San Miguel de Allende Atención San Miguel, the best information in print and online! December 6
By Antonio De Jesús Aguado The most important Jazz and Blues Festival in Latin America has begun, and it features along with incredible concerts free workshops, movies and an homage to Paul Simon. The Festival has been held for 19 years in a row, and it has become not just the most important festival of [...]
By Antonio De Jesús Aguado A group of foreign and Mexican residents gathered under the name Sanmiguelenses Unidos (Sanmiguelenses United) recently asked local and state authorities to participate in a forum on how to improve security in the municipality. More meetings will be held in the future, and the organizers expect to have representatives from [...]
By Jade Arroyo The Biblioteca Pública is one of the most enduring institutions in town, dedicated for 59 years now to the promotion and support of education and culture in San Miguel, particularly focused on the youngest generations. The institution offers book loans and art and music workshops and is a venue for community theater, [...]
By Jade Arroyo Salsas y Sabores Bistro serves up enticing dishes with a wonderful and delicate mix of flavors, fruit of the creativity and intuition of María Auxilio Trujillo. Her restaurant had been a well-kept secret of local foodies, but its popularity is growing steadily. Her own roots show a mix of influences and love [...]
By Jade Arroyo Mariposas San Miguel is an enterprise that promotes the development and skills of female textile artisans in the rural community of San Antonio de la Joya (located 30 minutes from town, toward Guanajuato). Based on the tenets of fair trade (fair price and wages, democracy, dignity, ecology, transparency), Mariposas San Miguel supports [...]
By Antonio De Jesús Aguado René Urrutia, the district attorney in zone D, which includes San Miguel, talked to Atención about a new form of telephone extortion reported in the city and gave advice so people can avoid the emotional and economic damages that can result from this crime. According to Urritia, telephone extortion is [...]
By Antonio De Jesús Aguado Currently, the Ecology Department has stopped trimming trees in Parque Juárez and El Chorro, but it will resume in the future to maintain the safety of sanmiguelenses and some nearby buildings by pruning or removing damaged trees. At the end of September, the Department of Ecology said that forestry work [...]
By Jade Arroyo Sollano 16 is a store known for good taste and elegance; it has been located at this address for 10 years, bringing products into the country from all over the world along with an exclusive collection of Mexican furnishings and accessories. As a part of this lifestyle and home collection, the shop [...]
By Antonio De Jesús Aguado A collection of 80 engravings entitled “Los Caprichos de Goya” is being exhibited in Casa de Cultura Banamex until January 2014. Admission is free. In the exhibit the themes range from the realistic to the fanciful, between the conscious and the unconscious. The pieces reflect an artist who has liberated [...]
By Antonio De Jesús Aguado November is not just the most appropriate month to flirt with death, but also to show her that we are full of life. The modern traditions associated with the Day of the Dead have their roots in ancient Mesoamerican culture. Here in San Miguel many ofrendas, often called altars in English, are set up to honor [...]
