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Weather Forecast

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I remember when we had to bundle up for Trick or Treat. When sitting in the stands for high school

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Abdou Diary

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by Hope Wright I’d like to tell you that I’ve puked in every bathroom in the Abdou Building. But that

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WJUC Highlights Video

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Here’s are the freshest highlights of the finals of the World Junior (U 20) Ultimate Championship, in Poland. Fresh as

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Downtown Diary: The Last One

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Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo: Chris Trian

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Here’s what Proper Printshop’s Facebook page says about Art en Vivo: Art en Vivo is a live screen printing project

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Champions League

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Are you one of those poor slobs who needs an excuse to day drink? Your salvation is at hand. Today

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Hatch, USA

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It’s chile season. Maybe not for much longer, but ACT NOW to make sure you get your chile dose through

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Tim Razo at Proper Print Shop Tonight

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Southwestern multi-media artist Tim Razo brings his designs to Proper Print Shop, 800 Montana, tonight starting at 6:00, as part

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The Americans at 5 Points Bistro Tonight!

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The Americans bring their Americana folk rock to the 5 Points Bistro, with local stalwarts Sorry About Your Sister providing

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Paul and Julie Go To Juarez

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Yesterday I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Julie and Paul, married for 52 years, are ballroom dancers from southern

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The Americans at 5 Points Bistro

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The Americans bring their white boy blues to 5 Points Bistro tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, with locals Sorry About Your

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Juanga Plaza

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They launched La Gran Plaza de Juan Gabriel last week. I went Sunday, after the VIPs had made their speeches

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FEMAP

The Day I Had Cancer

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Yesterday I had cancer. I found it the night before. An angry little red bump on my back, on my

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Make El Paso Great Again

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What do we want from El Paso? If you say industry to alleviate the homeowners’ tax burden, I’m not buying

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filete al mojo de ajo

Vulgar Talk

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I know it’s vulgar to talk about money. Unless it’s for the children. And I hate to talk about how

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buskers

Where are the buskers?

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With all the struggling musicians in El Paso, I have to wonder why I don’t see more buskers. Last week

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Serving the Community

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Some of you expressed great concern over the financial health of the Kentucky Club after the taxman closed it earlier

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Proper Print Shop’s Art en Vivo 22.09.16

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Hoy es jueves, as we used to say in seventh grade Spanish, and that means that Proper Print Shop is

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reopening day at the kentucky

Okay. Exhale.

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Last night I had a horrible dream. I dreamt that the taxman had closed the Kentucky Club, and Donald Trump

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Entre Otros

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The tirilones aren’t the only guys in Juarez who dress for effect.

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The People Speak!

  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
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  • Jane Yee on The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • elrichiboy on The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1
  • Angela Mollyhorn on The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1
  • John G. Dungan on Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Thank the Taxpayers
  • Can’t We Just Wait?
  • “The Sniper”
  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”
  • “Deadfall”

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