Dante Loaiza, late of Agua Dulce and currently of Maracuya, knows both sides of the border, and he allows that weirdness can break out on either side. “In Tijuana, we had one [gig] where some …
September 15, 2022
Mexico
Dante Loaiza’s Maracuya: one of the largest working bands in show business
Author Richard Rodriguez crosses turnstiles into Tijuana
Taken together as one, Tijuana and San Diego form the most fascinating city in the New World My first trip across: the late 1950s. We were on our way to visit relatives in Ensenada. We …
September 11, 2022
Burning buses shut down Tijuana
Last Friday, Tijuana’s citizens experienced something that has never happened before in the city. Cartel violence has become normalized in the last few decades, but the town was in shock when armed groups burned at …
August 23, 2022
World War II Tijuana
The Loud Adios I wrote a story about her, called it ‘The Blue Fox.” and decided not to give it to the singles’ magazine. The publisher probably would’ve turned it down. It wasn’t dirty enough …
August 20, 2022
The sordid Rosarito trailer park
Brief Eden We didn’t see too much of the man in trailer number eight, who was supposed to be a Federale, except for the times when he would step out onto his wooden deck and …
August 15, 2022
The Sentri pass, crossing at Otay, the annoying seagulls
In Tijuana, you ride the rollercoaster that is the city and then you wait in line to leave. The journey out of one of the most chaotic cities in the world culminates in an equally …
August 3, 2022
Once again, Tijuana runs out of water
The National Water Commission declared a state of emergency due to a drought that has hurt five states in Mexico. Baja California is on the list. One month ago an outage in the El Carrizo …
August 1, 2022
Catch halibut with dead-sticking or bounce-ball technique
Dock Totals 7/10 – 7/16: 4424 anglers aboard 189 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 397 barracuda, 793 bluefin tuna (to 210 pounds), 1 blue perch, 4 bocaccio, …
July 17, 2022
Colima’s Mexican Restaurant: beef, chicken, or... iguana?
Where is everybody? This was last Tuesday, in Oceanside. I was looking for food. Don’t look for food on Tuesday afternoons. So many places are closed. Specially last Tuesday, the day the whole nation fell …
July 14, 2022
Surf perch bonanza in San Quintin
Dock Totals 7/3 – 7/9: 3,950 anglers aboard 162 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 961 barracuda, 83 bluefin tuna (to 70 pounds), 676 bonito, 2,625 calico bass, …
July 10, 2022
Caesarian gone wrong in Mexicali
A newborn child got injured after a C-section surgery was performed during a power outage at Clinica de Especialidades Internacional in Mexicali, Baja California’s capital city. Doctors in charge of the procedure decided to continue …
July 4, 2022
Which San Diego newspaperman did John Glenn get to spike the astronaut sex story?
On September 19,1959, six of America’s first spacemen settled in at the Kona Kai Club on San Diego’s palm-bedecked Shelter Island for a week designed to feature the Atlas rocket that would blast their Mercury …
June 29, 2022
Skateboarders annoy, inspire downtown San Diego
At about 2 pm on June 21, Amanda Vazquez Defran heard a peculiar noise below her Banker's Hill home balcony. "I work from home, so I get a front row seat to a lot of …
June 28, 2022
Bitten by rattler deep in Baja mountains
Snakebite Bob recalls, “I was getting pretty good mouthfuls of blood for a while, then everything seemed to coagulate.” Less than three minutes had elapsed since the time of the bite. He substituted the waist …
June 19, 2022
Sarah Jacobs and her friend Ammar Campa-Najjar get Jacobs money
Billionaires served One of San Diego’s most politically influential couples has had a notable run of late, thanks to a campaign contribution of nearly $100,000 from billionaire Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan, …
June 15, 2022