PhotosThe derivative curse
Composers who try to avoid it are to doomed to be it
Garrett Harris 5 p.m., July 25
Bob McPhail
McPhail was a reporter for the Oceanside Blade before coming to work for the Reader in the 1980s.
Articles by Bob McPhail
Bold assault at Tijuana office-supply store
Employees of Office Depot tied up by armed robbers
A group of armed, hooded thieves forced their way into an Office Depot in Tijuana shortly before midnight on July 3, tied up store employees with plastic bands, and stole cash, cellular phones, computers, and ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tijuana makes the list of least-friendly cities
"It still suffers from a long-held reputation of being ‘dirty’ and ‘unsafe.’"
According to the August 15 edition of Condé Nast Traveler, only Newark, New Jersey, rates as less friendly than Tijuana in its annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey. Here’s what the magazine had to say about ...
Where to go for Tijuana AIDS
Anonymous sex a factor in increased infection rate
At least 30 new cases of HIV infection are reported each month in Baja California, and the leader of a prominent AIDS organization says he knows what's behind the alarming statistic, particularly in Tijuana. Steam ...
Baja bullfighting ban back-burnered
Legislature decides not to consider anti-cruelty bill
Opponents of bullfighting in Baja California waited for hours on Thursday, April 7, expecting the state legislature to debate and vote on a proposed law that would have outlawed the bloody spectacle, but at the ...
