Baja Photos
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Baja Events
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Hypnosis Shows
Thursday, May 15, 2008
7:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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Hypnosis Shows
Thursday, May 15, 2008
9:30 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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Elan
Thursday, May 15, 2008
10:00 p.m., The Rock
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Hypnosis Shows
Friday, May 16, 2008
7:00 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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Hypnosis Shows
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:30 p.m., Centro Cultural Tijuana
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"Brain Show"
Friday, May 16, 2008
8:00 p.m., Multiforo ICBC
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Comedy!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
9:00 p.m., Grand Hotel Tijuana
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"Homage to Ensenada"
Saturday, May 17, 2008
5:00 p.m., Centro Estatal de las Artes
Baja Stories
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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 ...
¡Baja!: Cooking on the Edge
Baja
| Reading
Published Jan. 11, 2007
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 its cuisine. Light, simple, vibrantly fresh. ...
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
Author Luis 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 ...
Tijuana's Abandoned Car Problem
Baja
| City Lights
Published June 10, 2004
Though the municipal government unveils a new mass-transit proposal every few years, the fact remains: Tijuana is a city of cars. But it isn't a city of new cars. Only the wealthiest of tijuanenses drive new ...
Lifelike Tijuana
Baja
| City Lights
Published March 11, 2004
There are three wax-figure museums in all of Mexico. Two of them, Mexico City's and Tijuana's, owe their existence to Ricardo Parra Montes. "I was the director of tourism for the Mexico City government in 1978 ...
House Glut Stuns Tijuana
Baja
| City Lights
Published Jan. 1, 2004
Prospective home buyers in San Diego have waited for months for prices to stop their upward climb. In Tijuana, they're no longer waiting. Many Tijuanenses are leaving the city's colossal rental market and buying their own ...
Best of 2003: Best Campsite In A Wheelchair
Baja
| Best of San Diego
Published Dec. 25, 2003
Salsipuedes About 50 miles south of the border "It's just a little turnoff on the road to Ensenada, about midway through that little mountainous section," explains Vern. "You come around this corner and there's an olive ...