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Baja Events
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Jazz Time
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008
6:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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Readings
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
7:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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"Japan, Poetic Expression"
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008
7:30 p.m., Centro Estatal de las Artes
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"Del Otro Lado de la Linea"
Friday, Aug. 22, 2008
6:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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Alberto Vazquez
Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008
9:00 p.m., Grand Hotel Tijuana
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Manu Chao
Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008
8:00 p.m., Monumental Bullring by the Sea
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"And You, Where Are You From?"
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008
7:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
Baja Photos
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Kenbrant: If there is one tree that signifies the special quality of Baja, it is the Boojum, scientifically known as Fouquieria columnaris. Those who've travelled south ...
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Baja Stories
Tacos Are a Tiny Taste of Temptation
Baja
| Chula Vista
| City Heights
| College Area
| Coronado
| Cover Story
| Downtown
| Fallbrook
| Gaslamp
| Hillcrest
| Imperial Beach
| La Jolla
| Lemon Grove
| Logan Heights
| Midway
| Mira Mesa
| Normal Heights
| North Park
| Oceanside
| Otay Mesa
| Pacific Beach
| Solana Beach
Published Jan. 23, 2008
Fancy wimmen are okay, but there's nuttin' like the real thing: a nice warm adobada taco on a nice cold night beside a nice hot grill outside a friendly taco catering truck, with that marinated pork ...
Tijuana is a Wonderland
Back When
| Baja
Published Oct. 4, 2007
Thirty Years Ago BOB CLARK: What are you up to? I'm cut off from civilization up here in hicktown with no Reader. "Charlie Mansoneer." YOU BETTER believe there are real women out here, but you won't ...
Classic San Diego
Baja
| Coronado
| Cover Story
| El Cajon
| Fallbrook
| Gaslamp
| Hillcrest
| Inland Border Towns
| Julian
| La Jolla
| Lakeside
| Pala
| Potrero
| SDSU
| Vista
Published April 12, 2007
Most-Filmed Wild West Main Street Don't look yet. Turn off Woodside onto Maine and behold a li'l old Wild West street that'll knock your spurs off. It huddles beneath a perfect movie-set backdrop of towering granite ...
¡Baja!: Cooking on the Edge
Baja
| What's That You're Reading
Published Jan. 11, 2007
Baja! Cooking on the Edge by Deborah M. Schneider. Photographs by Maren Caruso. Rodale, 2006, 274 pages, $27.95 FROM THE DUST JACKET: Chef Deborah Schneider first saw Baja in the '80s and fell in love with ...
Mexico's Secret Vineyards
Baja
| Crush
Published Jan. 11, 2007
Christoph Gaertner wanted out of Switzerland. "I was bored," he explains, standing in the tasting room of Vinisterra, one of the more recent winery ventures to spring up in Baja California. "In Europe, everything is full ...
Boosting Baja's Image
Baja
| Crush
Published Oct. 19, 2006
A friend of mine who worked in wine retail for a while used to hand-sell Beringer White Zinfandel. It's not that he thought it was particularly good. It's that he was looking beyond what the customer ...
I'm overjoyed whenever I see references to Mexican wine in the literature.
Baja
| Crush
Published Oct. 19, 2006
A friend of mine who worked in wine retail for a while used to hand-sell Beringer White Zinfandel. It's not that he thought it was particularly good. It's that he was looking beyond what the customer ...
Meet me at Mustafa's. I'll jump in your car and show you the valley.
Baja
| Crush
Published Sept. 21, 2006
In an odd little way -- a way not intended to inflate significances and circumstances beyond their proper size -- it's as if Steve Dryden's whole life has been leading up to where he is now: ...
TJ Cultural Center Opens Time Portals
Baja
| Calendar Highlight
Published Dec. 22, 2005
Museo de las Californias, a permanent installation at the Tijuana Cultural Center depicting the history of the Baja California peninsula, leads museumgoers on a regional time-trek beginning 73 million years ago and ending in 1935. The ...
Tijuana Muscle
Baja
| Cover Story
Published Sept. 29, 2005
"This gym, NeoSpa, opened in 1988. It was started by a Russian group that came to Tijuana. They came up with the name and made the original investment. They also opened a disco and a health ...
A Tijuana Better Than In My Memory
Baja
| Cover Story
Published Aug. 25, 2005
We contemplated our options. One ecstasy pill, check. Two 20-year-old women looking to party, check. Location was the hard part -- where can you party your brains out and act like an idiot without getting into ...
Tijuana Gardens
Baja
| Cover Story
Published June 23, 2005
I didn't recognize where I was. "Things have changed a lot," said Jorge Rodríguez, leading me out of the rain, into his two-story cinder-block house. "I came to Los Arenales looking for new horizons," he said. ...
Scope out the twin Tecates (Mexico and California) from a vantage point high atop Tecate Peak.
Baja
| Roam-O-Rama
Published April 28, 2005
Tecate Peak straddles the U.S./Mexico border, overlooking the twin towns of Tecate, California and Tecate, Baja California. Kumeyaay Indians called this peak "Kuchumaa," and believed that a holy power, for healing or harm, emanated from the ...
Tour the Tijuana Estuary National Estuarine Research Reserve for a look at some of the 400+ species of birds that visit or nest here.
Baja
| Roam-O-Rama
Published Feb. 17, 2005
Four square miles of marshes, tidal creeks, and sage-and chaparral-covered hillsides in and around the Tijuana River Estuary enjoy federal protection under the tongue-twisting title "Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve." The area includes Border Field ...
America Broke My Heart, Tijuana Blew My Mind
Baja
| City Lights
Published June 24, 2004
AuthorLuis Urrea embodies contradiction. Though Mexican, he is blond-haired and blue-eyed. Though born in Tijuana and raised in San Diego, he lives in the cold and humidity of Chicago. Though he's written four books about the ...