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Bob Owens wrote for the Reader from 1983 through 2001. Editor's picks of Owens' stories: Tijuana’s upholstery heyday Jose Quezada, 47, calls himself a talón. “A talón is like a hustler. And a talón is important here. Some of the workers–” he rolls his eyes back to the shop where men are banging dents from cars — “think a talón is expendable. ‘We can do without him.’ But the boss thinks, ‘No, a talón is indispensable. (Aug.
Stephen Meyer wrote for the Reader from 1984 through 1987. Editor's picks of stories Meyer wrote: James Gibson saw the police before they saw him, and his walk turned out to be a run — straight south from Imperial Beach to Mexico. You can run but you cannot hide (at least not in Tijuana) When two Mexican police officers and two FBI agents showed up at his beachfront Playas de Tijuana apartment on October 17, James Gibson had reason to suspect that his attempt to start a new life.
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