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RIP Chalo

2018-03-18 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Music, News Leave a comment

Seminal punk rock drummer and El Paso native Charlie Quintana passed away last week in Cancun, Mexico. From the Los

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“You Can’t Go Home Again”

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives Leave a comment

From Thomas Wolfe’s novel about the time preceding the stock market crash of 1929: “But he spoke at length about

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Plan B

2017-10-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to

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“Women Aren’t Nags. We’re Just Fed Up.”

2017-10-04 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives One comment

My wife told me to post this story. I don’t know why. “What bothers me the most about having any

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Peter Dinklage on Passion

2017-07-27 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the speech Tyrion Lannister gave to Bennington College’s Class of 2012. Check it out.

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U2 on YouTube in El Paso

2017-07-24 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.

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“What Happened to Texas Music?”

2017-06-23 elrichiboy Art, Music Leave a comment

I saw it happening but I didn’t know what it was. From Fort Worth Weekly: A New York guy killed

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Elroop

2017-06-15 elrichiboy Art, Navel Gazing One comment

I’m thinking about marketing myself as a lifestyle brand. You know. Like Gwyneth Paltrow. From the New York Post: Gwyneth

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In the News, Sorta

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Gabriel Solis writes about how At the Drive In changed his life. At Vice.com: “No guey, you don’t get it!”

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Shrub by Valentin Sandoval

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Video Leave a comment

Valentin Sandoval is a videographer and the author of South Sun Rising, a critically acclaimed bilingual prose poem about his

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Robert Randolph at Tricky Falls Tomorrow Night

2017-06-03 elrichiboy Art, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph brings his funk and soul and burn-the-house-down rock and roll to Tricky Falls tomorrow night.

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 1 – Akasha

2017-05-26 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Do you want to know the unknowable? You can’t. But here’s someone trying to scratch the surface. In four parts.

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Destino

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Imagine if Walt Disney had gotten together with Salvador Dali and made a trippy six minute animation that must have

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Look At This Bitchin’ T-Shirt

2017-05-17 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

And you can get one. Half the money goes to local human rights groups. But that’s a bonus. Mostly it’s

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Bug Juice

2017-05-12 elrichiboy Art, What to Do 2 comments

A new exhibit opens at the El Paso Museum of Art today. Titled The Red That Colored the World, the

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Chicano Music

2017-05-10 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a short video about the Chicano influence on Latin Music. Check it out.

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At The Drive-In at the Coliseum

2017-05-05 Fletcher Wright Art, How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Hometown heroes At the Drive-in will return this Saturday to play a gig at the County Coliseum, bringing along with

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Ski Jump Tires

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

When I was a kid we’d find old tires up on the mesas and roll them off. Somehow it’s oddly

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UTEP’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble: Layali Al-Sham

2017-04-22 elrichiboy Art, Music Leave a comment

Here’s a video about UTEP’s middle eastern music ensemble that I lifted from Facebook. Check it out.

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Día de San Ricardo

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Art, Opportunity! Leave a comment

Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel.org. Tradition dictates

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