It’s the cold night of January 28. Outside the Mexican consulate in Little Italy, a bunch of journalists, maybe half of them American, half of them Mexican, gather for a vigil. We’re paying tribute to …
February 16, 2022
Mexico
Death, and birth, of a journalist
El Chaparral migrant camp cleared
After several attempts by Tijuana’s municipal government, to evict campers at El Chaparral PedWest port of entry, it happened. 385 migrants from Central American countries and some Mexican nationals woke up at dawn on February …
February 14, 2022
Ballads from El Chaparral aimed at President Biden
During the first months of El Chaparral Migrant Camp, when most of the settlers were Central Americans recently arrived, Miguel Salas found himself surrounded by nothing but brothers and sisters, as he puts it. He …
February 7, 2022
Visit the ancient clifftop hotel named after Queen Calafia
Oh no! “Rosy! Rápido, por favor!” Rosy whips around. She makes a wild grab at the gull as he’s about fly over the cliff with my Bistro Burger. The wooden rail keeps her from launching …
The return of Heather the hummingbird
It’s a miracle! She’s back! Heather the hummingbird is back! I’m talking about the little hummingbird who whirred into town one day and started threading together a perfect egg cup nest on a dangling branch …
February 2, 2022
Remembering the Magonista Rebellion battles of 1911
“The Red Flag Now Flies Gallantly Over Tijuana!” reads the headline in Hellraisers Journal, Saturday, May 27. Of course, that’s Saturday, May 27 of 1911. Things were happening, right outside where I’m at in TJ, …
February 2, 2022
Surfers and others not scared away by Jan. 15 tsunami
On the morning of January 15, Carol Niotta and her Yorkie, Pebbles, walked out on their La Jolla home's balcony to check if the tsunami emergency alert at 7:03 am, affected the surf scene below. …
February 1, 2022
“When the world is full of butterflies and sunshine again”
“I started performing music in public during my high school years and had a successful band in Cleveland, Ohio back in the 1970s called Buckeye Biscuit,” says light classical jazz guitarist Ron Franklin. “We’re mentioned …
Long-range trips worth the $400-500
Dock Totals 1/16 – 1/22: 714 anglers aboard 37 half-day to 1.5-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 40 barracuda, 45 bluefin tuna, 12 bocaccio, 34 bonito, 136 calico bass (104 …
January 23, 2022
Tijuana journalists accuse Facebook page operator after Margarito Martinez death
On January 17, Margarito Martinez a 20-year veteran photojournalist was shot dead in front of his Tijuana home. He worked with local, national, and international outlets covering crime and police. According to the investigation run …
January 21, 2022
The sometimes unpredictable path to motherhood
Academy Award-nominated Andra Day began singing at Chula Vista’s First United Methodist Church, then studied music at the School of Creative and Performing Arts. Her 2012 cover of Jessie J’s “Mamma Knows Best” peaked at …
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January 20, 2022
Mike Schaefer uses Sarah Weddington death
Dia de los politicos Facing a big-money 2022 reelection challenge from termed-out state senator Ben Hueso, Board of Equalization member Mike Schaefer, a fellow Democrat, has taken to the Union-Tribune’s paid obituary section to tout …
January 19, 2022
Tijuana women who smuggle marijuana from San Ysidro
For years, marijuana smuggling through the border flowed south to north, but since legalization in California things are changing. Some from Tijuana have found a market in the city that prefers to buy U.S.-grown marijuana. …
January 10, 2022
Jimmy Carter: the residential president
I was reminded of my meeting with President Jimmy Carter the other day when news broke that the organization he’s intimately involved with, Habitat For Humanity, had come up with their first-ever 3-D printed house. …
January 5, 2022
The first of Tijuana's rain tragedies this season
The storm that hit Tijuana and San Diego on Monday, December 13 caused the collapse of a section of the roof of Centro Comercial Otay in Tijuana. This plaza is one of the oldest in …
December 24, 2021