Culture, Counterculture, Commentary, and Stuff
To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each
Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s
You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”
If you only visit the English media here in El Paso, you might not know that there’s a city across
This 1954 movie’s got Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and a mess of other stars of yesteryear, in a
On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was
This post originally appeared on 01 October 2015. Some things have changed since then. Our Commercial property tax rate is
Here’s District 4 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez Brown, talking about City Council’s economic development initiatives to the Texas Standard: “You
They say it’s a nail biting action thriller. The acting is a little wooden, but there’s plenty of old-white-guy on
This post originally appeared on 5 April 2016. In my next life, I want to come back as a member
Entering the United State illegally is a misdemeanor, like taking a sip of beer in the parking lot of a
The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of
I found the models for Cimi’s Segundo Barrio mural. I bet they don’t even know that they’re famous.
This story from Harper’s is about New York, but it’s the formula our city fathers are emulating. New York has
Here’s a 1956 film noir with some nice cinematography. With Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Annette Benning, and Rudy Bond. It’s
An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part
You hear it all the time. “Thank you so much.” Well, how much is so much? Is it more than
The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a
There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El
The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never