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Port of EntryFrom brokenness comes beautyBorder artist Michelle Guerrero struggled with addiction for years, but a surprise pregnancy helped her straighten out her life. Eventually, she taught herself how to paint large-scale murals, in part, by painting murals on the actual border fence.
These days, Michelle goes by Mr B Baby, and she travels the West Coast and Mexico, painting huge Mexican-inspired murals in a style that is her own.
Now the artist just has to figure out how to balance being a single mother with her skyrocketing success.
Today’s story continues our new season of "Port of Entry" focused on artists and musicians wh...
2021-12-1034 min
Port of EntryTour Guide: Meet the artists behind the micsBig news: we have a new cohost!
In our recurring “Tour Guide” bonus episodes, we ask transborder people to take us on a tour of a special place in the borderlands: a place that means a lot to them. Today, our new fronteriza cohost Natalie Gonzalez, along with our longtime fronterizo host Alan Lilienthal, take us on a tour of two of their favorite places in Tijuana and tell us more about their life on la línea.
Today’s episode continues our new season of "Port of Entry" focused on crossborder artists and musicians who’ve turned pain into superpowe...
2021-11-2448 min
Port of EntryFlickering FameMexican musician Javier Bátiz could very likely have been world famous had he headed north of the border with his good friend and bandmate Carlos Santana back in the day. But instead, Javier went south to Mexico City, where he built a successful career in the country he loves. In a new episode of “Port of Entry,” we look into how Javier’s life, decisions and decades-long musical career have brought him internal peace and fulfillment he says is far more important to him than reaching the high-level fame his friend Carlos found.
Today’s story continues our new season of...
2021-10-2742 min
Port of EntryHustle, Hustle, HustleYou know what they say about one man’s trash becoming another’s treasure, right? At the border, the journey from trash to treasure often involves an actual trip from San Diego to Tijuana, where things like furniture, appliances and other used or discarded objects find a second life. But, of course, those objects don’t move themselves. The whole cross-border, second-hand world involves people like Seth Sullivan, aka “Art Pusher,” one of the best-known “pickers” in the borderlands. Seth is a fireball who’s been through a lot in his cross-border life. But his struggles have only fueled him to keep going an...
2021-10-1354 min
Cinema JunkieAsians On Screen From Yellow Peril To SuperheroEarlier this month Marvel delivered its first Asian superhero in its cinematic universe with "Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." But it’s been a long hard road getting to this point in Hollywood. For the latest episode of Cinema Junkie, I speak with Brian Hu, artistic director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, about the evolution of Asian images on screen from the stereotypes of yellow peril to Shang Chi.
Hu will take us on a tour through early negative stereotypes of Fu Manchu to characters like Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto to the breakthrough st...
2021-09-2245 min
Port of EntryBonus: Fido Goes SouthIn this bonus episode, meet a woman who takes people’s pets from San Diego to Tijuana for more affordable veterinary care. It’s a story about the great lengths we’ll go to for our furry friends.
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2021-09-1517 min
Port of EntryBonus: ‘Like Someone Turned Off A Faucet’In a new “Port of Entry” bonus episode: One Baja chef’s pandemic story and the camera crew who followed it.
Valle de Guadalupe has exploded over the last decade. It’s become a hugely popular wine and food destination for people from around the world. But when the pandemic hit, the flood of tourism to the culinary region just completely stopped at first, then slowly turned into a trickle. A new one-hour special on KPBS called “Ingrediente” tells the story of how Valle de Guadalupe chef Drew Deckman and his restaurant crew learned how to survive and even thrive through the...
2021-09-0129 min
Port of Entry50 Years Of Friendship ParkOn August 18, 1971, First Lady Pat Nixon stood at the place at the southwestern most point of the U.S.-Mexico border and celebrated what was envisioned as "International Friendship Park.” That day, Nixon said, “I hope there won't be a fence too long here.”
Flash forward 50 years, and the small barbed-wire fence that once demarcated the border has been replaced with two large fences, dozens of cameras, a watch tower and other security measures.
In this special bonus episode produced as part of the park's 50th anniversary celebration, we talk to some of the people in Tijuana and San Diego who ar...
2021-08-1837 min
KPBS Investigates‘At The Expense Of My Life’Today on KPBS Investigates, Aaron Harvey’s journey from wrongful gang charges to UC Berkeley graduation.
In the summer of 2014, a swarm of police arrested Aaron Harvey near where he was living outside Las Vegas. Harvey is from San Diego, and was charged as a test case by San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis using a law that had never been used before.
It said someone could be charged for conspiracy for gang shootings, even if that person had nothing to do with the shootings at all. That was the case for Harvey. He was charged because he was in so...
2021-07-2721 min
Cinema JunkieCritical Thinking And The Marvel Cinematic UniverseCinema Junkie has been on a quarantine break but I decided that July, the month of Comic-Con, would be a great time to make a comeback. My first guest is someone who not only fits the spirit of Comic-Con, but also is a longtime friend and frequent Cinema Junkie guest and that is Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, a.k.a. Doctor of the Dead. We've bonded over zombies in the past and now I want to tap into a different side of his expertise to talk about comic book movies.
Blumberg has the distinction of teaching the first of its...
2021-07-1434 min
Port of EntryI Left My Stomach In TijuanaWe continue our series on medical tourism at the border with a story about a plus-size model who’s proud of her big body, but has health issues that lead her to undergo weight-loss surgery in Tijuana, where it's more affordable.
It’s a story about beauty and health and how a young woman is carving out her own corner of the world, creating a space where she fits in, no matter what size or shape or how she got there.
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Guess what? We've got a LIVE event coming up with...
2021-06-0934 min
Port of EntryMaking Babies At The BorderA California couple tries one more time to have a baby by crossing the border and getting fertility treatment in Tijuana. It’s a story about the lengths you’ll go through when the future you envisioned is suddenly out of reach.
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2021-05-2641 min
The Finest CityThe Colorful and Welcoming Nature of Tijuana and Diversity of Urban Planning featuring René PeraltaThis week, Kate introduces a conversation from June 22, 2020, between C3 Board Director and Interior Design Professional Kim Nadel and architect and professor René Peralta. Kim and René speak about the cultural, architectural, and urban conditions that define Tijuana and San Diego. Rene shares his perspective on culture exchange between the two destinations, and how we can support our neighbors to the South by visiting and appreciating the artistry and diversity. Timestamps: [1:26] René discusses the two different viewpoints about San Diego and Mexico’s relationship. One is that we are interrelated, and the other is tha...
2021-04-0918 min
Port of EntryThe Cleaning LadyMeet a San Diego artist who dresses up as a “cleaning lady” to force a conversation about immigrant women.
This episode first aired in June 2019.
About the Show:
“Only Here” is about the unexplored subcultures, creativity and struggles at the U.S.-Mexico border. The KPBS podcast tells personal stories from people whose lives are shaped by the tension reverberating around the wall. This is a show for border babies, urban explorers or those who wonder what happens when two cultures are both separated and intertwined.
Who's behind the show:
Host Alan Lilienthal, producer Kinsee Morlan and sound designer Emily Jankowsk...
2020-08-2130 min
Port of EntryPandemic As PretextThe perception that the U.S.-Mexico border’s been effectively sealed shut because of the pandemic is wrong.
Lots of people are still crossing.
Actually, the biggest, most dramatic change in who can’t cross right now; you’re not going to find those folks at the ports of entry.
Instead, you have to look inside Tijuana’s migrant shelters, and at the refugees who can’t seek asylum in the U.S. right now and are instead stuck in border towns.
So that's what we do today. We talk to a migrant stuck at the border, and a doctor try...
2020-06-3023 min
Port of EntryConversation: A Chef Returns To His Border RootsRuffo Ibarra Arellano is a pedigreed chef.
With his resume, he could be working at some of the fanciest Michelin-star restaurants in the world.
But he chose to be here, running a restaurant in Tijuana instead.
Because Ruffo loves his roots.
And he wants his food to be infused with them.
Obviously, the coronavirus pandemic is deeply impacting Ruffo’s work and his restaurant.
It’s impacting all of us. But restaurants are being hit particularly hard.
Ruffo’s team had just finished remodeling the restaurant a couple of weeks before the quarantine became the new normal.
Even as many restau...
2020-04-0832 min
Port of EntryConversation: TJ Gastro Park Eyeing SDTelefónica Gastro Park has grown into one of the most popular destinations for both locals and tourists in Tijuana.
We continue our conversation-style episodes with Antonio Gamboa, the founder of the foodie hot spot, which has always attracted a big cross-border crowd.
Antonio describes how his parking lot filled with food trucks sprouted organically and eventually grew into the sophisticated collection of food trucks, beer, wine, art and coffee that it is now. He also breaks a bit of food news: he's currently working on opening Telefónica Norte in San Diego.
Telefónica Gastro Park info: http://telefonicagastropark.com...
2020-02-2625 min
Port of EntryBorder Art: Deportation StoriesIn a new episode of KPBS' border podcast "Only Here," we continue our series on border art with a mural that's broadcasting the voices of deportees and those commonly known as DREAMers, children brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
From heart-wrenching stories about parents being deported and separated from their kids to first-hand accounts of what it’s like to start a new life in a new country, the mural painted on the actual border fence uses technology to share stories of deportation and struggle.
You can hear the stories when you walk up to the mural in Pl...
2020-02-1219 min
Port of EntryPart 2: Dog CrossingDog Crossing Part 2: In this episode, we meet Elizabeth Valenzuela who runs another DIY Baja dog rescue operation called Red Barn Rescue, plus other women who've dedicated their lives to saving animals living on the streets of Mexico. We also stop by an adoption event in San Diego where Baja Animal Sanctuary finds new homes for its rescued dogs.
In the last episode, KPBS’ Kinsee Morlan and Emily Jankowski introduced you to Dana Dallabetta, an animal rescuer who saves street dogs in Rosarito and finds them new homes across the border in San Diego. If you haven’t heard that epis...
2019-08-2125 min
San Diego CulturecastAn Update, a Teaser and a Conversation with Keep the Channel OpenHost Kinsee Morlan explains the silence, plays a trailer for Voice of San Diego's new "I Made it in San Diego" podcast and runs an episode from the Keep the Channel Open podcast in which she's interviewed by San Diego writer and photographer Mike Sakasegawa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2017-06-0859 minvosdpodcastnetwork201707Host Kinsee Morlan explains the silence, plays a trailer for Voice of San Diego's new "I Made it in San Diego" podcast and runs an episode from the Keep the Channel Open podcast in which she's interviewed by San Diego writer and photographer Mike Sakasegawa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2017-06-0800 min
Keep the Channel OpenEpisode 41: Kinsee MorlanKinsee Morlan is the engagement editor at Voice of San Diego, author of the Culture Report, and host of the San Diego Culturecast. As one of the main arts and culture writers in the region, Kinsee has a great view of the breadth of the arts scene here in San Diego, so I was excited to get a chance to talk with her. In our conversation we talked about her work with Voice of San Diego, what's great about the arts in San Diego and what gets overlooked, public art in the city, and the diversity of the city's...
2017-06-0756 min
San Diego CulturecastEpisode 5: Softening Gentrification's Blow in Barrio LoganAnna Stump and Daphne Hill are leaving their Barrio Logan art studio. Their rent went up, and while that wasn't the only thing driving their decision, it hastened it. Artists are often part of the first wave of a neighborhood's gentrification. Attracted to the big, open warehouses and affordable rents found in overlooked and forgotten urban neighborhoods, they move in, making the neighborhood cooler and in turn, attracting developers. Often, artists and other residents eventually find themselves priced out. So how can artists help keep the same old cycle from playing out? "I don...
2016-12-2029 minvosdpodcastnetwork201707Anna Stump and Daphne Hill are leaving their Barrio Logan art studio. Their rent went up, and while that wasn't the only thing driving their decision, it hastened it. Artists are often part of the first wave of a neighborhood's gentrification. Attracted to the big, open warehouses and affordable rents found in overlooked and forgotten urban neighborhoods, they move in, making the neighborhood cooler and in turn, attracting developers. Often, artists and other residents eventually find themselves priced out. So how can artists help keep the same old cycle from playing out? "I don...
2016-12-2000 min
Live Free Podcast with Mike MaxwellLive Free Podcast 18 with guest Ms. Kinsee MorlanIn this episode I sit down for a chat with Ms. Kinsee Morlan We talk Dirty Water, Colorado, San Francisco, Localtarianism, The Urban Center,NAFTA, T.J. Zebras, Capitalism, Idle Hands, Planet Money, Power of Art, Sumerians, and the Uncertainty Principal
2011-01-2100 min