Few have captured Tijuana's cool new vivacity like filmmaker Aaron Soto.
November 14, 2012
Blog Entries
- Dead but a saint
- Baja & Border News Translations: Baja California Manufacturing Grows 6.9%; Firefighters Still Await Relocation
- Baja & Border News Translations: Students Participate in Sexuality and Addictions Forum; 450 Million Pesos Not Delivered to State
- Baja & Border News Translations: Molestation in Tijuana and Baja California;Violence Against Women Conference
- Jock itch
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- Jazz Live : featuring Jaime Valle
- All My Friends update: Upsilon Acrux, Beaters, Tron added
- Good news for California State University system
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- Theta Chi plans a new frat house
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- Strong Beer: We Have A Winner…
- Mortgage disinterest
- Wind Energy: The World's Best Source Of Alternative Energy
- Style profile: Golden Hill
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- A further look at the trailer for 21 & Over
- Big seizures
- Ballroom backs out
- Amazing Grace and the Maestro
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- A closer look at the trailer for 21 & Over
- Beard power
- Your Week: November 15-21
- SDSU destroys SD Christian
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- Love Song of the Late Blooming Fools
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- Cleaning up the forest
- Mission: Possible?
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- One more juice bar
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- Foreclosure fees
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- Back to the beer old days
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- Festival Norte Sonoro: international DJs remix Tijuana
News & Stories
Tijuana artists, musicians, filmmakers –"destined to be ignored by our own country"
La Mesa to Vote on Pot Shops; Council Reviews Crime Stats
A ballot item approved in a 4-1 vote at the November 13 La Mesa City Council meeting means voters will decide in November 2014 whether medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in the city. Mayor …
November 14, 2012
Drill, Baby, Drill in Hillcrest
Patrons at the Uptown shopping center were treated to several hours of deafening noise today, November 14, as Boart Longyear Drilling Services drilled 147 feet below the surface of the parking lot. Workers on the …
November 14, 2012
Sweetwater Schools Forum Makes Policy Clear as Mud
Concerned Sweetwater Union High School District parents and residents lined up to ask superintendent Ed Brand questions at a November 8 meeting. They wanted an accounting of the money they have paid into the 17 …
November 14, 2012
Spider invasion, peculiar freeway foam, scars and tats forever
Heymatt:I’ve been living in my house in University Heights for 65 years and I’ve never had a spider problem like this one. These little buggers are festooning the roof tiles like Christmas tinsel. They’re on …
November 14, 2012
Portobello Mushroom Flatbread
Recipe by Cliff Pleau, culinary director, Seasons 52 My earliest memory of wanting to be a chef was when I was about four years old. I was still sucking my thumb and my dad was …
November 14, 2012
In Ida's time
Chris lifts up Guinness number 66. “I’m aiming for 100,” he says. “You get five free pints for every 100 pints you drink, and your name on that ‘Guinness Century Club’ plaque.” He indicates a …
November 14, 2012
Where to go for Thanksgiving turkey
"Don’t cook for Thanksgiving this year,” said Patrick’s mother. “You know what?” I answered. “I’m not going to fight you on that. It’s been a long year.” “So, where should we go? Our treat.” I …
November 14, 2012
Whaling Bar & Grill's Sazerac
According to the Whaling Bar & Grill’s bar manager Scotty Moises, the establishment took its name when it opened in the early 1950s from the mural that hangs over the bar, The Whale’s Last Stand. …
November 14, 2012
Commune to quit
San Diego club-goers who smoke cigarettes take part in quit groups started by Rescue Social Change Group, funded through a grant from the University of California, San Francisco.
November 14, 2012
No air guitar!
Interview with Steve Weinberger, author of the book No Air Guitar Allowed.
November 14, 2012
Time to jam
Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos did his last Wednesday-night gig at El Camino bar/restaurant on October 31.
November 14, 2012
Boz Scaggs
The song that transformed Boz Scaggs’s career is simple to the point of monotony. Except for the guitar break, there are two chords: an Em9 that resolves into a jazzy A13 over and over and …
November 14, 2012
Dripping Springs Trail
This Agua Tibia Wilderness hike has dramatic vistas and a variety of vegetation types.
November 14, 2012
Future of the Left plots against common sense
A couple of weeks before the election, I looked up a Future of the Left video online, but before I could see it I had to sit through a campaign ad for Rep. Michele Bachmann. …
November 14, 2012
Blood money
Thom Beebe, owner of Guitar and Bass Land/Skin City Drums in El Cajon won’t deal in used musical equipment anymore due to an increase in secondhand/pawnshop permit fees.
November 14, 2012
NFL Gambling Edition
New Jersey moves to legalize betting on football. Will they be stopped?
November 14, 2012
Imperial Beach Access to Border Park Closed After Rains
Just a month after the U.S. Border Patrol promised better public access to Monument Mesa in the historic Border Field State Park, the gates to the mile-and-a-half-long road from the park entrance to the mesa …
November 14, 2012
Guilt Bot
I don’t usually listen to voicemail left by robots, but this one was from my health-insurance company, so I stayed on the line long enough to jot down the 800 number I was instructed to …
November 14, 2012
What am I doing here?
Meet Buddy, an East Coast transplant, cultural chameleon, and private Peace Corpsman who knows the joy of being alive.
November 14, 2012
Tierrasanta Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Membership: 525 Pastor: Gary McCary Age: 60 Born: Needles, CA Formation: La Sierra University, Riverside, CA; Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI Years Ordained: 33 San Diego Reader: What is your favorite subject on which to …
November 14, 2012
Big bay secrets
The bayside Point Loma mansion lavishly remodeled by Mavourneen O’Connor, the secretive twin sister of onetime San Diego mayor Maureen O’Connor, is up for sale for a cool $6,825,000. “195 feet of prestigious water frontage …
November 14, 2012
Escondido rapist Jeremy Ryan Stutzman said he hated it when his victims cried
When he was 22 years old, Jeremy Ryan Stutzman attacked a young Escondido housewife in her apartment. He bound and gagged her and forced her to dress in lingerie that he provided. His sexual assault …
November 14, 2012
Art by the numbers
Lame-duck San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders has backed off plans to expand the City’s controversial red-light camera enforcement program, leaving that decision to mayor-elect Bob Filner, according to a recent report in U-T San Diego. …
November 14, 2012
Hollyhocks
Three days after my mother died, her hollyhocks tumbled down under their own weight. My father disappeared. I had eaten the last of her meatloaf wrapped in wax paper. She had waved me out of …
November 14, 2012