When a couple of lakeside expatriates with a hunger for healthful, naturally-grown produce began building ties with local organic farmers, none of them imagined that a few months later a one-on-one business relationship would develop into a community enterprise. But that is what has happened in the six months since the farmers began making weekly visits to a private home to set up a backyard market of their goods.

Saturday live broadcasts from the New York Metropolitan Opera start up again in early October at Guadalajara’s Teatro Diana.

In the film “Billy Elliott,” a young working-class boy from a mining town in northern England shuns boxing to learn ballet despite the fierce resistance of his down-to-earth family. Against all the odds, and thanks to the determination of his feisty teacher, Billy is given the chance of an audition at the prestigious Royal Ballet School in London.

“Guadalajara chose me,” explains American-Mexican photographer Marshall – the only name he uses. He is answering the inevitable question about what brought him eight years ago to live in this city.