The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In what promises to be an enjoyable prelude to its regular season beginning in October, the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ) will play for three performances by the illustrious Ballet de Jalisco in Russian pianist and composer Sergei Prokofiev’s popular ballet “Cinderella” (“Cenicienta” in Spanish).
Queen without Freddie Mercury, Police without Sting and Dire Straits without Mark Knopfler. What’s that all about? Like scones without the clotted cream and jam?
In a cultural first for this state, on September 13 the 98 members of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra gave a performance inside the Puente Grande state penitentiary located on the outskirts of Guadalajara.
Yet another inter-city bus has plunged into a ravine in western Mexico, this time killing ten people in the municipality of Villa de Arriaga in San Luis Potosi in the early evening of Monday, September 11.
There is no exact record of Miguel Hidalgo’s rousing speech that set off a nationwide revolt against Mexico’s Spanish rulers in 1810, but the spirit is captured in modern day orations that will climax with a litany glorifying national heroes and howling cheers of “Viva Mexico!” on Friday, September 15.
A tragedy at a Zapopan underpass occurred just a few hours after this newspaper went to press last week—an edition in which we published a front-page image and caption highlighting the dangers of flash flooding in Guadalajara tunnels.
Celebrities from Mexico’s entertainment industries will swarm into Guadalajara this weekend, as the city hosts the Ariel Awards (Mexico’s equivalent to the Academy Awards), marking the first time the event has been held outside Mexico City in its 65-year history.
If you own a pre-1980 classic car you might wish to participate in the first Distinguished Gentleman’s Drive event to be held in Guadalajara.
UdeG Ballet
The famed Ballet Folclórico de la Universidad de Guadalajara are in the middle of therir summer season.
