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Cover Photo by Alfonso Lorenzana Navarro
 WELCOME TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Here’s the deal—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-a...Read more |
  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 know, the ...Read more |
 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 big fra...Read more |
 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 Californi...Read more |
 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. People use “swamp coolers” because th...Read more |
 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 transplants...Read more |
 RECORDS!
Mario Rubalcaba has been in a ton of bands you like, such as Hot Snakes, Earthless, and Rocket from the Crypt. He was a professional skateboarder in the 80s and 90s and is from San Diego, too. If you haven’t caught on yet, this is an entire guide devoted...Read more |
 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? Beaches, mountains, deserts, and Hollywood High are all a short road trip away. A good portion of the “atheletes” are xtreme tools with jacked-...Read more |
 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....Read more |
 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 previously unhea...Read more |
 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. Forty million people—as in the population of a good-size country such as Spain—all running amok across the bor...Read more |
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