SoCal and TJ
Riverside County
Riverside County is Southern California's whipping boy. Oftenreferred to as "the 909" (along with San Bernardino County) or the Inland Empire, the county's a hotbed of meth, motocross, and big, raised airbrushed trucks. It's home to the closest thing...
Bienvenidos a Tijuana!
We have a saying here, south of the border, that we like to recite while looking toward the sky, with a dramatic voice straight out of a telenovela: Oh, Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.
Action Sports in Southern California
What's that? You weren't aware Southern California is big on action sports? Have you ever loooked at a map, asshole?
San Bernardino County
San Bernardino is the largest county in the lower 48 -- the kind of place where both the Olive Garden and the San Bernardino Fire Department get five-star ratings on Yelp and cities like Fontana are referred to as Fontucky.
Orange County
Everything you hear about Orange County is 100 percent true. It's a huge, homogenous area full of rich Republicans, girls from MTV's Laguna Beach, and dudes rocking Affliction, Ed Hardy, flames (yes, still), and spiked hair. Essentially, it's a...
The Cantinas That Fuel the Tijuana Sound Machine
Some of the best and most original music to come out of Mexico over the past ten years has been produced by the Nortec Collective in Tijuana. When they released the Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1 in 2001, they blew everybody’s minds with their...
San Diego County
People who aren't familiar with San Diego County usually associate it with Sea World, the zoo, ASR, beaches, and Comic Con. But they mistakingly overlook the rich fucks in La Jolla, conservative old people, rednecks in the East County, and military...
Los Angeles County
First of all, we are NOT including the City of LA and its surrounding neighborhoods in this little magazine—one guide was more than enough, thanks. Instead, we’re going to focus on the other, often overlooked cities in the county—you...
And About the Other Drugs
Tourism can take some strange turns. Every year an estimated 40 million people cross over into Tijuana to buy drugs: the pharmacy kind. That's right.
Welcome to Southern California
Southern California is a giant mess of freeways, beaches, desert, a few mountains here and there, and strip malls. No shit, that’s pretty much all they have, especially the strip-mall part of that description. Finding a stand-alone establishment...