“It means ‘welcome’ in Chinese,” a man said to me in Spanish, looking up at me from a grey velvet loveseat. He pointed to the wooden sign I was looking at, with large, gold Chinese characters set ...

There was a time when Mexicali ruled this city. The family-owned dynasty goes back so far, in fact, that an old Mexicali sign said they served "Spanish" food, which, for some reason, is what a lot of ...