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Matt Potter 6 a.m., June 23
Tijuana
Rock en español? Naw, Rock en ingles.
"I was really inspired by Tijuana No!" says Latinized Hawk Auburn guitarman
When XETV Channel 6 went off the air last month, guitarist Raul Gonzales was one of some 60 employees who lost their jobs; he was a programming engineer in the station’s master control studio in ...
Tijuana priest hospitalized after attack by thief
Escaped knifing, stuck with a screwdriver instead
A Catholic priest was reported to be in stable condition at a Tijuana hospital on Friday, June 9, following surgery after he was stabbed with a screwdriver by a thief trying to rob his church. ...
Border Patrol on Tijuana River gains respect from enviros
Agents catch stench first
When newly assigned U.S. Border Patrol agents arrive at the Imperial Beach Station, one of the first things they are told: Don’t go in the Tijuana River. You don’t have to ever enter the water ...
Messages sent on blankets
600 dead in TJ so far, Sinaloa cartel blamed
When blankets are inscribed with messages and flung over bridges in Tijuana, they usually boast a narco-warning directed at rival cartels or authorities. Such narcomantas, as they’re called in spanish, are appearing increasingly throughout Tijuana. ...
May 24 Tijuana sewage, on top of Feb. dump, spurs coalition
Border patrol agents join Wildcoast and Surfrider
Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina and Councilman Mark West are out to change how the federal government deals with sewage that comes into the the city from Mexico. They’ve gained an unexpected partner: the union ...
It doesn’t look like a Catholic Church
Tijuana’s archbishop orders re-design of new cathedral
Tijuana’s new archbishop has rejected the design of a new cathedral that has been under construction since 2006. In an undated press release posted on the new cathedral’s website, Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón said, among ...
Uber in Tijuana is the Wild West
Cash payment option means drivers need to track each other
“My shift ends in about an hour. I stop work at 10 pm,” said Daniel my Uber driver in Tijuana. “It’s not drunks that concern me, it's the crime.” I’m a frequent Uber client and ...
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 ...
