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==Culture==
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Many foreigners travel to Tijuana to drink and dance, buy [[prescription drug]]s, purchase bootleg brand-name clothing, timepieces, and other personal accessories found globally, as well as manufactured and hand-crafted local curiosities. Locals and regular tourists avoid hassles by visiting the clubs at ''Plaza Fiesta'' or other areas of the [[Zona Río, Tijuana|Zona Río]] without the crowds, heavy marketing, and occasional tourist misbehavior or outright lawbreaking common on the Revolución strip.

Parque Morelos has a small zoo and park space; Parque de la Amistad in Otay Centenario has a small pond, and a running and dirt-bike track. Parque Teniente Guerrero is a downtown park with a public library and weekend entertainment by clowns.

===Entertainment===
[[File:Avenida Revolución (2650821469).jpg |thumb|upright|The [[Jai alai|Jai Alai]] arena, built in 1947, attracted spectators from both sides of the border.]]
As Tijuana matured from a tourist-oriented border town into one of Mexico's largest cities, the 1982 opening of the [[Tijuana Cultural Center]] (CECUT) marked a milestone. CECUT's mission was to strengthening Tijuana's image, both to US visitors and to Mexicans, as a destination for culture and not only shopping and vice. The center includes an OMNIMAX cinema showing [[IMAX]] films, the Museum of the Californias, contemporary art exhibition halls, a restaurant, café, bookstore, and other cultural facilities.

La Casa de la Cultura cultural center comprises a school, a theater, and a public library, and teaches dance, painting, music, plastic arts, photography and languages.

Other cultural venues include the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (Municipal Institute of Art and Culture), the Tijuana Wax Museum, the Museo El Trompo ([[Trompo]] Museum), and [[El Foro]], the former [[Jai Alai]] Palace, that is now a concert venue. Concerts are also held at the Estadio Caliente stadium, Hipódromo [[Agua Caliente Racetrack]], and at the "Audiorama" at the Museo El Trompo children's museum of science and technology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tijuanaeventos.com/conciertos#axzz5h5Kf7eEd|title=Eventos – Conciertos – Tijuana Eventos|website=Tijuanaeventos.com}}</ref>

The [[Tijuana Country Club]] (Club Campestre de Tijuana) has many affluent members and a famous golf course and also functions as an entertainment and events venue. Tijuana also has a large [[Rotary Club]].

'''Nightlife'''<br />
[[File:Caesar's hotel and restaurant exterior 2019.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Caesar salad]] was invented at [[Caesar's]] in the 1920s.]]
Avenida Revolución has been known for its proliferation of nightclub shows, primarily catering to tourists.

Tijuana's nightlife scene is one of the city's strongest attractions. The area surrounding "'''La Sexta'''", the intersection at Calle Sexta and Av. Revolución, is now a major hub of new bars and dance clubs. Zona Rio, Tijuana's new Downtown, is home to some of the city's finest restaurants and bars. Another capstone of Tijuana's entertainment offerings is its adult nightlife industry, which includes the city's red light district as well as less conspicuous adult entertainment venues.

===Art===
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Tijuana also has a very active and independent artist community whose internationally recognized work has earned Tijuana the title of "one of the most important new cultural meccas", according to ''[[Newsweek]]'',<ref name="Cultural Mecca">''Strange New World''</ref> an exhibition of Tijuana's current art scene, is being curated by the [[Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego]] and is traveling across the US in 2006 and 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title = ART REVIEW Tijuana's scrappy, do-it-yourself spirit Ingenuity seizes the day as a traveling exhibition brings a vibrant creative scene across the border. |last = Pagel |first = David Pagel |newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]] |date = 30 January 2007 |page = E–1}}</ref> Art collectives like ''Bulbo'' and film production like ''Palenque Filmaciones'' explore the use of film like the award-winning [[Tijuana Makes Me Happy]], media like television bulbo TV and print "bulbo PRESS", to show different realities of Tijuana out of Mexico. In 2004, Tijuana earned international acclaim for an art exhibition displayed on the cement banks of the Tijuana River and along the Mexico/U.S. border fence in Otay Mesa.

[[Graffiti]] is widespread in Tijuana. They can range from free-hand writing in spray can and marker form, often carrying social or sexual commentary in English or Spanish, pictures in [[wheatpaste]] and stencils, consisting of stenciled renderings of personalities crucial to Hispanic culture from past and present eras, such as television news announcers or stars, but also extending to images of artists like [[Salvador Dalí]]. Graffiti in Tijuana may seem at first to consist largely of simplistic tags and thus not as technically evolved, colorful, or accepted in the mainstream as the "pieces" of graffiti scenes of the United States, Europe, or Japan, but large, colorful graffiti murals adorn walls from both native Tijuanan artists as well as visiting graffiti writers, especially from California. The Tijuanan art pieces show as much prowess and skill as those made by their more renowned U.S. counterparts, although illicit graffiti are strongly discouraged by the Tijuana government, as in other major metropolitan areas.

===Music===
Since the decade of the 1920s, Tijuana has excelled in the musical field, thanks to the first groups of ranchera music that began to set the tourist establishments in the area with the visit of foreigners, including the former Casino Agua Caliente.

[[Javier Batiz]] founded in 1957 he founded a group called "{{ill|Los TJ's|es|TJ's|vertical-align=sup}}" with which he collected musical influences that were received in the Mexican border cities of black music, blues and R&B from people like T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, [[B.B. King]], [[Chuck Berry]], Howlin' Wolf, James Brown, among others. Later he would start his solo career in the rest of the country and participating in some bands in Mexico City.

[[File:Tijuana-performers.jpg|thumb|left|A [[Norteño (music)|Norteño]] musical ensemble performing in [[Downtown Tijuana]]]]

During the 60s, the American trumpeter [[Herb Alpert]], in a visit to the bullfights made in the old Bullfight, found musical inspiration so after the recording of his single "The Lonely Bull", which was a radio hit in 1962. With the success, he decided to make a casting and formed "The Tijuana Brass", with whom he toured and had a presentation on television. It was a musical collaboration with artists from Los Angeles, with style called "Tijuana Marimba´s Brass". The band was dissolved in 1969 but they continued with some presentations under the name of T.J.B. 55

Despite the downturn in rock artists for some years, in the 90s [[Tijuana No!]] emerged, returning a bit of the genre to the city. They also incorporated ska, punk and reggae. "No" would be the first album released, from which successes like "Pobre de ti", which had [[Julieta Venegas]] as a vocalist, would emerge. Later the singer began her solo career already in the 00s of the 21st century. Her musical career reached the recording of six studio albums, and she won two [[Grammys]], six [[Latin Grammys]], six MTV Latin America and two [[Latin Music Billboard]].

[[File:Vista del Reloj-Arco monumental (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|The Tijuana Arch, in Zona Centro]]

Among other things, Tijuana has been the inspiration for the birthplace of [[Nortec]] music style and [[cultural movement|Ruidoson]], resulting in a very large and active electronic music scene where groups and artists like [[Los Macuanos]], [[Maria y Jose]], [[Siberium]], [[Hidhawk]] and [[Harpocrates]] emerged. Tijuana also enjoys a large base of support in many other musical scenes such as [[mexican hip hop]], [[reggae]], [[hardcore punk|hardcore]], [[punk rock|punk]], [[black metal]] and [[house music]]. Famous musicians are from Tijuana including the pop-rock singer-songwriter [[Lynda Thomas]] and [[Vanessa Zamora]] and international indie punk bands like [[Delux]] and Los Kung-Fu Monkeys.

To promote the cultural development in children and youth of Tijuana, since 1996 the Tijuana Youth Symphony (SJT) has been promoted, which promotes education and musical training through instrument practices, music reading and public concerts. In addition, Tijuana has an opera season. There are also several musical festivals throughout the year, among which the Latin American Guitar Festival, Mainly Mozart Binacional, and the International Exhibition of contemporary dance "Bodies in Transit" stand out.

Tijuana is home to the Baja California Orchestra, one of the most prestigious and solid artistic institutions in northwestern Mexico, which was nominated for the Latin Grammy in the category of best classical album by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Inc., with the album Tango kills Danzón kills Tango. This phonogram was distinguished as 'Best Classical Album of the year 2001' by the Mexican Union of Theater and Music Chroniclers. Currently, it maintains an annual season, offering symphonic and chamber music concerts in the most important forums of Tijuana and Baja California.