Tijuana rollerskating rink

Tecate, Mexico: My favorite place on earth

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Tijuana architecture tour

Occupy Tijuana

Tijuana joins the Occupy Wall Street ranks with a sit-in of their own. Click here for more info.

Tijuana Tequila Expo 2011

The annual Tijuana Tequila Festival is happening Oct. 13 through Oct. 16 from 1 p.m. to midnight on Revolucion and Seventh in Downtown TJ. It’s $70 pesos or about $7.

Follow this great new Tijuana blog

Here’s a post from At the Edges, a fantastic blog by a freelance writer and educator living in Tijuana:

I’m back, after almost a week in San Diego!  Here’s a photo of our little yard puppy Oso, a real fighter. He used to look like a fluffy black bear, but the poor little guy has suffered from mange and ticks, and two ruthless attacks by older more aggressive dogs that nearly killed him. He’s got more energy this week, and goes pee all over the ground in inappropriate places just like a normal dog.

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Tijuana’s Madame Ur y Sus Hombres featured on MTV IGGY

Watch Madame Ur y Sus Hombres live performance of “Venada” or catch an interview with her daytime counterpart, Azzul Monraz, and learn about how Madame Ur was created.

Tijuana Beer Fest 2011

The TJ Beer Fest is back, this time it’s happening from noon to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, July 15-16, in downtown Tijuana. Move over Tecate. Craft beer is on the rise. Meet Mexican brewers who are revolutionizing the palates of the people.

Art in Tijuana maquiladoras

Guadalupe Rivemar Valle is a pragmatist. As director of Tijuana’s Sala Anguiano for the last three-and-a-half years, she’s seen how few people find time to stop by the downtown gallery to see the drawings, paintings and etchings of artist Raúl Anguiano. For Rivemar, it posed a problem, one that could easily be solved by taking the art directly to the people instead.

“Anguiano was part of the Mexican muralist movement,” Rivemar said as she navigated her way through the busy streets of Tijuana in her small, shiny red car. “Muralists have this tradition of taking the art to the people and to the streets. They believe that art doesn’t have to be seen in a gallery; it needs to be seen in the city.”

“I would die just sitting in the gallery,” Rivemar confessed. “I would die if I stayed inside of my gallery waiting for the people to come.”

Last year, Rivemar packed up some of the 62 pieces in the gallery’s collection and hit the road. She toured Anguiano’s work through Tijuana’s universities and even staged one exhibition in the lobby of Agua Caliente Racetrack. More people were seeing the art, but not enough. She was missing one huge and critical sector of the city’s population—Tijuana’s thousands of factory workers.

The idea to tour a fine-art exhibition through the maquiladoras, or manufacturing plants, across Tijuana came to Rivemar during last year’s Tijuana Innovadora conference. The event, which set out to introduce a quickly changing city to the rest of the world, brought bigwigs like Al Gore, the founders of Twitter and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón together with leaders from the Asociación de Industria Maquiladora (AIM) and other movers and shakers in Tijuana.

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Rosarito Art Fest

Rosarito Art Fest is happening May 28-29 on Boulevard Benito Juarez Sur in the Hotel Zone of Rosarito from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Free.

110 artists involved in this amazing exposition including Juan Angel Castillo, Miguel Nájera, Ruth Hernandez, Franco Mendez Calvillo, Angel ValRa, Carlos Coronado, Manuel Varrona, Francisco Chávez Corrujedo, Robert Kidd, Scott Kennedy, etc. Click here to see more!.

There will also be work by others - Alfredo Villafaña, David Silvah, Alfonso Arambula, Esau Andrade, Becris, Ugi, Francisco Cabello, Jorge Luna - whose work has become ‘collectible’ by many art patrons. Watch the Rosarito Art Fest Video

The festival will also include music, folk dance from different countries, opera, and some crowd pulling popular musical events like Madame Ur, Agustín Sánchez & Gabriela Bojórquez, Roberto Salomón, TJ Coctail, Gerardo Pablo, Latin Sonamong others… Click here to see more participants

In addition, there will be a farmer’s market with organic products, along with crafts and jewelry, food, booths representing tourism activities and attractions.