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It’s Not Too Late To Get Those Tomatoes In The Ground

2019-09-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. The National Weather Service says there a real good chance that this winter will be warmer than usual.

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The Legendary Barry Martin

2019-08-28 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Music, Slider, Your Health 6 comments

If you live in El Paso and you don’t know who Barry Martin is, you don’t own a guitar, and

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Why You’re Fat

2019-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Your Health One comment

The Atlantic weighs in on some surprising reasons why it was easier to be skinny in the 80s than it

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Speaking of Tortillas

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Did you remember that the Rib Hut on Mesa has $1.50 burritos on Saturdays? You can pick up a dozen

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Mmm good!

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

I haven’t tasted these tortillas yet, but they smell delicious.

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Quality of Life

2019-07-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, How to Live in El Paso, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when

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Spice Up Your life, Love

2019-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

Have you noticed that jalapeños aren’t hot anymore? Agronomists have Burbanked the heat right out of them. These days if

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More Bull****t

2019-03-06 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do 4 comments

Down below El Paso lies Juarez Mexico is different, like the travel folder says (Burt Bacharach. Who knew?) And this

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Where Locals Drink

2019-01-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Coconuts!? Coconuts, that little seven o’clock bar in Five Points, cracked the top ten in the El Paso Inc.’s list

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El Paso in the Guardian

2018-12-28 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Lately El Paso has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. But here’s something nice. Here’s a story

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El Paso Disposal Sucks

2018-11-20 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

I’ve got a dumpster on the sidewalk in front of my house. [Across the street.] The dumpster is for the

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Really?

2018-11-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Isn’t the middle of November late for mosquitos? I squashed this one yesterday.

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The Hippest Resto-bar in Town

2018-11-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do 2 comments

Maybe you’ll think you’re in Barcelona. After all, most of the rock is en español. Or maybe Mexico City. Or

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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Toro!

2018-08-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

Are you in the mood for a barbaric spectacle that’s steeped in tradition? Well, the election isn’t till November, but

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Mountain Biking Lost Dog

2018-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, TIRZs, Video One comment

Here’s the City’s latest advertisement promoting some of the wonderful outdoor opportunities we can enjoy here in El Paso. No,

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Chicano Batman At Music Under the Stars at Cohen on Sunday

2018-07-14 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

There are lots of ways to slice El Paso. Some El Pasoans like baseball and lazy river rides. And some

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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How To Live in El Paso: Car-Camping

2018-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

This 4th of July we went car-camping. I’ve slept on the ground a lot. I used to backpack, hiking into

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Protest Your Property Tax Valuation

2018-05-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Taxes 3 comments

There are lots of reasons that some people don’t protest their property tax valuations. Some people like the idea of

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