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Baja Events
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Carnifex
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
Le Drug Store
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"Hypnotic Show"
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
6:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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"Hypnotic Show"
Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009
9:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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"Dhammapada"
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009
7:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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Wedding and Bridal Expo
Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009
11:00 a.m., Camino Real Hotel
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Kenbrant: The Valley of Guadalupe is Mexico's premier wine region, and only a short drive from the U.S. along Highway 3 between Tecate and Ensenada. This ...
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Kenbrant: When crossing into Mexico at the town of Tecate, look towards the median at the plaque with a bust of John F. Kennedy. It comes ...
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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 Blogs
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Everything's Zen
By refriedgringo - January 1, 2009
"The reverse side also has a reverse side." ~ Japanese proverb. I pointed at the crescent moon this ...
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Merry Christmas, Ted
By refriedgringo - December 27, 2008
Christmas Eve was easy. Rocio’s parents opted for an early meal, breaking with their traditional midnight dinner, and they ate ...
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My Lump Of Coal
By refriedgringo - December 24, 2008
I am imagining that, as a gift to all of humanity, global warming is taking a vacation so that my ...
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Flow
By refriedgringo - December 20, 2008
On Monday, as Anna arrived home early from school just as the sky darkened, the rain began slowly and then ...
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Plastic Buckets
By refriedgringo - December 12, 2008
I met up with Scott accidentally when I got back to Centro after a short trip into the United States ...
Baja Stories
Suicide Tourism
Baja
| Cover Story
Published Aug. 20, 2008
Tijuana has long attracted people seeking medicine and medical procedures unavailable or unaffordable in their home countries. They've been joined recently by people seeking the means to kill themselves. And some of them are coming from ...
Greetings from Tijuana
Baja
| Cover Story
Published Aug. 6, 2008
The End of the World A mile east of the Tijuana International Airport is an area police call El Fin del Mundo, the End of the World, where drug-cartel assassins dump their victims. Both Mexican and ...
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 ...
Mexico's Tuscan Spirit
Baja
| Crush
Published Jan. 25, 2007
Eileen Gregory didn't set out to open a popular restaurant/inn/spa/winemaking operation in Baja wine country and, in so doing, aid and abet the transformation and revitalization of the region. Together with her husband Phil, she set ...
¡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 ...
Cult Wine
Baja
| Crush
Published Sept. 28, 2006
Three years ago, Steve Dryden arrived in Baja's wine country, looking for a niche -- a way to spend his retirement living close to the wine world, preferably on the touring/writing side of things. It didn't ...
A Tour of Baja Vines
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. ...