Baja California

Ask a Mexican on Food Trucks and The Best Mexican Food

What's the Most Expensive Ingredient You've Used?

Welcome to Chow Bella's Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you'd like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. Miss a question? Go here.It's no secret that top-notch chefs and restauran ... More >>

Que Se Vende: Impacto Musical Top Selling Albums of the Week

​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. Shopping at Spanish language record shops is a whole lot different than a regular trip to your local Zia Record Exchange. Di ... More >>

Drought Eases in Arizona; Phoenix Area Now "Moderate"

Image: U.S. Drought MonitorArizona's drought is actually easing -- for the western part of the state.​ After the storm like the one the Valley had last night and all the wildfires, you'd think Arizona was one giant dust bowl.You'd be wrong.Despite "exceptional," bone-dry conditions in the sout ... More >>

Penis Tequila: Liquid Courage for ex-Mayor of Tijuana Held on Gun Charges

scorpionmezcal.comIf penis tequila isn't your thing, there's always scorpions.​What do you call tequila made with three penises, scorpion poison and antlers if you're an alleged Mexican mafioso? Breakfast. Jorge Hank Rhon is a former mayor of Tijuana who ran for the governorship of Baja Californ ... More >>

Fear Is Killing Tourism in Rocky Point, Mexico, Though Tourists Are Relatively Safe There -- For Now

scorpionmezcal.comIf penis tequila isn't your thing, there's always scorpions.​What do you call tequila made with three penises, scorpion poison and antlers if you're an alleged Mexican mafioso? Breakfast. Jorge Hank Rhon is a former mayor of Tijuana who ran for the governorship of Baja Californ ... More >>

Ana Borrajo of Sapna Cafe, Part Two

​Yesterday we spoke with Ana about the challenges of navigating a restaurant through a tight economy. Today we'll pick up the conversation and get to know a little bit more about Ana and what she does when she's not in the kitchen at Sapna. ​What is your favorite food? I eat really bas ... More >>

Stream Jeff Beck's Emotion & Commotion and Bask in its Magnificent Album Art

This is the second time I have been able to use this album cover as the image for one of my posts...sweet!​It's well-documented that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Baja California yesterday afternoon. People in Phoenix are feeling some mild shaking, and the quake may be a factor, but methinks it w ... More >>

Dirt Devil: In the Heated World of Off-Road Racing, Pete Sohren Drives and Talks Hard

This is the second time I have been able to use this album cover as the image for one of my posts...sweet!​It's well-documented that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Baja California yesterday afternoon. People in Phoenix are feeling some mild shaking, and the quake may be a factor, but methinks it w ... More >>

We May Be Losing Cultural Cornerstones Like ASU’s “Duke” Reiter and SMoCA’s Susan Krane, but Just As Much Talent Is Coming to the Valley As Leaving It

This is the second time I have been able to use this album cover as the image for one of my posts...sweet!​It's well-documented that a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Baja California yesterday afternoon. People in Phoenix are feeling some mild shaking, and the quake may be a factor, but methinks it w ... More >>

Chimi Eat World

Arizona's deepest-fried mystery is smothered in cheese, guacamole and sour cream

Border Boyz

As narcocorridos - Mexican drug ballads - get nastier, the crowds in Phoenix get bigger and bigger

Success Story

Brothers dish up Baja-style seafood

Traveling Companions

Gray whales are leading tourists, conservationists and business operators on a rocky voyage toward economic and environmental salvation.

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony 'Save the Whale' campaign

Letters

From the week of December 6–12, 2001

Letters

From the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 5

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

The Unlikely Environmentalists

Mexican officials were quite capable of stopping one of the world's largest corporations on their own

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Resurrection

After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

Arizona Firms Look South

After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

Symington Family Partner Under Suspicion

U.S. authorities suspect a Mexican vegetable grower with business ties to the Symingtons is involved in drug trafficking

The Mexican Connection

How Governor Symington misused state resources to further the cross-border business interests of his friends and family.