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Mexico after the millenium

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Praga: Italian at a Czech restaurant in Mexico

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Neighborhood News San Ysidro Tijuana

Eight northbound lanes added at San Ysidro crossing

On July 23, construction in Tijuana commenced of the eight lanes leading into the San Ysidro Port of Entry. “With this expansion we will be reaching 35 lanes, and what ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

Virus kills her cross-border job in San Diego

“All of us that had to leave our families for the American dream, we paid a high price: not living with who we love,” said Amanda López, a 50-year-old Mexican ...

Baja From the archives Tijuana

Mexico after the millenium

Smugglersville “The cops mess with us. The thieves mess with us. Everybody messes with us.” I was hobbling back from the store with a liter of milk, when I saw ...

Tijuana Tin Fork

Praga: Italian at a Czech restaurant in Mexico

Tijuana! It feels like a lifetime. I’m down here checking on when Caesar Hotel’s opening. (They say they’re looking at mid-July.) And, hey hey! There’s my fave cafe, Praga, right ...

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Neighborhood News Tijuana

79 days of Tijuana quarantine

“I don’t think we’ll be opening the bar until September or until there is a vaccine,” says Dany aka ‘Drago,’ founder of Dragon Rojo Rockbar and a hospital worker by trade. “I keep the bar ...

June 19, 2020

Chula Vista Neighborhood News San Diego Beer News Tijuana

Beer bought in San Diego flows into tapped-out Tijuana

Because major-brand beer has become almost impossible to find in Tijuana, some crossborder locals have taken advantage of their essential trips to San Diego to take some cerveza back home. “I pick up a little ...

May 26, 2020

Neighborhood News Tijuana

April 27, 2020

118 deaths in Baja due to the virus

“You know my brother and I got it, right?” My friend Mariana texted me a few weeks ago after I posted the story about the coronavirus piñatas. Mariana’s brother, Juan, is my private doctor in ...

San Diego Beer News Tijuana

April 3, 2020

What to do when they stop making Heineken and Modelo

As soon as the news hit, we received ten orders,” says Carlos Macklis owner of Norte Brewing Co. “We stopped producing but we are still selling our beer. I’m acting as the delivery boy driving ...

Baja Neighborhood News Tijuana

March 30, 2020

Some Mexican border travelers are undaunted

“Please stay in the U.S. whether they let you cross or not,” Cathy G. pleaded to her fellow-expats on Facebook. “It’s your choice to make, knowing the consequences — you could be a carrier with ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

March 27, 2020

Tijuana tangos with corona

“It’s a huge mess of disinformation,” says the co-owner of one of the new trendy restaurants in downtown Tijuana (we talked online, she prefers to remain anonymous). “My dad is over at city hall right ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

March 18, 2020

Panic shopping spreads to Tijuana

“You look like a meme,” I told my friend Beto when I spotted him at the checkout line of my local Calimax with a cart full of toilet paper and paper towels on Friday the ...

Baja City Lights Tijuana

March 4, 2020

Behind T.J's black market for cars

When Lando Martinez returned to his south San Diego home on January 20, his 1995 Honda Del Sol was missing. “I parked the car in front of our new house on the 16th,” he said, ...

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Neighborhood News Tijuana

Tijuana Chinese restaurants under the gun

On February 22, Van S. passed by Kim Long, a Chinese restaurant in Playas de Tijuana; the restaurant reportedly contained a rat cage and insects inside the kitchen about a week before. "It was empty, ...

February 25, 2020

Baja Neighborhood News Rosarito Tijuana

Uber still illegal in Rosarito

On February 12, American spring breakers grew concerned about a photo posted on Facebook by Jose Martinez. The photo depicts an "Uber vehicle" getting towed, with an official Playas de Rosarito vehicle bearing the name ...

February 17, 2020

Neighborhood News San Diego Beer News Tijuana

February 10, 2020

Insurgente brewery shut down again

Ian Anderson of the Reader reported in December that Tijuana’s Insurgente brewery resumed making beer in Zona Rio on December 18 after being shut down by city authorities. But now in late January, the state ...

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Eight northbound lanes added at San Ysidro crossing

Virus kills her cross-border job in San Diego

Mexico after the millenium

Praga: Italian at a Czech restaurant in Mexico

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