The house of death in Tijuana is the color of dusty bubble gum. Just off the Plaza Club de Leones, with its cathedral-like tower, where Revolucion curves away to the north, SEMEFO, the one-story coroner's …
May 20, 1993
News & Stories
Tijuana coroner's patients cut and sawed open
Analog cheese on pizza — what next?
Dear Manhew Alice: I keep hearing rumors that the cheese on pizzas these days is imitation. This rumor is very disturbing. If it is true, what is the pale yellow glop that we are eating? …
May 20, 1993
The origin of golf links
Yo, Man hew: A golfing bud of mine and I have had this ongoing discussion about the origin of the term "links. ” I say a golf course is called that because all the holes …
May 20, 1993
Tijuanan columnist Hector Felix Miranda's murder stirs PEN West dust-up
Five years have passed since two fatal shotgun rounds were fired through the windshield of Hector Felix Miranda’s blue Ford LTD on a subdued residential street in Tijuana. As a caustic and popular columnist for …
May 20, 1993
Vietnam protester John Krich visits Vietnam and thinks about it
Tourism is invasion by other means. It’s a battle for leisure-time territory fought between armies in Hawaiian flowered shirts and standard bellhop issue. Where no tour package has yet feared to tread and every new …
May 20, 1993