observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
Terrific piece by Chad Deal about the cultural renaissance on Calle Sexta in Tijuana. Because Tijuana doesn’t need a culture driven by Marriot hotels and cheap piña coladas by the pool. From the San Diego Reader Wednesday, May 11, 2001 Zonkey Rock: Party People Take Back Tijuana by Chad Deal […]
San Diego CityBeat’s Seth Combs considers the complicated decision of many bands to boycott Arizona in the wake of the vicious anti-immigrant law SB1070. Many bands feel that this one cuts both ways. From San Diego CityBeat Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Should they stay or should they go? A year […]
Here’s a piece I published in CityBeat this month about street art in San Diego. Published April 4, 2011 in San Diego CityBeat by Jill Holslin If you’re on a bicycle at the bottom of the steep hill at the intersection of B and 19th streets near City College, the […]
The University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute presents Border Film Week March 28-31 All films screen from 6-8 PM. Free and open to the public March 28, 2011 in Warren Auditorium, SOLES building “Tijuaneados Anonimos” The border city of Tijuana, México is experiencing a crisis of unprecedented violence and ungovernability, this situation […]
WHILE I’m on the subject of modernism in San Diego, I wanted to point out another amazing San Diego webpage celebrating San Diego mid-century style: Modern San Diego. Modern San Diego was started by San Diegan Keith York, who works as program director at KPBS and teaches courses in media […]
The Friends of San Diego Architecture have just posted an amazing collection of architectural images donated by the local historian Ned Paynter (1935-2007). Paynter was an avid traveler with a passion for architecture, and his collection of 10,000 images includes 500 photographs of buildings in San Diego. Many of San […]
NOTE: This film was screened in San Diego in 2009, but is available for purchase at 800MileWall.org Screening Dec 3, 2009 at Joe & Vi Jacobs Center, 404 Euclid Ave San Diego, CA- So far this year, 206 migrants have died in […]
> REVIEW Rating: 3 stars (good) By Michael Phillips | Tribune critic June 5, 2009 Present-day Tijuana is one of the most compelling places on earth. It’s a symbol of the push-pull co-dependency of America and Mexico, a city defined by a fence that runs straight into the Pacific Ocean. […]
This article kicks off a new column at The San Diego Border Observer: San Diego Style will document both innovative and classic architectural styles in the mid-city neighborhoods of San Diego. Here’s a lovely entryway in North Park/Normal Heights: a classic Spanish style bungalow. Notice the elegant entryway, painted a […]
