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World’s best climate debate

Dawn breaks after a steady, night-long rain. As rose-hued clouds lift from horiz...

Important Public Announcement!

Many area expats are still unaware that there is prank-filled holiday observance...

Arts & Entertainment

Entertainment Guide - July 2, 2016

-1 DAYS AGO

Tuesday recitals

The Martes de Música y Ópera series sponsored by the Jalisco Culture Department attracts some truly stellar classical performers and it’s all free! 

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Upcoming ‘Tonica’ jazz festival promises top acts, as city looks to host 2017 International Jazz Day

-1 DAYS AGO

Around 20 universities, music schools and cultural institutions from all over Mexico will participate in the week-long seminar and associated workshops that forma part of the Jalisco Jazz Festival 2016, scheduled this year from July 29 through August 7.

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Harps put zing in Chapala music fest

24 DAYS AGO

Pleasing strains of traditional Mexican music will fill the air throughout next week as musicians from near and far congregate in Chapala to engage in the 14th Encuentro de Arpas, Salterios y Mas. 

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Posthumous homage to master sculptor at Old Train Station

1 MONTHS AGO

The works of renowned sculptor Miguel Miramontes Carmona, a longtime Chapala resident  who died in October of last year at the age of 97, will be exhibited at the Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo, with the inauguration slated for Saturday, May 28, noon. 

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Ribera Arts Review - July 2, 2016

-1 DAYS AGO

LLT auditions

Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) auditions for “Mark Twain, Uncensored” will be held Friday and Saturday, July 1 and 2, at the theater. Registration is 9:30 a.m. each day with auditions at 10 a.m. 

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Ribera Arts Review - June 25, 2016

6 DAYS AGO

Naked Stage

The Naked Stage presents “Bakersfield Mist” by Stephen Sachs from Friday, June 24 through Sunday, June 26.  Directed by Diana Rowland, the play features Roseann and Tony Wilshere. 

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At the Movies - July 2, 2016

-1 DAYS AGO

Ice Age Collision Course

Scrat’s epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the Ice Age World.

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At the Movies - June 25, 2016

6 DAYS AGO

Independence Day: Resurgence

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind’s new space defenses be enough? Director: Roland Emmerich. Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman. Rated: PG-13. Time: 2:00.

Marguerit...

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Columns

An elegant taberna, off the beaten track

6 DAYS AGO

My neighbor Richard is a hydraulic engineer with a talent for finding waterfalls. After a quick look at the area around Amatitán using Google Earth, he put his finger on the screen: “Right here there has to be a waterfall,” he declared.

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Canadian initiates first geological study of Jalisco’s obsidian deposits

13 DAYS AGO

In 2013 I paid my first visit to Selva Negra, the popular name for the Ahuisculco Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, located 30 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara.

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VIEWPOINT: UK opts out of Europe: The end of tolerance, the rise of demagoguery & a warning to the United States

-1 DAYS AGO

In a vote of historic proportions, the people of the United Kingdom have decided by a slender margin to jump ship and go it alone, turning their backs on the European Union (EU), a relationship they have maintained, albeit shakily, since 1973.

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Lincoln & Mexico: Local author, teacher sets the record straight through sound research and a nudge from his students

1 MONTHS AGO

Back in January 2013, many of the 11th-grade students in Michael Hogan’s U.S. history class at Guadalajara’s American School attended an early screening of “Lincoln,” Steven Spielberg’s much touted biopic.

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Important Public Announcement!

6 MONTHS AGO

Many area expats are still unaware that there is prank-filled holiday observance between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

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Mexico’s Christmas gift to the world

6 MONTHS AGO
Mexico’s Christmas gift to the world

When the Spanish arrived in the Western Hemisphere, they recorded that the Aztecs viewed all flowers as gifts of the gods. The ancients in this area cultivated the red star-shaped cuetlaxóchitl (flower with leather petals) as an offering to their supreme diety – the god of the sun &ndas...;

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A midwesterner moves to Mexico - Birthday Fiestas

-1 DAYS AGO

Anyone from the Midwest old enough to have grandchildren has a black-and-white photo, tucked away in a shoe box on the top shelf of a closest, of a dozen little kids wearing pointed party hats sitting on the front steps of what could be the American Gothic house.

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A midwesterner moves to Mexico - A Rocking Chair in the Median

6 DAYS AGO

Some of my most vivid memories of Mexico will come from the people I see along the streets. People whose names I don’t know and who I have only fleeting contact with.

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World’s best climate debate

-1 DAYS AGO

Dawn breaks after a steady, night-long rain. As rose-hued clouds lift from horizon, the sun emerges in a clear azure sky. Mountain hillsides glisten, lush with emerald green foliage.

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Road rage redux

6 DAYS AGO

A recent email message from a reader brings up a sore subject previously addressed in this space. The irate Ajijic resident wrote: 

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Expat Living

City Living - June 18, 2016

13 DAYS AGO

Wrestling for Father’s Day

Zapopan’s huge Plaza de las Americas (facing the Basilica) will host a wrestling extravaganza on Father’s Day weekend, Saturday, June 18 and Sunday, June 19. 

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City Living - June 4, 2016

24 DAYS AGO

Things to do at Amsoc 

There’s plenty going on at the American Society (Amsoc) over next few weeks. 

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Laguna Chapalac - July 2, 2016

-1 DAYS AGO

Trees for the hills

Attention hikers and nature lovers! Salvajes Ajijic athletic club is calling for helpers to assist in a one-day reforestation campaign set for Sunday, July 3.

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Laguna Chapalac - June 25, 2016

6 DAYS AGO

Open Circle

Three highly accomplished musicians —

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US Coast Guard lends a hand in Vallarta

1 MONTHS AGO
US Coast Guard lends a hand in Vallarta

Crew members of the USCGC Active, a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter, rolled up their sleeves to help out at Puerto Vallarta community projects last week.

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PV Legion post holds Memorial Day event

1 MONTHS AGO

The David F. Lilley Post 14 of the American Legion in Puerto Vallarta and Banderas Bay will hold a Memorial Day event for veterans at Steve’s Sports Bar at Basilio Badillo 286 in Colonia Emiliano Zapata Monday, May 30, from noon to 4 p.m.

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North Banderas Beat - March 19, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
North Banderas Beat - March 19, 2016

The Philo Legacy

The Northshore was shocked by the sudden death of Philo Hayward due to heart failure in the summer of 2015. 

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North Banderas Beat – March 12, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
North Banderas Beat – March 12, 2016

Chacala Festival

Chacala is a relaxing fishing village situated in the heart of the Riviera Nayarit, about 25 miles north of Bucerias/northshore.  Each March, the Puerto de Chacala Music and Art Festival brings together musicians and other artists for a three-day, three-night celebration, comp...

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La Manzanilla Memo – April 1, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
La Manzanilla Memo – April 1, 2016

A Dream Come True

Walt Disney once said that “Any dream can come true if you have the courage to pursue it.” Well Mr. Disney, our pueblo just proved you were right!

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Laguna Chapalac - March 19, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
Laguna Chapalac - March 19, 2016

Something’s Cooking!

I recently had the pleasure of attending one of the cooking classes offered by local legend Eileen Zack.  

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Barra de Navidad & Melaque Journal - March 26, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
Barra de Navidad & Melaque Journal - March 26, 2016

Labour of Love

At least 18 years have passed since work began on the Church of San Felipe de Jesus in Barra’s barrio. With continuous effort by the community half of the church is complete.

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Barra de Navidad & Melaque Journal – March 12, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
Barra de Navidad & Melaque Journal – March  12, 2016

For Bibliophiles

When Leone Ewoldt built her house in Villa Obregon in 2006, she had a room made for a book exchange because of her love of reading and sharing books with others. Having sold everything, including hundreds of books when she left Seattle, her new little room soon filled up and the bo...

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Puerto Vallarta Bulletin - April 16, 2015

2 MONTHS AGO
Puerto Vallarta Bulletin - April 16, 2015

Shop-A-Holic

Only a few Fridays left to shop at the Marsol Hotel Market, which takes place in the lobby from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. and runs through the end of April.

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Puerto Vallarta Bulletin – April 1, 2016

3 MONTHS AGO
Puerto Vallarta Bulletin – April 1, 2016

Making New Friends

There are many informal get-togethers organized by the ExPats group in Vallarta. This gives you a chance to meet others living here full- or part-time, or people who are on vacation. Here are April’s events:

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Mexican Lifestyles

Giving back to Mexico’s neediest

24 DAYS AGO

Aguagente has committed itself to an ambitious social responsibility program, pledging its support for the nonprofit group Techo, which builds homes for Mexico’s poorest citizens. 

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#FreeGadgetSlaves

3 MONTHS AGO
#FreeGadgetSlaves

The other day, still in an early morning daze, I dashed out of the house to do a few errands. As soon as I got to my first destination I realized I had left my cell phone behind, recharging on the bedside table. 

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Surf’s up in Michoacán

13 DAYS AGO
Surf’s up in Michoacán

In the depths of New York’s bitterly cold winter, a glimmer of hope appeared on the horizon: two friends would be available for a two-week surf trip in May. 

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A winning day out: Swimming to a hidden beach

1 YEAR AGO
A winning day out: Swimming to a hidden beach

It’s a glorious feeling as you swim into the beautiful secluded beach of the Marieta Islands (Islas Marietas). As you pass under a rocky arch in the island there is a moment when the tide turns in your favor and washes you gently towards the sandy shoreline. It is as if the island has deemed y...

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Talented chef creates world-class cuisine at Go Bistro

-1 DAYS AGO

If leading international food critics such as Michelin were to start looking at restaurants in Ajijic, Go Bistro would receive high marks. 

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CocinART: Charming Ajijic retreat with great food & prices

13 DAYS AGO

Ajijic’s CocinART restaurant is centrally located just off Colon in a courtyard-like setting that is loaded with charm and atmosphere, not to mention an interesting menu and excellent food. 

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New novel asks, ‘Could culture war over same-sex marriage evolve into civil war?’

1 MONTHS AGO

Ajijic resident Tom Nussbaum says he watched the November 6, 2012 election results on television with disbelief and joy. 

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Popular Ajijic author pens new thriller

6 MONTHS AGO
Popular Ajijic author pens new thriller

Robert Bruce Drynan of Ajijic is the author of “Domain of the Scorpion” (2009), a thriller set in Colombia and Venezuela and Panama, that introduces several characters we meet again in his latest novel, “The Shadow of Nemesis,” set largely in Mexico. “Domain of the Scor...

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Laughter: medicine kids actually enjoy

2 MONTHS AGO
Laughter: medicine kids actually enjoy

More than 600 doctors in some 24 cities in the country are registered with Risaterapia (laughter therapy) A.C., a group that brings doses of medicine that smiling children take willingly.

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Six transplants from one donor

2 MONTHS AGO

The relatives of a 30-plus year old man declared brain-dead after an automobile accident donated his organs and tissues and brought new life to six patients last week.

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News

AMSOC celebrates US Independence Day July 7

-1 DAYS AGO

The American Society of Jalisco (AMSOC) is celebrating U.S. Independence Day Thursday, July 7, from noon to 3 p.m. with a picnic style menu of grilled hamburgers, potato salad, ranch beans and sundaes.

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Was man murdered in parking row?

-1 DAYS AGO

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has ordered his state attorney general to speed up an investigation into the alleged beating death of a 38-year-old man who objected to a woman who had parked her car blocking a ramp for the disabled. 

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Green letter day for Ajijic waterfront

6 DAYS AGO

The Ajijic waterfront is bursting with new life following the massive reforestation project carried out Saturday, June 18. 

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Speed traps slated for Chapala bypass

7 DAYS AGO

Now that the Chapala-Ajijic bypass (Libramiento) is in good condition, Mayor Javier Degollado is asking Jalisco’s Transportation Department (Secretaria de Movilidad or Semov) to implement regular speed traps to keep lead-footed motorists in check.

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Innovating for a better tomorrow

-1 DAYS AGO

Develop solutions to combat poverty and social inequality was the call issued by the Jalisco state government

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Cardinal admits to providing ‘refuge’ for pedophile priests in Tlaquepaque

20 DAYS AGO

Catholic Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, the outspoken former archbishop of Guadalajara, admitted this week that a rehab center in Tlaquepaque was used to provide shelter to priests who were known pedophiles.

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Jalisco joins forces with Canada for high tech future

-1 DAYS AGO

Jalisco’s burgeoning relationship with Canada received another shot in the arm last month following a visit to two provinces by an education and research mission headed by Jaime Reyes Robles, state secretary for Innovation, Science and Technology.  

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How the US views Mexico, NAFTA

-1 DAYS AGO

A new in-depth-study reveals Mexico’s brand in the United States remains battered –

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Cuastecomates: the ground-breaking ‘disabled-inclusive’ beach town in Jalisco

1 MONTHS AGO

Jalisco’s first “disabled-inclusive” beach has opened in Cuastecomates in the municipality of Cihuatlán just north of Melaque.   

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Beach paradise closed as degraded coral reef is nursed back to health

1 MONTHS AGO

Visitors to the Marieta Islands off the Jalisco/Nayarit coast will be prohibited from visiting the fabled Playa de Amor (Beach of Love, or Hidden Beach as it it is more commonly known)

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VIEWPOINT: Mass shootings — We have met the enemy and he is us

13 DAYS AGO

The massacre in Orlando, with its record number of dead, leaves us afraid that nothing more can be said, except that another one is coming.

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Local crews tackle Alberta wildfires

20 DAYS AGO

Forty-one Mexican firefighters have left the country to help fight the wildfires ravaging the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Tips and tricks for US ‘persons’ filing a Foreign Bank Account Report

6 DAYS AGO

I cannot stress enough the importance of timely and correctly filing a Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) if you are required to.

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BMW starts work on new plant

13 DAYS AGO

German carmaker BMW has laid the first stone of its new assembly plant San Luis Potosi.

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Obituary - June 25, 2016

6 DAYS AGO

James Spencer Collins 

James Spencer (“Spense”) Collins, an oilman raised in West Texas who spent his life chasing oil and gas around the globe, died June 16 at the age of 94. 

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Obituary - June 18, 2016

13 DAYS AGO

Domenic Anthony Valenti

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Tapatio racer on Ferrari’s radar

6 DAYS AGO

Guadalajara Formula One racer Sergio “Checo” Perez obtained his second podium finish in three races at last Sunday’s European Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, kicking off rumors that the next step in his career could a seat with the famed Ferrari team.

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Mexican soccer embarrassed in more ways than one

6 DAYS AGO

It’s been an awful week for Mexican soccer as the Copa America tournament taking place this month in cities across the United States draws to its conclusion this weekend.

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Unseasonal violence leaves 38 dead in Jalisco and Michoacan

Christmas cheer was in short supply this year as a wave of violence swept the borders of Jalisco and Michoacan from Sunday through Tuesday.

Additional state police and Mexican Army personnel have been deployed to reinforce the border between the two states, after a series of clashes and coordinated ambushes left 38 people dead, including at least 11 police officers.

Five policemen were killed and another four were injured – along with one civilian – in the first attack in Briseñas, Michoacan in the early hours of Sunday, December 23. The assailants reportedly opened fire when police arrived in the area to investigate reports of a traffic accident.

Minutes later, another four officers were killed and three more injured in the nearby town of Ayotlan, Jalisco. In the wake of the attack, 32 of Ayotlan’s 67 police officers resigned, leaving just 35 men to enforce law and order in the municipality.

In a simultaneous attack on the town hall in Degollado on Jalisco’s eastern frontier, gunmen fired off some 1,100 rounds, leaving seven vehicles damaged but no reported casualties.

Three more officers were injured on Sunday in the Jalisco municipality of Quitupan when they were ambushed by gunmen in trucks. Police then found three bodies at the Faisan ranch in Quitupan and the handcuffed corpses of another three men at the Quiringual ranch in the same town. A male from Quitupan who suffered injuries in the attacks was admitted to a private hospital in Guadalajara.

The same day, a man and woman were shot dead on the highway to Jilotlan de los Dolores in southern Jalisco, with a son of the woman also suffering gunshot wounds. Another woman was then shot to death in Jilotlan de los Dolores.

A suspected gunman was found dead in La Barca, Jalisco on Sunday afternoon, while in Michoacan two people were burned to death when their vehicle was set alight in Marcos Castellanos. Three other vehicles were set on fire to form a road block, the Michoacan authorities said.

Authorities later confirmed another four police officers and one civilian were killed in Pihuamo in northwestern Jalisco late Sunday night. The officers were abducted by heavily armed men in trucks wearing military uniforms and balaclavas.

Another ten dead bodies were found in Pihuamo on Wednesday, following an apparent shootout between rival gangs the previous night. The Army denied involvement in the incident, which brought the total body count since Sunday, December 23 up to 38.

No arrests were made and the attacks have yet to be attributed to a specific criminal gang, although the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generacion and the Knights Templar are considered the most active in the region.

The latter gang, which is based in Michoacan, left banners known as “narcomantas” in the cities of Morelia and Zamora, Michoacan and Uriangato, Guanajuato last week, offering to lay down their arms if President Enrique Peña Nieto takes effective action to curb violent crime in the region.

While most of Jalisco is considered safe for travel, the U.S. State Department warned against all non-essential travel to the area along the Michoacan border in its most recent advisory last month.

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