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Mike Madriaga
Mike is a multimedia journalist.
Mike is able to cover a subject or gathering via photography, videography and written content; and then edit the content with post-production video and photo graphics if needed.
Mike supplies content to various automotive and alternative-lifestyle publications, but considers the San Diego Reader his homebase.
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San Diego's Seaport Village slows down
Selfies replace souvenirs
Pat and her two children noted the closure of Seaport Cookie Company at Seaport Village. “I cannot believe it’s closed,” she said, “and what happened with all of these other shops?” Pat’s been visiting Seaport ...
Fiddling with Jamie Shadowlight
“For hip hop, I play more groove and rhythm-oriented lines with lots of space.”
Pacific Beach violinist Jamie Shadowlight was ecstatic when she heard electric violinist Lindsey Stirling would headline the San Diego Fair on June 27. “Stirling has made playing violin fun and inspired so many young people ...
This time Baja 500 warns the selfie takers
Last year's close calls cited in warning video
On June 1, Felipe M., a San Diego offroad photographer, drove down to Ensenada to cover the Baja 500 race for his Baja Sports fanpage. He found a remote spot and parked his vehicle close ...
Pacific Beach sends dog owners to re-education camp
“It strikes me as similar to ‘surf gangs’ who attack any outsider"
“A San Diego Police officer rolled up on an ATV and stopped us,” Steve G. said. “He told us dogs were not permitted in the park — except at certain unfathomable hours. A second officer ...
Still snowing in Baja
“The cold temperatures should’ve ended on March 21”
Some of the Baja 500 and San Pedro Martir Hillclimb racers are concerned about the “weird” weather reported in Baja. On May 23, the Mexico Secretary of Environmental Protection reported 1″ snowfall at the San ...
Bay Park – around long before Clairemont
60-foot height limit, Seisel's, Poseidon Project, Coastal Trailer Villa, trashcans destroyed
Red balloon sent up in Bay Park "I am against high density,” says Johnson. “I think it’s wrong. I'm very unhappy with the way that this is going. We don't need more people [here]. That's ...
On a VW Bus south of the border
Woodstock 2019
On March 18, Tom Summers posted a Facebook photo of himself and his 1962 Volkswagen Bus at a crossroad more than 1161 kilometers south of his Imperial Beach homebase. Summers is a 72-year-old retired marine ...
The $4.6 million Mission Beach lifeguard tower
From jetty to San Fernando Place
On May 9, the old wooden South Mission Beach Lifeguard Station was demolished. “It didn’t take too much effort to bring it to the ground,” Dana Vanos said. The circa 1974 temporary installment was located ...
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 ...
