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  • 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. ...

    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. ...

  • 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 ...

    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 ...

  • I took these pictures and still I do not believe it!! (Ensenada, México)

    symreader: I took these pictures and still I do not believe it!! (Ensenada, México)

  • Just some of the probably hundreds of seals resting on a semi sunken ship about 3 miles into the water from Ensenada's malecon

    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

  • The master of ceremonies, the matador, the rejoneador, and the cuadrilla opening the ceremonies at a bullfight in Playas de Tijuana.

    refriedgringo: The master of ceremonies, the matador, the rejoneador, and the cuadrilla opening the ceremonies at a bullfight in Playas de Tijuana.

  • Masks.

    refriedgringo: Masks.

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Don’t Mess with Karate Guys

Don’t Mess with Karate Guys

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Post a comment


Puffers' Paradise

Puffers' Paradise

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comments (9)


A Little Rock, a Little Bite

A Little Rock, a Little Bite

Baja | Tin Fork
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. ... More Comments (2)


Carnaval in Ensenada, Mexico

Carnaval in Ensenada, Mexico

Baja | Mexico | Travel
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. ... More Post a comment


Lawyers Fret

Lawyers Fret

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comment (1)


Tijuana's Downtown Revival

Tijuana's Downtown Revival

Baja | Yonder Lies It
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, ... More Comments (3)


From 18 to 86

From 18 to 86

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comments (7)


By the Book

By the Book

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comments (2)


Bullet for a Brother

Bullet for a Brother

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comments (2)


Ripped Up, Revamped

Ripped Up, Revamped

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comments (3)


Mysterious Danish group builds exotic compound on Baja Coast

Mysterious Danish group builds exotic compound on Baja Coast

Baja | Cover Story
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 ... More Comments (7)


Tijuana, Refined

Tijuana, Refined

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Comments (14)


Sunshine Away

Sunshine Away

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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, ... More Post a comment


Ruthless Rains

Ruthless Rains

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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 ... More Post a comment


By Bus, For Free

By Bus, For Free

Baja | Neighborhood News from Stringers
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. ... More Comment (1)

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