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Retrovision: Go Local: Holiday Edition

2017-12-20 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

[This post originally appeared on 22 December 2015, but it’s still got legs.] Somehow the holidays always sneak up on

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Lucha Libre Last Sunday

2017-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, what to do Leave a comment

The lucha libre season at Arena Kalaka is closing out this Sunday. Arena Kalaka is over there on Melchor Ocampo,

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Champions League Today

2017-12-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sports, what to do Leave a comment

Okay, sports fans, here’s a gift for all of you who are encumbered by day jobs. Champions League is winnowing

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The New Upscale Coffee Joint on Avenida Juarez

2017-12-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, what to do Leave a comment

I can’t drink coffee after noon. Well, I can, but then I don’t sleep at night. I’ve got blood like

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Paul Foster’s Vision for El Paso

2017-12-01 elrichiboy economic development, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

Here’s Paul Foster presenting his vision for El Paso at the recent TEDx El Paso event. When, do you suppose,

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The Best Flautas in Juarez

2017-11-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, what to do Leave a comment

Or so they say. La Pila #2 is down there in La Chaveña, south of downtown, west of the tracks.

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Cosmonauts at Monarch on Thursday

2017-11-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, music, sponsored, what to do Leave a comment

Here’s a show we can all get behind. The Cosmonauts play jangly, gloopy, alt-rock. Like this: I predict this is

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Did You Know That I Am An Award-Winning Chef?

2017-11-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, what to do One comment

Yup. Lookie here: I won that at the second occasional casserole contest over there in Steglich’s backyard. My winning dish

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Chile Cookoff at Hope & Anchor

2017-11-15 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, what to do Leave a comment

Okay, sports fans. Sunday at 4 pm there’s a chile cookoff taking place at Hope & Anchor. I’ll be there.

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Sparta Concert! FREE Tickets!

2017-11-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, music, what to do Leave a comment

Sparta’s playing a benefit concert on Saturday, December 16, at Tricky Falls. And tickets are FREE, FREE, FREE. But you

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Salsa Brava

2017-11-11 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

At Monarch last night the salsa brava was pretty popular. “You should sell it,” people said. But I’m not into

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Maybe You Can Relate

2017-11-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, video 3 comments

Perhaps you’ve seen this. It’s a used car commercial for a 1996 Honda Accord. Check it out.

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Free To Good Home, Chile Pequin Plants

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, what to do Leave a comment

I’ve got about six or nine Chile Pequin plants growing in pots, and I’d like to offshore them before it’s

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Better Bike Sharing

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, How to Live in El Paso, perspectives One comment

LimeBike recently raised $50 million in its second round of capital funding to expand its operations in the U.S. The

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Billares El Cid

2017-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income and opportunity, the present is not equally distributed. In Mexico, the

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Hope & Anchor’s Birthday Party is Today!

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Corrections, How to Live in El Paso, shows, what to do Leave a comment

I hope you went on Tuesday. But the real party is today. Sorry. I guess I need to learn to

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I’ve Got a Chile Problem

2017-10-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Two years ago I planted chile pequin. I bought the dried chiles at the grocery store, crushed the pods, and

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The Lost World with the Alloy Orchestra

2017-09-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, what to do Leave a comment

City of Dust contributor John Mulhouse offers El Chuqueño readers this: I just saw the Alloy Orchestra (featuring Roger Miller

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Bullfight Friday Night

2017-08-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, what to do Leave a comment

If you’re a bullfight aficionado you probably already know that there’s a bullfight Friday night at the Alberto Balderas bullring

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Mike and the Moonpies Tonight at the State Line

2017-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, music, shows, what to do Leave a comment

Mike and the Moonpies bring their brand of outlaw country to the State Line tonight as part of the barbecue

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