Partyin in Tijuana

[Anotherline]

Hey folks, i'm a scottish guy coming over for Coachella and i heard that the college kids of San Diego have mad parties in Tijuana. i was wondering how i would go about getting in contact with them to hook up. After Coachella, i'll be in L.A. for a week so i'll be going to all the prime hot spots but as we all know that all the best parties are secret as they are illegal. Anyway get me on Anotherline@hotmail.co.uk
Cheers

[meyouseek]

If you're in the 18-20 crowd you can pretty much just walk across the border, jump in a cap and they'll take you to Avenue de la Revolucion (sp?).

Tons of clubs, bars, strip joints and pharmacies. Plus leather goods, switchblades, fireworks, donkey shows, jai alai, plaster Bart Simpsons, woven things, chiclets, etc.

[meyouseek]

If you want an illegal party I suggest sticking to this side of the border. The jails are nicer.

[smoke]

yea you don't have to look for party's in tijuana...just head to the border and the signs/mexicans will point you in the right direction.

[jazzz]

you are so on tour mate! all you need to do now is head on over to the TOOL-SHED downtown Palm Springs for further instructions.... Don't forget to get a scrotum wax while there!

[smoke]

also: much of northern baja has seen in increase in crime over the last few months. don't be fooled and don't be a fool if you go down there. things can happen real quick that will make it very difficult for you to get home.

[jazzz]

also: much of northern baja has seen in increase in crime over the last few months. don't be fooled and don't be a fool if you go down there. things can happen real quick that will make it very difficult for you to get home.

exactly... go to Amsterdam which is up the street from Scottland... haha. seriously Mexico is great but.... be careful do not use a ATM over there... you will LOSE!! Major scams!! at most locations

[JustSteve]

i saw a report the other night that tourism from the states is down 90% in tj recently due to all the crime.

[SFChrissy]

Don't fuck with mexico...a gringo like you seems to ALWAYS get arrested!!!

[donthasselthehof]

tijuana is the last place i would want to party

[BeHereNOW]

tijuana is the last place i would want to party

say that to the Black Lips =D

tijuana is awesome!

[donthasselthehof]

its a different awesome

awesome like at any moment my gringo self could be arrested, kidnapped or stabed and its awesomely dirty

i stick to rosarito

[BeHereNOW]

its a different awesome

awesome like at any moment my gringo self could be arrested, kidnapped or stabed and its awesomely dirty

i stick to rosarito

word.
different awesome.

TJ is not for the weak....

[ruetheday]

go down to ensenada

[Hawkings]

Rosarito or Ensenada both good. TJ is dirtier, sleazier and people go their because it's closer to the border and you dont' know better and like to hear 'face down, ass up, that's the way we like to f@#!' and other classics. Really the only reason to go to TJ is if your 18, going to school in San Diego and want to be able to drink in clubs and bars but can't in the US yet. Or to see acts like NIN back in the day at Iguana's.

least no one told ya 'ask around for Donkey Show and thank me later.'

[Lazaro]

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manu chao, welcome to tijuana

[Lazaro]

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herb alpert & the tijuana brass -- spanish flea

[Lazaro]

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Gomez, Tijuana Lady @ Bowery Ballroom

[orbit]

Why wasn't Bidji with Manu Chao at Coachella last year? When did he leave Radio Bemba?

[canexplain]

i already told my story of closing down the boarder all by myself lol .... and i walked tj at two in the morning by myself, trashed as could be, and never had any trouble ... walked all the way from downtown, if i remember right, to the boarder .... i was lucky, or just looked to scary to mess with hehehheh ... but i guess i would have to say, for most people, its not a good idea .. ensinada sp sure thats safe and so so good beaches .. go more south, or stay this side of the boarder imho...... x****

[leo01g]

Ive been over the border many times and have never had any troubles. Just be cool and dont act like a jackass becuase you think Mexico doesnt have any rules. I would rather be partying on sunset than TJ since it isnt all that cheap. We spent almost 50 dollars on four beers and a tequila shot. Did anyone go to the Ed Banger after party in October? There were some pretty hot blonde hispanics there, i know they were hispanic becuase they didnt know english.

[BeHereNOW]

Just be cool and dont act like a jackass becuase you think Mexico doesnt have any rules.

totally gringo style overthere at TJs ... and Cancun's, Puerto Vallarta's, etc

scottish have different acts I guess... it should be fine...

[Blinken]

If you go to TJ ask around for a donkey show, thank me latter.

Leo, when i went back before i was 21, There this club, i think saphire, where it was a $13 cover, with an open bar. I don't remember much else. I was told that i puked in a taxi on the way to the border, and one of my other buddies puked in the line to cross the border. Good times.

[NiceArthur32]

actually partying in TJ isnt half bad...

well i mean, you can get dollar beers EVERYWHERE and great fucking tacos...

and the best deal on strip clubs EVER! (5 dollar cover, 15 dollar lap dances, 2 dollar beers)

and if youre willing to spare 60 bucks you can get some of the finest looking hookers around...

but the party scene there isnt as great as it used to be...

[fatbastard]

Popular Tijuana singer found tortured, slain
Last Updated: Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 5:06 PM ET
CBC News
Another Mexican singer was found tortured and killed last week, authorities in Tijuana revealed on Wednesday.

Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido, a popular local performer known as El Gallito or The Little Rooster, and two members of his staff were found dead just south of the border from San Diego, Calif., prosecutors confirmed after rumours arose the bodies were found last week.

Left with the bodies were threatening notes about the execution-style killings.

The 26-year-old Alfaro is the latest victim in a wave of violent murders of Mexican singers, some of whom performed so-called narcocorridos, a genre of ballad that glorifies crime and the drug trade.

Since 2006, when Mexico began ramping up its campaign to stamp out drug trafficking close to the U.S. border, a host of Mexican singers, musicians and their crew have been tortured and killed.



Drug war dampens Tijuana's booming art scene
Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:19am

TIJUANA (Reuters) - The seediness of this crime-hit border city inspires sculptor Raul Cardenas to make his cutting-edge art. But when stray bullets from a drug gang shootout shattered his studio window, he was forced to move to a safer part of the city.

"Two years ago it was different here, people wanted to come to Tijuana. Now every few days someone is kidnapped," said Cardenas, who makes conceptual sculptures in the sprawling city of factories and shanty-towns just south of San Diego.

Tijuana, a city known since prohibition times as a haven for Americans looking for a tawdry vacation, has gained a reputation as a cultural hotbed since artists began setting up here in the early 1990s and turning the heads of international curators with unique, often political art.

But a recent spike in violence is putting a cramp on the cultural scene as tourists flee and galleries shut doors.

Mexico's drug war is boiling over in Tijuana with over 300 people killed here last year, overwhelming residents accustomed to common crime but not to so much bloodshed.

A consortium of smugglers from the Pacific state of Sinaloa, led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is waging war against other cartels. Drug gang killers have dumped severed human heads on streets and scrawled ominous messages on their victims' corpses.

President Felipe Calderon responded to the violence by deploying 25,000 troops around the country in an unprecedented campaign and now traffickers fight daytime gun battles in crowded neighborhoods with the army and police.

Tijuana's bawdy bars and seedy streets where prostitutes lean against open doorways have attracted free-living artists, photographers and musicians from both sides of the border. But the growing drug violence is turning some away.


Authorities believe that gangs are targeting singers associated with their rivals.

Glenna Jennings, a California photographer who collaborates with U.S. and Mexican artists in Tijuana, wanted to open a gallery for performance art in one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, "Colonia Libertad."

"The recent violence has had an effect on our plans and things have been 'tabled' for the moment," Jennings said.

She now works in the lively port town of Ensenada an hour south of Tijuana, which along with nearby Rosarito also has a blossoming art scene. But violence is spreading there too.

CORPSE SNATCHED

One brazen case hit the news last November when a group of heavily-armed men snatched the body of a fellow trafficker from a morgue in Ensenada to thwart a police investigation.

Bad publicity is spooking American visitors, said Rosarito gallery owner Lorena Mancilla. "Tourists in general, but mostly art buyers, have stopped coming," she said.

Cardenas, his new studio now in a residential neighborhood, says everyone in town knows someone who has been snatched and held for ransom as drug smugglers hit by Calderon's crackdown look for new ways to make money. Some victims return without fingers, others never come home.

But Cardenas, like many others, finds inspiration in the cultural mix along the U.S.-Mexico border and doesn't want to leave.

For a recent museum piece, he sewed satellite-positioning systems into the clothes of five people who regularly cross the border and traced their movements back and forth on a series of colorful maps.

One artists' collective called Bulbo has started a discussion group loosely modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous to help people cope with the rough side of life in Tijuana.

Marcos Ramirez, whose studio overlooks the border, is creating an installation at a Texas gallery around video of him machine-gunning a car, a commentary on the violence.

"I make art to balance out all the evil," said Ramirez, who is known in the art world as by his signature "ERRE." "Many people can't handle Tijuana. I'm fascinated by it, but I'm crazy," he said.

[hypervera]

yeah a lot of people killed but killed because they are in the drug business, just dont be an idiot and everything's gonna be ok

[alex97]

yeah a lot of people killed but killed because they are in the drug business, just dont be an idiot and everything's gonna be ok

yup, it's definitely not a random thing..

[NiceArthur32]

^^^^^^she knows, she's a local...


=)

[joppy-slow]

Hey folks, i'm a scottish guy coming over for Coachella and i heard that the college kids of San Diego have mad parties in Tijuana. i was wondering how i would go about getting in contact with them to hook up. After Coachella, i'll be in L.A. for a week so i'll be going to all the prime hot spots but as we all know that all the best parties are secret as they are illegal. Anyway get me on Anotherline@hotmail.co.uk
Cheers

go..and have fun..everyone has to experience TJ once..
been many times and have always gotten back to the USA without any serious damage done.. just try not to get caught doing anything illegal, because the police are very corrupt...and you will be paying loads of money for your freedom, regardless of how petty your crime is...

[NiceArthur32]

oh crap... almost forgot this little tid bit of VERY useful information..

in tijuana pissing in public = first degree murder