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Obituary - May 23, 2014

John Jaquish died May 12, in Ajijic, two weeks after emergency abdominal surgery...

Expat Living

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City Living - May 23, 2014

Kids, adolescents, parents and grandparents can have a ball at this yearly event...

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 ...

Mexican Lifestyles

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Six Jalisco cyclists charged with child sex abuse

3 DAYS AGO

Four adults and two minors have been charged with sexually abusing a 15-year-old athlete at a state-run residence for promising sports stars.

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US Treasury takes aim at Guadalajara restaurant

3 DAYS AGO

The U.S. Treasury Department has designated a restaurant in the Jardines Universidad neighborhood of Zapopan as a business used to launder money for one of the leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel.

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Star-studded Ajijic fiesta set to benefit Canacinta chapel construction

3 DAYS AGO

The delights of a typical village fair spiced up with some show biz glitz will entice a throng of folks to a special celebration taking place Wednesday, May 28 from 6 p.m.  at the Ajijic plaza.

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Loose-knit business group plans monthly meetings

3 DAYS AGO

The members of a recently formed and loosely organized group of area residents involved in a variety of business activities will hold their monthly meeting from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 31 at Laurie’s Market Café in Ajijic. This meeting will focus on helping members create and use a Facebook bus...

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Agave plant to help fight obesity?

10 DAYS AGO

Could tequila reduce diabetes? No, but researchers at the Center for Investigation and Advanced Studies in Irapuato, Guanajuato have identified a substance in the agave plant (which tequila is made from) called agavinas that reduces glucose levels.

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Temaca tells state officials to ‘keep out’

10 DAYS AGO

Residents of Temacapulin, soon to be inundated to make way for a dam, have set up road blocks on the outskirts of the northeastern Jalisco town to restrict the entry of state officials.

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News briefs

3 DAYS AGO

Gas and diesel hikes continue

Consumers can expect gasoline and diesel fuel hikes every month through the end of 2015, according to Mexican Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell.

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Happy Mexicans

3 DAYS AGO

Mexicans are significantly happier than the majority of people in other industrialized nations, says the Better Life Index, a study recently carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Hurricane season underway

3 DAYS AGO

The 2014 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15 and will end on November 30.  The season has almost gotten off to an early start, with a cluster of thunderstorms festering off the coast this month.

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Google signs on to June’s Puerto Vallarta LGBT Expo

3 DAYS AGO

Tech giant Google will be presenting a technology workshop at the 4th International LGBT Business Expo to be held in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit from June 12-14.

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San Diego closer than ever to Tijuana

3 DAYS AGO

The Tijuana International Airport is bracing for a new influx of passengers when a bridge connecting its terminal with San Diego opens in a year’s time.

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Canada speeds up visa process for Mexican travelers

3 DAYS AGO

The Canadian government has put into effect a process to speed up the delivery of visas to many Mexican citizens wishing to travel to Canada.

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Financial indicators of Thursday, May 22, 2014

3 DAYS AGO

Mexican Stock Market (BMV) opened at 41,828.98 a decrease of 315.53 points from Thursday, May 15, 2013.

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Financial indicators as of Thursday, May 15, 2014

10 DAYS AGO

Mexican Stock Market (BMV) opened at 42,144.51 an increase of 341.38 points from Thursday, May 8, 2013.

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Obituary - May 23, 2014

3 DAYS AGO
Obituary - May 23, 2014

John Jaquish died May 12, in Ajijic, two weeks after emergency abdominal surgery. He was 77.

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Obituaries - May 9, 2014

17 DAYS AGO

Larry Graves

Lakeside resident Larry Graves died April 20 at his home in San Juan Cosala at the age of 68.

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Kid who caught football bug in Guadalajara snubbed in NFL Draft after stellar college career

3 DAYS AGO

Shayne Skov, who has signed with San Francisco as an undrafted free agent, got his first taste of football with the Guadalajara Carneros (Rams).   
Looking for a different life experience, Skov’s parents moved to Guadalajara in 1999 when their son was 10.

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Lorena Ochoa golf tourney finds new home in the capital

3 DAYS AGO

After six successful years at the Guadalajara Country Club, the annual LPGA Lorena Ochoa Invitational will take place this year from November 13-16 at the Club de Golf Mexico in the Tlalpan suburb of Mexico City.

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Expat Living

Green Race exceeds expectations

11 DAYS AGO
Green Race exceeds expectations

The second annual Guadalajara Green Race and Eco-Fair, exceeding organizers expectations, raised over 125,000 pesos from runners and corporate sponsors, to fund planting over three hectares of trees in an area of the Bosque de la Primavera formerly devastated by forest fires.

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Vows of prosperity: The preachers who claim they can make you wealthy

11 DAYS AGO
Vows of prosperity: The preachers  who claim they can make you wealthy

“I came here to find healing for my arthritis,” says Valeria, sitting on the pew of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, known as Pare de sufrir, or stop suffering. “I was raised Catholic, but I came to know God in a different way here.”

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City Living - May 23, 2014

4 DAYS AGO

Kids, adolescents, parents and grandparents can have a ball at this yearly event focusing on the arts and dedicated to children.

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City Living - May 16, 2014

11 DAYS AGO

The Vienna-based art foundation, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), has teamed up with the Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ) to present “Atopia, migración, legado y ausencia de lugar,” a collection of 25 works, including two installations, that “focuses on the practices and representations of...

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Huichol runner fashions new life in Ajijic for himself & younger sibling

4 DAYS AGO

Jose Gonzalez Valenzuela doesn’t remember a time when he was not running on rough mountain trails.

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Church congregation raises funds to keep local fisher folk safe

11 DAYS AGO

The Rev. Gene Raymer and several members of The Little Chapel by the Lake traveled to the village of San Juan Tecomatlan on May 6 to distribute 20 life jackets to 17 fishermen and three fisherwomen. Missionary Dr. Daniel Boatright was the interpreter for the donation ceremony, which took place in th...

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Laguna Chapalac - May 23, 2014

3 DAYS AGO

It’s that waiting time of year again. While we once waited for Christmas, for birthdays, for the end of school, or even for the beginning of a new term of school, these days lakesiders are waiting, scanning the sky for rain clouds, and desperately begging for a cool breeze.

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Laguna Chapalac - May 16, 2014

11 DAYS AGO

My mother always said, “If you are going to do something, do it up right.”

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Fandango back in Puerto Vallarta

1 MONTHS AGO
Fandango back in Puerto Vallarta

The extravaganza combining dance, music and theater has returned to Teatro Vallarta, Uruguay 184, for another exciting run.  Fandango is a contemporary musical interpretation of Mexican cultural traditions. The production has 30 dancers and 15 musicians.

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Chacala looks to boost artistic credentials with first music festival

2 MONTHS AGO
Chacala looks to boost artistic  credentials with first music festival

Organizers are inviting one and all to enjoy “six days of music, singing, art, dancing and creativity” at the first Chacala Village Music Festival from March 24-30.

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North Banderas Beat - April 11, 2014

1 MONTHS AGO
North Banderas Beat - April 11, 2014

Spring has arrived and the snowbirds are beginning their annual flights north.

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North Banderas Beat - March 21, 2014

2 MONTHS AGO
North Banderas Beat - March 21, 2014

The north shore of Banderas Bay is once again hosting the Mexico Cup Regatta.

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La Manzanillo Memo - March 28, 2014

1 MONTHS AGO
La Manzanillo Memo - March 28, 2014

The semi-annual La Manzanilla Regatta was held Friday, March 21.

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La Manzanillo Memo – March 7, 2014

2 MONTHS AGO
La Manzanillo Memo – March 7, 2014

The high winter season is pulsing along at a rapid pace.  Here’s what a typical week looks like in our little fishing village.

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Arts & Entertainment

State orchestra firms up its summer season

4 DAYS AGO

PROGRAM 1
Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) Musical Director Marco Parisotto leads the orchestra in the opening program of the summer season.

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Entertainment Guide - May 23, 2014

4 DAYS AGO

Recitals
See free Tuesday recitals in the city’s furniture museum.  May 27: Cello octet directed by Lala Kanniña.

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Renowned artist to talk to local art group

4 DAYS AGO

Guadalajara artist Armando Melendez will be the guest speaker at the Monday, June 2, 10 a.m.  meeting of the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA).

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‘Taking Leave’ kindles laughs, tears, debate

24 DAYS AGO

The choice of “Taking Leave” by Nagle Jackson, directed by Georgette Richmond, proved a great start to the fifth season of The Naked Stage Readers’ Theatre last weekend.

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Ribera arts review - May 23, 2014

4 DAYS AGO

“The Long Weekend,” Canadian playwright Norm Foster’s hilarious look at love and marriage, is the next production of  the Naked Stage Theater.

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Ribera arts review - May 16, 2014

11 DAYS AGO

All Night Jazz Quartet is positioned to play a return engagement at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at La Rueda, the popular San Juan Cosalá coffee house and gallery at Porfirio Diaz 120.

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At the Movies: God's Not Dead and The Other Woman

4 DAYS AGO

God’s Not Dead
How far would you go…to defend your belief in God? College freshman and devout Christian, Josh Wheaton, finds his faith challenged on his first day of philosophy class. Professor Radisson begins class by informing students that they will need to disavow, in writing, the existence of Go...

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At the Movies: The Monuments Men and Oculus

11 DAYS AGO

The Monuments Men

An adaption of author Robert M. Edsel’s book “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History,” tells the incredible true story of the seven art historians and museum curators who went behind enemy lines during World War II on a mission to...

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Columns

Jalisco’s Queen of Cuisine and her ‘Smoky School of Gastronomy’

3 DAYS AGO

Maru Toledo is author of at least 19 cookbooks, typically filled with fascinating anecdotes, interviews, and, of course, recipes, all reflecting aspects of Jalisco’s oral tradition, which is disappearing.

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Eco-dream comes true as famed rock band opens plant nursery in Ahuisculco, Jalisco

11 DAYS AGO

On Thursday, May 8, vocalist Fernando “Fher” Olvera of Maná, the biggest Latin Rock Band in the world, joined supporters of Project Selva Negra in inaugurating a sprawling “Endemic Plant Nursery” near Ahuisculco, a small town located 30 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara, near Tala.

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Tiptoeing a roof’s peak, chasing fires, prepping for the rainy season, all call for alertness, endurance, and a sense of humor

4 DAYS AGO

The young girl tiptoed along the exposed wild-reed peak of a house.  She maintained her balance with arms outstretched as if she were about to fly.  She held two clay roof tiles in one hand and a near empty-pail of cement in the other.  She was seeking a broom.

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Pemex change, a cartel windfall, entices foreign oil firms unprepared for Mexico; government not being ‘candid about risks’

11 DAYS AGO

Drug gangs are said be pleased as they assess the windfall President Enrique Peña Nieto has handed them by opening Mexico’s 75-year-old state oil company, Pemex, to foreign investors, putting up for grabs this country’s portion of the rich Eagle Ford Shale deposits.

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Signs of the season

1 YEAR AGO

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 insects and snakes (never seen one here).

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Cleaning up

1 YEAR AGO

A program recently sputtering to a start up in a nearby village went looking for folks interested in picking up trash thrown hither and yon.

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Internet connection speeds: understanding the ABCs

11 DAYS AGO

Have you ever seen one of those roadside displays that say “Your speed is …?”

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Dodging geo-restrictions raises ethical questions

17 DAYS AGO

When I wanted to place an order online with Wal-Mart, I tried to pull up its U.S. website at walmart.com but every time I tried that I was instantly redirected to its Mexican site at walmart.com.mx.

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Mexican Lifestyles

Exotic fruit from the heart of Mexico arrives for its brief fling

11 DAYS AGO
Exotic fruit from the heart of Mexico arrives for its brief fling

Nothing plucks at the heartstrings of Tapatíos (Guadalajara dwellers) like the annual ritual of the pitaya — that short and splendid season when the delicate fruit with the drab exterior and blindingly brilliant if gooey interior is plucked from the stenocereus gummosus cactus in rural areas south o...

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Flying with your pet: ensure your journey is trouble-free journey

17 DAYS AGO
Flying with your pet: ensure  your journey is trouble-free journey

The first two articles discussed official requirements for importing pets into Mexico and the travel considerations involved. Now we’ll look at the trip itself.

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Savvy travelers use range of tactics to get cheaper flights

2 MONTHS AGO
Savvy travelers use range of tactics to get cheaper flights

An airline’s load factor – the percentage of seats sold on a particular flight –  would seem to be a mathematical calculation of scant relevance to most fliers. 

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Tequila trail to expand to include Tala, Ameca

8 MONTHS AGO
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 in two more Jalisco municipalities.

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Relaxing the mind, restoring the soul

17 DAYS AGO
Relaxing the mind, restoring the soul

Measuring by chronological age, Tony Bishop of Ajijic’s Hacienda del Lago Boutique Hotel and Restaurant may be one of lakeside’s youngest expats.

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The flavors of Oaxaca & a good view to boot

24 DAYS AGO

La Oaxaquita, a small, relatively new restaurant on the periphery of the immensely popular plaza outside the neogothic Expiatorio church in central Guadalajara, promises to notch up the quality of food offered around one of the city’s jewels.

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Author Karen Blue brings fresh insights on lakeside living

17 DAYS AGO
Author Karen Blue brings fresh insights on lakeside living

In 2000 Karen Blue published her first book, “Midlife Mavericks: Women Reinventing Their Lives in Mexico.”

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Recommended Mexico reading: 15 of the best

8 MONTHS AGO
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 Allyn Hunt’s column. What follows are their favorite books about Mexico in English, be they fiction or nonfiction, wide or narrow in scope. Many were or...

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Warning: Scorpion stings can vary from ‘mild’ to deadly

11 DAYS AGO
Warning: Scorpion stings can vary from ‘mild’ to deadly

These last few weeks of the dry season seem to attract far more scorpions than normal into the open, where they can be seen.

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Lakeside’s most hazardous spiders

17 DAYS AGO
Lakeside’s most hazardous spiders

Love them or hate them, spiders are the largest group of venomous animals. The worldwide spider catalog of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory lists 40,024 different identified spider species.

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Hot weather tips

As the hot season intensifies, dehydration can become an issue for some people, especially those who are not used to doing exercise under a blazing sun.  Here are some tips from Katherine Tallmadge of the Live Science website.

  • Drink enough water to prevent thirst.
  • Monitor fluid loss by checking the color of your urine. It should be pale yellow and not dark yellow, too smelly or cloudy.
  • For short-duration (less than 60 minutes), low-to-moderate-intensity activity, water is a good choice to drink before, during and after exercise.
  • Any time you exercise in extreme heat or for more than one hour, supplement water with a sports drink that contains electrolytes and six percent to 8 percent carbohydrates. This prevents “hyponatremia” (low blood sodium), which dilutes your blood and could also lead to serious impairment and death.
  • Begin exercise well-hydrated. Drink plenty of fluids the day before and within the hour before, during and after your exercise session.
  • Avoid alcohol the day before or the day of a long exercise bout, and avoid exercising with a hangover.

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