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Baja Events
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Nina and Grupo Luna Azul
Thursday, March 11, 2010
9:00 p.m., Caliente Race Track
Baja Blogs
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Destination: The French Gourmet
By JohnEdwardRangel - March 9, 2010
It recently dawned on me that I've spent most of my blogging time writing about my work commute, or life ...
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A Little Love for TJ
By antigeekess - February 27, 2010
Tijuana moves, but never hurries. Tijuana makes music, makes mischief, makes noise, makes news, makes ...
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Tijuana bars new hours
By JohnEdwardRangel - February 20, 2010
Tijuana's municipal police force recently began cracking down on the hours that bars can stay open. By law, ...
Baja Photos
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kimrescate: The Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado or Islas Coronados) are a group of four islands off the northwest coast of the Mexican state of Baja California. ...
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dannyyypena: This photo was taken in Tijuana, I was on my way to walk across to the US side of the border and I noticed this ...
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symreader: I took these pictures and still I do not believe it!! (Ensenada, México)
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ijoanna: Just some of the probably hundreds of seals resting on a semi sunken ship about 3 miles into the water from Ensenada's malecon
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refriedgringo: The master of ceremonies, the matador, the rejoneador, and the cuadrilla opening the ceremonies at a bullfight in Playas de Tijuana.
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refriedgringo: Masks.
Baja Stories
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Don’t Mess with Karate Guys
By T.B. Beaudeau, March 6, 2010
Four municipal cops have been arrested for robbing the president of an international Tae Kwon Do organization who was in town to preside over a championship contest. The event brought hundreds of practitioners of the martial ...
Puffers' Paradise
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 25, 2010
The two-year-old state law banning the smoking of tobacco in Baja’s bars, bistros, and restaurants — “Ley Antitabaco” — is being ignored by the patrons who puff. In fact, the absence of enforcement is visible through ...
A Little Rock, a Little Bite
By Ed Bedford, Feb. 24, 2010
It’s 11:00 at night, downtown TJ. “Only, only Marcelino, Only, only pan y vino…” Carlos Ubario Macias sings merrily away. He’s sitting on the stool next to me, out on the street at Marcelino’s tiny counter. ...
Carnaval in Ensenada, Mexico
By Dominic DeGrazier, Feb. 20, 2010
I had two days off, three friends, and the urge to find a Carnaval celebration close by. I could have looked in my city of San Diego, but Mexico continually draws me in. Enter Ensenada. Done. ...
Lawyers Fret
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 18, 2010
During the early years of Google Maps and Google Earth, any street information stopped at the California border, although cities such as Paris, France, and San Francisco were viewable as satellite aerials. Since February 9, Google ...
Tijuana's Downtown Revival
By Lorena Mancilla, Feb. 17, 2010
A Schizoid City Tijuana has suffered from multiple personality disorder for way too long. It’s been a place for trade and fugitives — for anyone who needed to escape from anything, whether it be extreme poverty, ...
From 18 to 86
By David Alton Dodd, Feb. 16, 2010
On Sunday — Valentine’s Day — what is believed to have been the largest mass wedding in Tijuana’s history took place at Parque Morelos, in the La Mesa delegation of Tijuana. At just before 11 in ...
By the Book
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 13, 2010
It appears that a Mexican law requiring citizens of the United States to carry passports when crossing into Tijuana will go into effect beginning March of this year. In an article published in Frontera, Mario Escobedo ...
Bullet for a Brother
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 11, 2010
In a contretemps that the TJ newspaper La Segunda referred to as a confuso incidente, a patrol team of the city police shot a member of the state investigative police after he failed to pull his ...
Ripped Up, Revamped
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 3, 2010
Calle Articulo Unos Dos Tres, more commonly known as First Street — one of the oldest streets in TJ — is being ripped up and revamped as part of a program designed to create a more ...
Mysterious Danish group builds exotic compound on Baja Coast
By Michael Waterman, Feb. 3, 2010
In the early 1970s, my late grandfather, an artist and retired San Diego State art professor, took me camping to a beautiful and remote setting along Baja’s northwest coast. While exploring the peninsula’s back roads, he ...
Tijuana, Refined
By T.B. Beaudeau, Feb. 2, 2010
City government has mandated that the sale of alcohol in Tijuana will now be limited. The local business organization, Cómite Empresarial y Turistico Mexicano (CETURMEX), salutes the limited hours of sale as a way of demonstrating ...
Sunshine Away
By T.B. Beaudeau, Jan. 24, 2010
Two young children swept into a flashflood while inside an auto with their mother have yet to be found and are presumed drowned. On Wednesday night, January 20, the two children (Virginia Cruz Mendez, age five, ...
Ruthless Rains
By T.B. Beaudeau, Jan. 21, 2010
Residents of the Tijuana River Valley region experienced localized flooding, mudslides in outlying colonias, and the usual accumulation of trash that flows down spontaneous streams and clogs the storm drains. A 50-foot tall, 60-something-year-old tree snapped ...
By Bus, For Free
By T.B. Beaudeau, Jan. 21, 2010
Recently, after 30 illegal immigrants were deported by U.S. authorities and dropped off in Tijuana, the Mexicans were given the opportunity to be transported back to the interior from whence they came, via bus, for free. ...
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