Female City College student punches attacker. He runs away.
There's an app for that
Mike Madriaga 12:40 p.m., May 25
Tijuana
T.J. General Hospital running out of chemotherapy drugs for children
"Their mothers are worried."
Fifty-six pediatric cancer patients being treated at Tijuana’s General Hospital are in danger of relapse and death because the state-funded facility is running out of chemotherapy drugs. “Up to now no child has lost treatment, ...
Paradox Effects — serious gear for those who play
"That's our robot," built from a streetlight, a heater, old speakers, and hoses
The workshop of Paradox Effects looks a lot like what you might picture when you imagine “Tijuana do-it-yourself boutique guitar pedals.” The low-ceiling warehouse overlooks TJ’s affluent Hipódromo neighborhood from the lower-class residential hillside of ...
Tijuana orders cancellation of concert by Miguel Comando at Las Pulgas nightclub
Singer of narcocorridos threatened by message on corpse.
Tijuana authorities abruptly ordered the cancellation of a concert by Miguel Comando, a singer of narcocorridos, that had been scheduled for the night of April 28 at the Las Pulgas nightclub on Avenida Revolución. Narcocorridos ...
Tijuana’s new public bus system – not great once you leave downtown
Does current mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum want it to fail?
Shattered glass. Sandstone rocks. Soiled clothing. Human feces. Exposed electrical cables hanging from ceilings. Trash strewn along the floor. These are generally not the things one imagines when newly built ‘modern transportation’ comes to mind. ...
Panic at the Coca-Cola plant
Workers evacuated at Tijuana industrial park after gas leak
More than a thousand workers at a Tijuana industrial park had to be evacuated around 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, after a strong odor of gas in the area created panic among employees. El ...
Gunshots at Chip's Bar
Tijuana’s Calle Sexta party street has turned to narco violence
“I almost had a heart attack. I just witnessed gunshots at [Bar] Chip's,” my friend Amayrani posted on Facebook at around 1 am after the incident. I caught up with Amayrani the day after the ...
Baseball is different in Tijuana
“We know baseball games are too long, so we are there to help make the game more fun.”
Every pitch is a party at a Toros de Tijuana baseball game. At least that’s the atmosphere the team is trying to create. The Toros compete in Liga Mexicana de Beisbol, an international AAA affiliate ...
47,340 oxycodone tablets seized at border
American from TJ caught with opiates worth $1.42 million
Adriana Morfin-Paniagua, an American citizen living in Tijuana, was arrested yesterday (March 8) and charged with importing 47,340 tablets of oxycodone, an opioid, worth at least $1.42 million. They have an illegal street value of ...
Sip pulque, wait for wings to sprout from back
They say it’s the drink of the gods.
Long before Tecate roja and caguamas of Indio dominated Mexican bartops, Aztec priests, warriors, and sacrificial victims sipped a milky agave wine called pulque. Fabled among its acolytes as a wellspring of fertility and divine ...
Goat Canyon spills...black tea?
"Not like last month when it came through red."
Border Patrol agents were surprised Wednesday morning (March 1) to see black water pouring through the grates over a drainage tube at the southeast edge of Goat Canyon. "It was like really black tea, literally ...
Because We Love You Fest fertilizes TJ’s subterranean scene
Friends from both Californias get together for 18 hours
Experimental music rarely goes as planned. Often, that’s the point. Sometimes, nothing happens at all. Just ask John Cage. One thing’s for sure: it’s a gamble. It’s downright audacious first-date material. Most people find it ...
Pleasant ride on Tijuana's big-boy bus system
“Que tengan buen día!” the female driver shouted.
After watching police arrest some minor drug offenders from inside the huge modern bus terminal in the Zone Norte, I headed toward a bus in Tijuana’s new rapid transit system, named SITT (Sistema Integral de ...
Tijuana River flushed hard
Valley weathers storm without heavy flooding
The beach north of the Tijuana River was littered with broken trees this weekend (February 18–19), a result of an enormous flow of rainwater and sewage from Tijuana hitting some of the 140,000 trees killed ...
Tip of Tijuana's garbage iceberg
Mayor takes hit for violence spike, gas jump, uneven trash pick-up
“It’s been since January that the trash hasn’t been picked up,” says Geovanni Zamudio, a 35-year-old high school teacher in Tijuana. “Garbage collectors usually come on Wednesdays where I live in Porticos de la Mesa, ...
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 ...
