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May 10, 2012
Taco Kokopelli: Next Wave Chef Takes to the Streets in Tijuana
In order for a parrilla to continue to burn, there must be some fresh mesquite added to ensure its vibrancy. And it's an apt metaphor when considering the current Baja cuisine renaissance. The much-celebrated trend has been spread by just a handful of chefs from Tijuana to Cabo, and it's been the Cu ... More >>
Columns
May 3, 2012
Is Tijuana Safe?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And can dark-skinned Mexicans call themselves 'Spanish'?
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Winning By a Neck at Kentucky Fried Buches
The first time I ever saw buches--perhaps more properly known as pescuezos de pollo--was at the late, lamented Breed Street vendor fair in Boyle Heights, where the scent of frying chicken competed for olfactory primacy against enchiladas, pambazos, churros, and pit-roasted meat. I wasn't paying atte ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Chucheman Hernandez: Tijuana's Underground Food-Video Star
Unless you subscribe to the Latino package on Dish Network--I do!--you may not have noticed that Mexico now has its own food network: Utilisima. The global foodist fever has caught on south of the border, introducing reality-based food programming, and the concept of chef as celebrity. It was all ve ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Tijuana's El Rincon del Oso: The Best Gorditas on Earth
To kick off our Tijuana Sí! column, I'm going way back in time to an article I did in 2003 about my all-time favorite restaurant: El Rincón del Oso in Tijuana's Mercado Hidalgo. A couple of things have changed in the market (the lack of gabachos, for one, in the past couple of years, although that ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2012
Announcing the Launch of "Tijuana Sí!" Our New Column Focusing on Baja California's Food Scene!
As someone who has known the great side of Tijuana all his life--the mercados, the mariscos, the street vendors, the todo--it's given me great pleasure to see that the world is finally realizing what a gastronomic wonderworld Baja California is, from the Baja Med chefs to San Felipe, from Kentucky F ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2012
Lágrimas Negras from Ramuri Cerveza Artesanal, Our Drink of the Week
All right, beer hipsters, this is it. Anyone can get great beer in Orange County and San Diego, but the best-kept secret is something you'll have to head south for--south past that weird traffic light that says "México". The Mexican beer we get up here in the States is like having sex in a boat--f ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Corazon de Tierra: Baja Med from the Ground up in Mexican Wine Country
An hour south of Tijuana, somewhere along Ensenada's Ruta del Vino--the road through Baja's wine-rich Valle de Guadalupe--two Americanos are searching for a sign. Not the eagle-on-the-cactus-with-a-serpent-in-its-mouth kinda sign, but one that, nevertheless, we hope will lead us to some sort o ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
A Tijuana Virgin On His First Visit: No Shootings, No Narcos, Amazing Food Galore
I didn't get shot. Not once, not at all. As silly as that sounds, after all of the travel warnings I've read and horror stories I've been told, a tiny part of me kinda thought the moment I arrived in Tijuana I would be stopped by the cartels and taken out. I admit I'm not much of a traveler, but ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
Tostilocos Gets Their Day in the National Sun
For seemingly ever, tostilocos have governed the diet of Mexis in Orange County yet proven almost impossible to cross over to gabachos--even those of the hipster set. Not sure why: the concoction of chips topped with fruits, peanuts, onions, salsa--really, whatever the hell you want--is like Frit ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Is a Road Trip From OC to Mexico Safe?
Flaccid_Leper wants to know. The Canadian transplant, now living in Costa Mesa, wants to know, and he has posted the following questions at Reddit.com: Is it safe to drive in Mexico? Any idea of good party places somewhat close to the border that are also tourist friendly and relatively safe ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Mexico As Imagined By the Washington Post
Flickr user yarhargoatIt gets fatiguing reading the same articles on travel to Mexico that parrot the U.S. State Department over and over again. Precious few of those people have ever actually been to the places they're writing about, but they turn the fear dial up to 11, the result being that Am ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Recipe of the Week: Fun With Empanadas
Dave LiebermanLast week, I talked about how easy it was to make panisses, and the photo (taken with my old iPhone, yeah, yeah, haters gonna hate) had some empanadas in the background. Empanadas are, with about $10 worth of equipment you might not already own, the easiest appetizer to make.
Music
October 13, 2011
Get Mobbed Up With Mafia Rusa
[Locals Only] Spanish-language hardcore ska: What could be more Orange County?
Blogs
September 22, 2011
Baja Culinary Fest to Take Place Oct. 5-9
A huge column of smoke rises from a charcoal grill set into a counter; the air fills with the scent of beef grilling and the sound of fat spattering onto the fire below. It takes just a minute or two, and I'm fascinated. My rapt gaze is lost on the taquero, for whom this is not new. He hacks the ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2011
Rubio's Tries--and Fails--to Reproduce the Taco Salceado
My wife wandered over to the table we were holding last week at the Taste of Anaheim. "You've got to hear what this taco is," she said. "Garlic herb shrimp, toasted cheese, habanero citrus salsa, crisp bacon, chipotle picante sauce, avocado, cilantro, onion and cotija.""What a hot mess," I replie ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
This Week in Food: Luxe Loncheras, More Luxe Loncheras, and Even More Luxe Loncheras!
Photo by the Elmo MonsterOur requisite mention of Piaggio for the week!We went luxe lonchera crazy this week, and even crazier in other departments. The bedlam after the jump!
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January 27, 2011
Julieta Venegas
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Blogs
December 16, 2010
UPDATED: Pee Wee's Famous Hot Dogs and Hamburgers Rips Off Picture of its "Mexican Hot Dog" from Legendary Tucson Chain El Güero Canelo
Updated, with a comment from Pee Wee's and the Tucson Weekly at the bottom...I've been hearing good things about Pee Wee's Famous Hot Dogs and Hamburgers in Surf City, but had to roll my eyes when the Orange County Register announced this morning they were introducing "real Mexican hot dogs" to i ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Teens Smoke More Weed, Drink Less, Study Says
Flickr user twodollaAccording to a recent study by the University of Michigan and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, pot use is increasing among American teenagers, while drinking is on the wane. This is apparently bad news, at least according to a group calling itself the Community Anti-Drug ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Five Current Food Trends That Need to Die in 2011
Dave earlier this week gave us a list of food trends that most of us can agree reached their innovative end in 2010, if not earlier; this list is different. The following trends are still raging, will probably rage throughout the coming year--but they need to die for the reasons I'll explain. The vi ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Two Men Injured When Shot Outside Church PartyComment by CADRE77: Go figure, another shooting in little mexico.Comment by TOMNORANGE: Let's just put a fence around Santa Ana. They're shooting each other at a CHURCH!Penal Colony, Channel IslandsComment by SCAFI53: Looks like Tijuana !!!! ... More >>
News
November 18, 2010
Shock the Junkie
A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?
Blogs
November 5, 2010
Some Music to Listen to While the Loretta Sanchez-Van Tran Race Gets Decided
Most any rational commentator has called the 47th Congressional District race for incumbent Loretta Sanchez, but hold on to your Gretsky, Lo-Lo! The Orange County Registrar of Voters say they still need to go through about 30,000 more votes in the district, and betcha bánh mìs to tortas that ch ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
Four Ways to Make Mickey Mouse More Mexican
The title says it all...Mickey Mouse was at SanTana's Mexican Independence Day Festival yesterday, wearing a costume of imperceptible ethnicity and a sarape. That's the best you can do, Disney, to Mexicanize the Mouse? Even Minnie wore a baile folkórico dress, for chrissakes.Disney should've con ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Report: Illegal Population to Soar if Birthright Citizenship RepealedComment by WRESTLER76: So basically anyone that came over with Christopher Columbus and after him are illegals and none of there descendents have a right to be here, only native americans ... so i agree, lets start wit ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
This Week in Food
Christopher VictorioYou get what your ask for. Deep fried butter, tasty Tijuana treats and more of what you missed this week in Stick a Fork In It after the jump!
Blogs
July 21, 2010
Eating Tijuana, Part Two
Dave LiebermanI wanted to see whether the news reports were true; I missed Baja and the laid-back lifestyle it represents. When Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA offered a quick one-day tour, I jumped at the chance to see whether it was time to go back.I'm happy to report that it is. No soldiers ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2010
Eating Tijuana, Part One
Dave Lieberman"You're insane." "You're going to die, you know." "Are you stupid?" "Can I have your car?" Such were the reactions I got when I mentioned that I would be taking part in a culinary tour of Tijuana given by Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA: total certainty that I would never ma ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Grand Jury Says OCTA Fails Low-Income Bus RidersComment by rufus1: Transportation welfare...OCTA is the original Tijuana Taxi Service...What a waste.
Music
April 29, 2010
NarcoTunes
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this is your Mexican regional music on drugs
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Huntington Beach Fires Police Officer Accused of Rapes, AssaultsComment by surf714: I admire the HBPD. They've kept our city safe for many years. HB used to rank either #1 or #2 in the nation as the safest city (over 100,000). Of course, then parts of it started to look like Tijuana, a ... More >>
Columns
June 18, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Ugly Gabacho
Headline: Huntington Beach Fires Police Officer Accused of Rapes, AssaultsComment by surf714: I admire the HBPD. They've kept our city safe for many years. HB used to rank either #1 or #2 in the nation as the safest city (over 100,000). Of course, then parts of it started to look like Tijuana, a ... More >>
Music
April 30, 2009
Whipped Whiteys and Other Delights: Seven Gabacho-Hating Mexican Songs
Headline: Huntington Beach Fires Police Officer Accused of Rapes, AssaultsComment by surf714: I admire the HBPD. They've kept our city safe for many years. HB used to rank either #1 or #2 in the nation as the safest city (over 100,000). Of course, then parts of it started to look like Tijuana, a ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2009
It's a Quick Read Two-Two
Orange County Register: The Catch restaurant and sports bar that had been in the shadow of Angel Stadium for 32 years before closing in February 2008 will reopen even closer to the Big A. . . . While noting highway deaths dropped nearly 10 percent locally and nationwide, the Reg unveils a map s ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2009
Hey, Federales: Don't Forget the Pedo-Priest Protectors from the Diocese of Orange!
When I heard late that the United States Attorney's office is investigating Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony for his role in covering up the rapes committed by his priest, I attributed it to a hallucination brought on by last night's episode of Lost. But here's the Los Angeles Times ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2008
The Prospector Accepting Toy Donations
Long Beach's The Prospector--who are playing host to Tijuana Knife Fight, Chotto Ghetto and Killer Dreamer tomorrow--are accepting donations of new (new, not that broken Teddy Ruxpin you've been hanging on to for some reason) toys on behalf of local children's shelters.So, if you're checking o ... More >>
Columns
August 28, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] A Gabacho In Front of a Mexican Tourist Trap Deserves the Reconquista His Wallet Gets
Long Beach's The Prospector--who are playing host to Tijuana Knife Fight, Chotto Ghetto and Killer Dreamer tomorrow--are accepting donations of new (new, not that broken Teddy Ruxpin you've been hanging on to for some reason) toys on behalf of local children's shelters.So, if you're checking o ... More >>
Columns
August 7, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] A Short History of Comics In Mexico
Long Beach's The Prospector--who are playing host to Tijuana Knife Fight, Chotto Ghetto and Killer Dreamer tomorrow--are accepting donations of new (new, not that broken Teddy Ruxpin you've been hanging on to for some reason) toys on behalf of local children's shelters.So, if you're checking o ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2007
Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Dirty Cop Sting
Catch a crooked cop: Nope. Sorry. Not here in the USA. No way. But in Mexico, authorities want a no corruption zone for the the five-mile road from the Tijuana border south to the beach. Officials are “installing cameras to catch extortion attempts, publicizing that people can pay tickets with cr ... More >>
News
December 15, 2005
King of the County Pedophiles
The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos
Food
September 22, 2005
Great Food Moments in Weekly History
The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos
Music
August 18, 2005
Do el Mash-up
Latin alternative: The place for effortless musical miscegenation
Music
April 28, 2005
!A Todos Bailar el Cover!
Seven terrible Mexican remakes of American songs
Food
November 18, 2004
Super Pollo
Seven terrible Mexican remakes of American songs
Culture
August 26, 2004
California Dreaming Gone Seriously Sour
Kem Nunn on environmental apocalypse, surfing subcultures and his new novel, Tijuana Straits
Features
February 5, 2004
Show and Tell
Condom Revolution blows (our minds)
Features
September 5, 2002
Confessions of a Border-Jumping Drug Smuggler
Condom Revolution blows (our minds)
Music
March 22, 2001
All Sales Vinyl!
Condom Revolution blows (our minds)
Music
December 21, 2000
Ill Communicado
Manu Chao rocks the universal barrio
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