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Nina and Grupo Luna Azul
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
9:00 p.m., Caliente Race Track
Baja Blogs
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Ghost Story
By refriedgringo - October 31, 2009
It’s becoming funny sometimes, as if I really live in Los Angeles or New York or some other city ...
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Flowerbeds Of Narcissism
By refriedgringo - October 22, 2009
If we exist believing that our views and opinions are not correct, second-guessing our every movement according to our insecurities, ...
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A Man Can't Just Sit Around
By refriedgringo - October 18, 2009
On July 19th, 1984, page twenty-two in the San Diego Union-Tribune ran an Associated Press article about a balloonist ...
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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.
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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 Stories
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Welfare Demanded
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 25, 2009
Two-hundred Taxi Libre taxistas descended upon the Servicio Médico Forense (forensic medical service) on Friday, October 23, to give support to the family of a taxi driver murdered while cruising for fares Wednesday afternoon. The taxi ...
Cop Killers Caught?
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 21, 2009
The spate of police killings in Tijuana may have been quelled with the detention of three suspects by the Mexican army following a shoot-out with municipal police last Saturday. The individuals, Edgar Sauceda Rodriguez, Francisco Peralta ...
Gays to Rescue Rosarito?
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 21, 2009
Rosarito plans to launch a promotional campaign to make the beach resort a vacation center for gays. Efarid Rodriguez Carrillo is in charge of the project, modeling it on several similar “alternative tourism” projects that he ...
Eat Up, Countrymen
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 18, 2009
A line has been cast to get more Mexicans hooked on sardines. Strategies are being devised by the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Pesquera y Aquicole (National Chamber of Fisheries and Aquaculture) to beguile Mexicans into ...
Tourism Snapshot
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 14, 2009
Carnival Cruise Line has opted to suspend docking the Elation in Ensenada, starting next April. The company rep stated that the cruise line “no longer felt welcome” at its longtime port of call, as communicated in ...
Rush Hour Spectacle
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 10, 2009
The naked and tortured body of a state tax employee, Rogelio Sanchez Jimenez, was found hanging from a bridge over the free road to Rosarito Beach on Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. A huge traffic jam ...
Saved from the Soup
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 9, 2009
Authorities in Ensenada rescued three big sea turtles from certain death this week, according to the daily Frontera. The turtles had spent days imprisoned in a lavatory, their flippers bound with twine. The migratory marine reptiles, ...
The Last Trick
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 7, 2009
Authorities have arrested three Tijuana teenagers for allegedly killing a man who refused to pay a prostitute for services, the Baja California attorney general said in a statement issued on Tuesday, October 6. Sulivan Ibarra Villanueva, ...
Puerto Nuevo, Mexico
Baja
| Mexico
| Puerto Nuevo
| Travel
Published Oct. 7, 2009
“Hay langosta aqui! Tres por quince dolares!” Ten legs jut out from a slender form. It’s dark red in parts and golden in other sections. Your salivary glands are jolted. Yes, Puerto Nuevo lobster times are ...
Killed for Dollars
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 3, 2009
As 18-year-old José de Jesús Lamas Herrera walked along Virgo Street on June 28 in Tijuana’s Colonia Reacomodo Sánchez Taboada, someone walked up to him, pulled out a pistol, and shot him dead. Authorities now say ...
Tow Yard Tussle
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 2, 2009
A Tijuana man ended up in police custody after he allegedly went to a towing company’s impound yard on Tuesday night, September 29, and forcibly reclaimed his cherry-colored Ford. Employees of Zabad Towing said the man ...
French Scope in Mexico
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 2, 2009
France has cut a deal with the Baja California government to house a French-made robotic telescope that will track the celestial movements of a French satellite known as SVOM, which is to be launched in 2012. ...
No Nonsense Padre
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 2, 2009
A priest and a sacristan fought off and subdued a would-be robber at María Madre de la Iglesia parish in Tijuana’s Colonia Jardines del Rubí neighborhood on Wednesday night, September 30, according to a municipal police ...
Porn Peddler in the Parque
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 1, 2009
An alleged sex offender on the lam from California since 2007 was captured by Baja California state police early Wednesday morning, September 30, in front of Parque de la Amistad in Tijuana’s Mesa de Otay neighborhood. ...
Mexi-Money Modified
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Sept. 25, 2009
Those who like to use pesos in lieu of dollars when you visit Mexico will be interested to learn of the new, albeit temporary, look of the popular 100- and 200-peso notes. According to the daily ...
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