Tijuana-Ensenada toll road near Salsipuedes under repair
Father's Day gringos react
Mike Madriaga 3 p.m., June 22
Feature Stories
A year in an immigrant’s shirt
Garment art.
While crossing the border at San Ysidro, Valentina Forte-Hernandez, an unassuming and petite artist, aroused the suspicion of border agents due to the tangle of wires and circuits in her trunk. She had to submit ...
Difference-making fresh tortillas
Usually, I preach all corn tortillas, all the time. But for Don Pollo, I make an exception.
Tacos La Mezcla (at Fall Brewing) In Spanish, mezcla means mixture, and this mobile kitchen may be best known for mixing it up with a fusion twist, filling tortillas with carne asada recast as sweet ...
San Ysidro fizzling
Orgiastic monolith to America’s military might?
There’s nowhere to eat that isn’t a fast food chain. Nowhere to get a coffee or, god forbid, a beer. Nowhere to see anything like live music.
Susan Luzzaro
October 12, 1948 - May 1, 2017
Susan Luzzaro passed away peacefully in her home in Chula Vista on May 1 at the age of 68 following a year-long struggle with brain cancer. Luzzaro wrote for the Reader since 1999; her coverage ...
Home is where you park it
Trailer life at Sandy Shores RV Park in Oceanside
Each morning I wake up to the continuous hum of the traffic on I-5, crawl out of my bed, and take one step into the bathroom. After I shower — the shower being only half ...
Slavery trial draws all eyes to San Diego
Blue-blood justice.
In October 1946, near the end of a 33-day cross-country trip from Massachusetts to San Diego, the prominent Boston blue-blood couple of Alfred and Elizabeth Ingalls stopped over in Berkeley, California, to visit their daughter, ...
Barrio Carlsbad endures
“People stay here if they can, because it’s a walkable neighborhood with little crime.”
From the beach, walk inland up Carlsbad Village Drive. Pass the beach bungalows that rent for $4000 a month and beach mansions listed for sale at $7 million. Check out the pricey condominiums with floor-to-ceiling ...
The legs get stuck in your teeth
Tijuana grasshopper salesmen get bugged
“Buddy! Over here! Buy something, amigo! It’s all cheap! Free tequila shot!” Street salesmen in Tijuana usually try to shove things down your throat, whether you want them or not. They yell at you in ...
Not your dad’s youth group
Interview with C3 Church pastor David Chiddick
Arms wave in the air, hands outstretched as if to grab something fleeting. It’s Friday night at MyCity Youth, fists and music pumping. Teenagers and preteens sway transfixed, all eyes on the stage, where a ...
Mingus and poul fri among newest Tijuana residents
Haitian chicken fight song
Cue the upright bass solo in G minor. Enter trombones. Enter drums. Enter saxophones. All in a long crescendo. “My solo in it is a deeply concentrated one,” said jazz man Charles Mingus about “Haitian ...
Like a dodgeball ninja
Deception and blood on the gym floor.
If you mention dodgeball to someone over 18 years of age the most likely response will be to either praise or denigrate the 2004 film of the same name starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. ...
Top local news stories of 2016
Assaulted by clean-cut guy at the stoplight, terrorists coming through Mexican border, cracking cliffs, the Pokémon Go craze, Jehovah's Witnesses, sex trafficking, and I.B. rent
What are you doing here? I'm married! “I was in the turn lane, and he stopped his car in the middle lane next to me even though there were no cars in front of him,” ...
Gold in the drought age
Sol Invictus rules
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red ...
