform package, would not increase governmen...

Roberto Moulun

Roberto Moulun

Roberto Moulun, a gifted story teller and longtime resident of Ajijic, died Monday, September 30 in a local clinic after a brief illness. He was 89.

Expat Living

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Local quilters honored in Puebla

Local quilters honored in Puebla

Honors were bestowed on several of the eight Lakeside ladies who attended the Puebla Patchwork and Quilt expo from September 26 to 29. 

Texas festival in Nueva Vallarta

Texas natives residing in this region might want to pencil June 11-18 in their diaries.  Those are the dates of the ninth edition of the Texas Music F...

La Manzanilla Memo - April 13, 2013

La Manzanilla Memo - April 13, 2013

License experience

Getting a Mexican driver’s license was the most fun I’ve had with this country’s bureaucracy in the 13 years I’ve dealt it. My Cal...

City Living - October 5, 2013

Meet the author

Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez will discuss his historical novel “The Dark Side of the Dream” at the American Society (AMSOC) Book Club ...

Laguna Chapalac - October 5, 2013

Laguna Chapalac - October 5, 2013

Conservatives

The October meeting of the Lakeside Conservatives will be on Tuesday, October 8, 4 p.m. at the Club Exotica, upstairs in the El Jardin ...

North Banderas Beat - April 6, 2013

North Banderas Beat - April 6, 2013

A smaller PEACE

It would be a vast understatement to say that community leaders in the northshore were caught off-guard by the news of the demise of ...

Arts & Entertainment

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Degollado to dance to rhythms of Beatles tribute band/JPO combo

Degollado to dance to rhythms of Beatles tribute band/JPO combo

Enrique Radillo, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra’s administrative director, takes up the baton this weekend at the Degollado for a special concert ...

Ribera Arts Review – October 5, 2013

Ribera Arts Review – October 5, 2013

Storytellers

Unfortunately, the Storytellers event scheduled for Tuesday, October 8 at the Lake Chapala Society has been cancelled.

Mozart & Brahms end Viva’s summer series

Viva La Musica presents the fifth and final concert of its 2013 summer series on Sunday, October, 13, 4 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.

Tapatio filmmaker to direct Simpsons intro

Tapatio filmmaker to direct Simpsons intro

Fresh from the success of his Hollywood blockbuster “Pacific Rim,” Guadalajara-born director Guillermo del Toro has created the opening sequence for a...

Columns

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Signs of the season

We’re told by the Red Cross that certain pests get more active during the rainy season.  We’re talking chiefly about scorpions, spiders, flying insect...

Education effort gets stalled

When Concha Rosales was 16 she did something she hated.  She asked someone to help her without getting angry about it.  Something she hadn’t done sinc...

Mexican Lifestyles

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New ribmaster at the helm of Bubba’s restaurant

New ribmaster at the helm of Bubba’s restaurant

Iceland native Thor Hjaltason and his wife Laura from Texas have taken over Bubba’s restaurant from Ed Hofnel, who is now living in the U.S. recoverin...

Yoga teacher, health counselor, dog lover — she ties it all together

Yoga teacher, health counselor, dog lover — she ties it all together

After suffering burnout from pursuing a political science career in Sweden, a young Swedish transplant to Guadalajara, Kadri Jukham, has found her pas...

Tequila trail to expand to include Tala, Ameca

Tequila trail to expand to include Tala, Ameca

The International Development Bank (IDB) is prepared to inject new funds into the Tequila Trail (Ruta del Tequila) next year to permit further growth ...

Recommended Mexico reading: 15 of the best

Recommended Mexico reading: 15 of the best

This historical season is the time to learn about Mexico, so we queried a handful of knowledgeable informants about what they recommend, other than Al...

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