The 2010 Renaissance: Tijuana/Baja California
March 22, 2010
“Why go there? You’ll find no one but drug lords and other bad guys.” This is so yesterday!
“Why go there? You’ll find no one but drug lords and other bad guys.” This is so yesterday! The Tijuana of today is a center for gourmet dining, luxurious hotels, world-class artists and musicians, award-winning wines, excellent medical services, centers for scientific research, creative and value–priced home-furnishings (i.e., wrought iron, wood works, glass, pottery, marble, and tiles) plus rugged mountains for climbing and fabulous water for kayaking and surfing.
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Classic Pianos presents 100 Nights of Jazz featuring Drew Morell and Paul Musso.
For over 2 decades, Drew Morell has been a professional jazz pianist, bassist, guitarist and music educator in the Denver area. One of the true heavy hitters on the Denver jazz scene, Drew has recorded as a sideman on dozens of albums, played in every major jazz festival in Colorado and was the house bassist at the nationally renowned El Chapultapec for three years. Drew is full-time music faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver, and owns/operates his own music studio, Infinity Music in Littleton, Colorado.
Paul Musso is an active freelance guitarist and has performed in several diverse jazz, Latin, Gypsy, pop and classical ensembles including: the Colorado Symphony, the Boulder Festival Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra. Paul has performed in venues throughout Europe, Mexico and the United States including the Roulette in Brooklyn, Ronnie Scott’s in London, the Tijuana Cultura
By Paco Zavala
At the head table, from left to right: Christopher M. Peregrin, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve Manager; German Lizola, representing the Governor of Baja California; Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon, Director General of Special Affairs for Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Roberto F. Salmon Castelo , IBWC Mexico Section Commissioner; Edward Drusina, U.S. IBWC Commissioner; William A. Ostick, U.S. Consul General in Tijuana; and David Gibson, Executive Officer of the San Diego Regional Water Control Board
This past Monday, October 5th, at 6:00 p.m., the International Boundary and Water Commission Minute 320, titled “General Framework for Binational Cooperation on Transboundary Issues in the Tijuana River Basin” was signed by representatives of the U.S. and Mexican governments during a solemn ceremony held at “El Cubo”, a space within Tijuana’s Cultural Center. For IBWC, it was signed by Mexican Commissioner Roberto F. Salmon Costelo, and