Here’s a trippy, tender, messed up, Keanu flick. It was originally released as Exposed to much less than stellar reviews,
Category: Art
Local Film Short: Nacido de Nuevo
El Paso’s nascent film scene is happening right under our noses. Here’s an award-winning short from Los Angeles filmmaker Evan
RIP Chalo
Seminal punk rock drummer and El Paso native Charlie Quintana passed away last week in Cancun, Mexico. From the Los
“You Can’t Go Home Again”
From Thomas Wolfe’s novel about the time preceding the stock market crash of 1929: “But he spoke at length about
Plan B
Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to
“Women Aren’t Nags. We’re Just Fed Up.”
My wife told me to post this story. I don’t know why. “What bothers me the most about having any
Peter Dinklage on Passion
Here’s the speech Tyrion Lannister gave to Bennington College’s Class of 2012. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.
U2 on YouTube in El Paso
Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.
“What Happened to Texas Music?”
I saw it happening but I didn’t know what it was. From Fort Worth Weekly: A New York guy killed
Elroop
I’m thinking about marketing myself as a lifestyle brand. You know. Like Gwyneth Paltrow. From the New York Post: Gwyneth
In the News, Sorta
Gabriel Solis writes about how At the Drive In changed his life. At Vice.com: “No guey, you don’t get it!”
Shrub by Valentin Sandoval
Valentin Sandoval is a videographer and the author of South Sun Rising, a critically acclaimed bilingual prose poem about his
Robert Randolph at Tricky Falls Tomorrow Night
Pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph brings his funk and soul and burn-the-house-down rock and roll to Tricky Falls tomorrow night.
Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 1 – Akasha
Do you want to know the unknowable? You can’t. But here’s someone trying to scratch the surface. In four parts.
Destino
Imagine if Walt Disney had gotten together with Salvador Dali and made a trippy six minute animation that must have
Look At This Bitchin’ T-Shirt
And you can get one. Half the money goes to local human rights groups. But that’s a bonus. Mostly it’s
Bug Juice
A new exhibit opens at the El Paso Museum of Art today. Titled The Red That Colored the World, the
Chicano Music
Here’s a short video about the Chicano influence on Latin Music. Check it out.
At The Drive-In at the Coliseum
Hometown heroes At the Drive-in will return this Saturday to play a gig at the County Coliseum, bringing along with
Ski Jump Tires
When I was a kid we’d find old tires up on the mesas and roll them off. Somehow it’s oddly