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Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

2025-04-21 Kent Paterson Culture, Music, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas,

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Big Bullfight in Juarez this Sunday

2024-10-31 Rich Wright Culture, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

This weekend, Juarez will host one of its rarest events in recent history: a Sunday bullfight. Sundays used to be

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New Mexico Chile: Notes on a Conquered and Downsized Empire

2024-10-14 Kent Paterson Culture, New Mexico, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson In the farmlands that sketch green the Mesilla Valley between Las Cruces and El Paso, the writer

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Anti Onward Alameda Press Conference

2024-09-04 elrichiboy City Management, Culture, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

On July 15,2022, I wrote about the Onward Alamedo project here. “The city has another project on the burner called

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Is El Paso Cool?

2024-05-26 Rich Wright Culture, Economic Development, Slider 12 comments

I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at

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One of the Five Best Tequilas

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Forbes.com: To help simplify things, we turned to the top international spirit competitions to help narrow down the field

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“On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant”

2023-07-25 elrichiboy Business, Culture, Slider 4 comments

by David Graeber From StrikeMagazine.org: In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have

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What I’ll Do If I’m Elected

2022-09-10 Rich Wright City Council, Culture, Economic Development, Elections, Political Advertisement 3 comments

El Paso is a great city. I never thought we needed to spend a billion dollars to fix it. There

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“Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chile?”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Sapiens.org: Psychology researchers, on the other hand, have posited that some people’s preference for capsaicin-containing foods is related to

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