Cover Stories

We went to Mexico to get ahead. We smuggled cheese to get back.

An American couple moves to Tijuana to avoid the high cost of living in the U.S. They become food smugglers for Mexicans living in the U.S.

We couldn't have built it without Kickstarter

Love and money from a website

San Diegans have had varying degrees of success raising money for their business ventures through Kickstarter.

Still fat

I didn’t know who this poor girl was to be so hated by Jimmy, but I felt sorry for her. I was the lucky girl who got to share a desk with him. “It’s YOU!” ...

Bay dreams

Good and ghastly ideas for our waterfront

What could we do with our waterfront, if we really put our thinking caps on?

We sing for bling

Busking highs and lows

Danger and sometimes $100 an hour.

We don’t belong to Mexico and we don’t belong to the U.S. We are our own universe.

We’re loud in anything we do

Few have captured Tijuana's cool new vivacity like filmmaker Aaron Soto.

That’s life, and life’s not easy

Gangland style

Curtis Howard writes about his time as a gang member and his struggle to leave that life behind.

Retro Rumble

Old school revisited.

Happy housewives and Mad Men, good for business.

Come to Romney Country

Related to the presidential candidate by blood and religion; each traveling separate roads. On a sultry day in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in July 1846, 496 Mormon men, accompanied by many wives, children, and at least ...

Deported

Glad to be gone.

"The only good thing that America brought me was my son. I want to stay here in Mexico."