Baja news & stories
Estrella del Norte Mercado de Artisanas, 2nd Street, corner of Avenida Aldrete, Tijuana 011-526-685-3667 The best values are in the traditional Mexican designs, and they feel like real fountains, when they're as high as you …
Kentucky Fried Buches 670 Avenida Constitución, halfway between 1st and Baja California Streets, Tijuana Chicken necks are not appreciated on this side of the line. But where Constitución heads for the border and the street …
El Rincón del Oso Location 47, Mercado Hidalgo, Calle Victoria, Zona Rio, Tijuana When you eat goat, you want flavor! That means wild goat, if possible. The ones who have been free to roam and …
Tijuana River East of the town, west of the Rodríguez Dam Mention Tijuana River, and people think trash-strewn polluted concrete canal near the border. But there's another Tijuana River, clean and pristine, and nearer than …
Granjas Familiares "División del Norte" Colonia Las Torres, Rinconada Dos, Tijuana An hour east of downtown Tijuana, where the paved streets turn into rutted roads, and the houses run out and the mountain heaves up …
Chichi de la India Peak Between Tecate and Mexicali The south-of-the-border volcanic peak variously known as Chichi de la India and Cerro Teta de la India looks pleasingly just as it should from vantage points …
The never-aging Dick Clark, who began his career 44 years ago in Philadelphia as the host of that TV teen dance party, American Bandstand, and its forever-popular "Rate-a-Record" segment, has made millions, mostly by merchandising …
Frozen on stone for centuries, the larger-than-life cave paintings of humans and animals in Baja's Sierra de San Francisco hover over the thousand or more awe-struck visitors who come to see them in a typical …
Time was when a tourist driving through Tijuana might have thought this a metropolis of auto-upholstery shops. To a visitor on foot, the ubiquity of curio stores suggested the city was about purses and blankets. …
Silvia Labastida is nervous. Two thousand of Tijuana's poorest children surround her, cheering the mayor of Tijuana. For three months she has helped organize this day. She holds on to a young girl in a …
Hey, Matt: I keep hearing what I think is a commercial in a foreign language on several of the local radio stations. It goes something like this. "Icky, socky, ramey, afamey, Baja California, Mexico." What …
The brown-robed monk leads the way down into the crypt. "In 1791 the Mission of Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded by Dominican friars, south of Ensenada. Along with the mission, they brought grape vines...." …
The man who decided to drug-test all the cops in Tijuana is satisfied. Marco Antonio González Arenas says the front-page color photos of police officers lining up at a table loaded with their urine samples …
Don Manuel lives where the border fence ends, in the mountains east of Tijuana. He's heard about the murder of the police chief, about the execution of the lawyer who represented the man allegedly behind …