January 2023

By Don Krim Students of architecture have architect role models whose work speaks to them.  For Jóvenes Adelante students Luz María Muñoz Ruiz and Luis Antonio Galvan De La Vega, those architects are Mexican master Luis Barragán and Japanese great Tadeo Ando.  Their common ground is the simplicity of construction materials that, if not wholly […]

By Joseph Plummer  Two architectural students at the San Miguel de Allende campus of Universidad de Leon will narrate a tour in slides of the ancient temples and palaces of Mexico’s East Coast during this UUFSMA Sunday Service. Students Pedro Hernandez and Jose Luis Servin will describe the structural wonders of architectural treasures they explored […]

By Natalie Taylor Don Krim and David Russell were married and living in Los Angeles in 1998. Krim was revisiting his vocal studies and discovering his classical, countertenor instrument with a teacher in Europe. Russell was winding down his involvement as owner and publisher of the Advocate. All they needed was the perfect place to […]

By Don Krim   “Afterglow” shines right through their face masks! Pride, relief, exhaustion, and a new self-confidence follows discovering the producers and leaders they have become. “They” are three Jóvenes Adelante Scholars, Juan Pablo Del Ángel Vázquez, María De Los Ángeles Urbina Téllez, and Miguel Rivera Bustamante, majoring in Gestión Empresarial (Business Entrepeneurship) at the […]

By Natalie Taylor Ana Thiel was born in Mexico City and from the time she was a little girl, she remembers using her hands to make things. She credits her mother for awakening that interest, because she would give cardboard to Ana and her brothers, and challenge them to create objects.  Ana studied Industrial Design […]

By Fernanda Noriega What characterizes San Miguel de Allende, it is that rustic personality and impeccable aesthetics. It is not unusual to see that mansions, hotels and other establishments share the same style both indoors and out, because there are many local artisans and interior design establishments.  Guajuye used to be a factory, well known […]

By Don Krim Destinos Brillantes. Some see their Brilliant Destiny earlier than others. Hector Granados Sandoval, a 2021 entry into Jóvenes Adelante attends La Salle University in the Bajio – a school he chose because it offered studies in what, for Mexico, are new academic fields: Criminology: the social science studying antisocial behaviors, their causal […]

enero 2023 Dom 29 Casa de la Noche Órganos 19, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Poetry share, 3-4:30pm, The Not Dead (Yet) Poets Society, every Sunday, Casa de la Noche Oganos 19. Read your own words, those of others or come to listen and share … Dom 29 JC3 Moras 47 corner 5 Mayo Col […]

By Carlos Ramírez Zago Dani Alves is out of Pumas The 15th Court of Instruction of Barcelona sent Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves to provisional prison without bail for an alleged sexual assault on a young woman in a nightclub in Barcelona. The events took place on the night of December 30, 2022, at the […]