GUADALAJARA - Some world-class photographers tear out their hair in frustration trying to persuade museum and art gallery curators to host exhibitions of their work.

Festival de Luces Chapala 2008 blasts off Wednesday, December 10, bringing five days and nights of glittering firework spectacles to the city’s waterfront tourist zone.

Puerto Vallarta city hall has announced the purchase of an urban video surveillance system that will feature 48 cameras at a cost of 30 million pesos (2.2 million dollars).

Lake Chapala was the initial destination for a pair of Italian travel experts who toured Jalisco communities this week in conjunction with their attendance at the University of Guadalajara’s International Book Fair (FIL).

What do you get when you combine a venerated author, a renowned book fair and a popular form of entertainment – opera – treating a theme steeped in Mexican pride and heartbreak?