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Saturday Picks
SXSW Music Fest preview guide
"...vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter for the legendary ska-punk band Tijuana NO and now singing backup for Julieta Venegas, Bastida..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...desaturated cinematography (and a trippy, 'shroomed-out carnival scene), the Tijuana-shot Borderland's possible straight-to-DVD future might be perfect for late-night..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Blazing Baile Carioca
Mexico takes on Brazil: winner, metal-based dance?
"...Canseco (Tijuana) Spiro's Amphitheatre, Sat., 8pm; www.myspace.com/canseco..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Texas (Cook)Book Festival
Reviewing the Central Market Cooking School
"...of dairy in photography since Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream album cover. But that's just the..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

A Convenient Truth
Kevin Smith on 'Clerks II'
"...shape, or form I could find. I went to Tijuana once when I was at the San Diego Comic..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Julieta Venegas
Record review
"...hitched and ditched in Cancun on the same weekend. Tijuana's primera señorita of Rock en Español, last witnessed in..."

June 30, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mingus Erectus
Recommended Titles
"...Tijuana Moods (RCA)..."

June 16, 2006 Music Feature

Freight Train Outta Town
Jesse Hercules Taylor
"...me on the freight trains down the coast to Tijuana, and back. It was my favorite vacation...."

March 31, 2006 Music Feature by Jo Carol Pierce

Luv Doc Recommends: Sixth Street for Bourbon Street Benefit Concert
Sixth Street, Thursday, September 15, 2005
"...a better chance negotiating a fair bar tab in Tijuana. If you’re ordering food, you might as well make..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc

Letters at 3AM
Happiness costs. I know better now than to indulge this happiness, but still I drive on and I can't or won't stop. It isn't right that I and my Chevy, and you and your car, eat up the world's resources at the rate we do. We're driving in sin.
"...months on the road. All told, I've driven from Tijuana to Bangor, from Seattle to Key West, from Calgary..."

May 27, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

The Stage Uncaged
How a performative open mic From Iowa became a theatrical springboard in Austin
"...mask – and a straw hat. And Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass was playing in the background, and he laid..."

April 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Latin Beat
Latin beat
"..."Bésame." Julieta Venegas is no stranger to romance, the Tijuana mama putting it all together on Sí (BMG). Coy,..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

A Good Town for Dreaming
Austin gets inside the West Texas capital of contemporary art
"...and El Paso could be more like Baja and Tijuana. Imagine these two border cities unified culturally, the artists..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Short Cuts
South Austin hip video store Pedazo Chunk celebrates its third anniversary with a new store, and it's time to get soused again with the Drunk Film Festival version 3.0
"...be wondering how on earth you ended up in Tijuana and why your nipples are so sore. (Hey, don't..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

ACL Prime Time
Blurbs to ACL Music Fest by.
"...Another ACL coup, this one in español: Long Beach-born, Tijuana-raised, Mexico City-dwelling llorona Julieta Venegas. Pianist, punk, and pop..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...the trippy, breezy Nautilis ("20,000 Leagues Under the Beat?"), Tijuana-based Murcof/Leaf (whose remix work includes the Kronos Quartet), the..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers
"...beyond. Mining prog-jazz avant-core moon rocks the way the Tijuana Brass might bust a move if they were scoring..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

Yuppie Pricks
SXSW records
"...the "fat parade of ho's" that is your average Tijuana donkey show. Musically, Initial Public Offering is rudimentary but..."

March 7, 2003 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Short Third-Degree Sessions
Jesse Sublett gets personal with four of Bouchercon 2002's featured authors.
"...Guzmán, heir to a drug lord's empire, alive from Tijuana on the border to the California state capital in..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Latin Beat
"...the Nortec Collective led the last border revolution, the Tijuana crew dosing ravers with funky Norteño techno. Two refugees..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

100% Texan
Kevin Fowler is among the brightest of the Young Texas rising stars.
"...reason: Willie Nelson sings on "All the Tequila in Tijuana." Kevin raves about the experience...."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Full Exposure: Lily Burana's "Strip City'
From Anchorage, Alaska, to New Jersey to Tijuana, Mexico, Lily Burana takes her readers inside the glitziest and seediest strip clubs in the nation in Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America. But Burana, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, October 1, at 7pm, is also armed with a good deal of feminist theory, research, and unflinching opinions about the sex-worker trade.
"...by stripping. From Anchorage, Alaska, to New Jersey to Tijuana, Mexico, the author takes her readers inside the glitziest..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Books Feature by Amanda Eyre Ward

Sara Smile
Those teeth, those lips, those songs -- the one and only Sara Hickman
"...babysitter putting on my dad's Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass record and dancing. And I was laughing and..."

May 11, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Inspiration of Jesus Chavez
Why a top-ranked boxer, jailed once and deported twice, became the subject of a documentary and a Fighter for the American Dream
"...was issued his green card following a hearing in Tijuana...."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

In His Corner
Marcy Garriott's first documentary, Split Decision, follows the vigilant struggles of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez, who continues to be punished for a crime he has already paid for. Prior to the film's release in Austin this Friday, February 9, Garriott shares her reflections on the film and on her role as a filmmaker and activist.
"...was issued his green card following a hearing in Tijuana.]..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Take the A-Train
Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.
"...measures (like the San Diego Trolley's 20-mile run to Tijuana), to serve the bulk of places people actually want..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Austin Chronicle Margarita Crawl
Bigger Isn't Always Better
"...Most lore says the drink was either invented in Tijuana by Danny Herrera in the late Thirties, in Ciudad..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Total Entertainment Package
Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings
"...he thought, why not turn them into Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass? By all accounts, papa Vallejo was always something..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Him Write Funny
"If somebody hates me," David Sedaris confesses in an interview with Sarah Hepola, "I just go to pieces. I mean, it doesn't really seem fair that I've made my career making fun of people, and if someone makes fun of me, I fall apart. But that's the way it is."
"...would have to be like a medical school in Tijuana or something...."

June 16, 2000 Books Feature by Sarah Hepola

Between Worlds
Cine las Americas Festival of New Latin American Cinema
"...from her humble Mexican village to the brothels of Tijuana, guided the entire time by her beloved saints."..."

April 21, 2000 Screens Feature

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