Oasis Camel Dairy Open Farm, Mariachi Music and Folkloric Dance
Events March 1-March 4, 2020
Various Authors noon, Feb. 23
Tijuana
Uber still illegal in Rosarito
All the ways to get around the ban
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 ...
Insurgente brewery shut down again
Governor Bonilla's brother across the street doesn't like the noise
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 ...
How Baja's 16,000 squatters affect your Airbnb
"All homes that are foreclosed are invaded"
Skyline resident C. Valdez saw the January 12 news of the reported 16,000 abandoned homes in Baja California — with 4,000 in Tijuana — that are “invaded” and inhabited by squatters. “It’s a big problem ...
The torta at the end of the tunnel
Crossing the border to fly has its benefits
For most of my adult life, the intentional misspelling Xpress has been applied to services including oil changes and dry-cleaning — it certainly hasn’t been a word I associate with crossing international borders. But Cross ...
Friendship Garden at border bulldozed
Chanting and a moment of silence follows
On January 12 at about 10 am, a handful of San Diegans travelled across the border to meet with Tijuana locals behind the Plaza Monumental de Playas de Tijuana — The Bullring by the Sea. ...
Mexican minimum wage raised to $6.50 a day
$9.79 a day near the border
On December 16, Mexican news outlets reported of a soon to be increase in minimum wage throughout Mexico. The National Commission of Minimum Wages (Conasami) created a new Economic Wage Zone for municipalities located within ...
Tijuana’s Cerveceria Insurgente has its brewery back — for now
Baja’s esteemed craft brewer survived with help of a hush hush taproom, and beer friends
On Wednesday, December 18, Tijuana craft brewer Cerveceria Insurgente resumed making beer in its Zona Rio brewery for the first time since October 5, when municipal authorities abruptly closed the property, reportedly at the behest ...
The ways they cheat crossing the border
$20 to cut into a different lane
Police at the border have been getting involved in line disputes as line-cutting tactics have grown more sophisticated, and extortion of Americans crossing north more prevalent. “On our way back from Ensenada we came back ...
Verde y Crema resumes service, this time on La Revu
Beloved Tijuana restaurant is back with Baja-inspired favorites, old and new
A feather in Tijuana’s culinary cap since it opened in 2013, farm to table restaurant Verde y Crema closed the doors of its site near the Club Campestre de Tijuana golf course in mid-2018, offering ...
Bike stolen from Hotel Del Coronado recovered from Tijuana swap meet
BikeIndex.org finds the $6000 electric bicycle
‘I didn’t think I was ever going to see my $6000 bike again,” said Scott S. “But I did, thanks to the law enforcement agencies collaborating, and to ‘Bob’ for initially messaging me.” At 2 ...
170 cans a month for Netflix
At Tijuana's Ley supermarkets
On October 13, B. Cardenas was alerted on her phone: she had a little over two weeks to turn in her cans — to receive her free Netflix. “I saw the post on ‘Face,'” she ...
Tijuana Chewbacca fans geek out
Peter Mayhew played the hairy sidekick of Han Solo.
On May 4 about 800 Star Wars fans rendezvoused on Avenida Revolución in Tijuana to geek out and pay homage to the actor that played the original Chewbacca. "Many of us Mexican fans lament the ...
Crackdown on racing Tijuana taxis
"Here is a mission for Francisco Fraga”
A Facebook video of Tijuana taxi drivers racing each other on Sunday morning lead many Tijuanenses to call out the habits of these drivers and to demand accountability from transit police. The video shows taxis ...
Fight Club: Las Pulgas
Fleas flee concert by Grupo Codiciado
Las Pulgas is “el mejor lugar para bailar (the best place to dance),” according to their slogan. It is known as one of the bars that sell the most beer in all of Latin America; ...
Tijuana is a meth
1,800 federal police and army try to fix it
“¡Dame un peso!” frantically demands a homeless woman by aggressively knocking on car windows that stop in one of Tijuana’s busiest corners on Calle Segunda. Most drivers ignore her, shake their heads nervously, or move ...
