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The New Upscale Coffee Joint on Avenida Juarez

2017-12-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

I can’t drink coffee after noon. Well, I can, but then I don’t sleep at night. I’ve got blood like

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Paul Foster’s Vision for El Paso

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Here’s Paul Foster presenting his vision for El Paso at the recent TEDx El Paso event. When, do you suppose,

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The Best Flautas in Juarez

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Or so they say. La Pila #2 is down there in La Chaveña, south of downtown, west of the tracks.

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Cosmonauts at Monarch on Thursday

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Here’s a show we can all get behind. The Cosmonauts play jangly, gloopy, alt-rock. Like this: Watch this video on

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Did You Know That I Am An Award-Winning Chef?

2017-11-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

Yup. Lookie here: I won that at the second occasional casserole contest over there in Steglich’s backyard. My winning dish

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Chile Cookoff at Hope & Anchor

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Okay, sports fans. Sunday at 4 pm there’s a chile cookoff taking place at Hope & Anchor. I’ll be there.

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Sparta Concert! FREE Tickets!

2017-11-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Sparta’s playing a benefit concert on Saturday, December 16, at Tricky Falls. And tickets are FREE, FREE, FREE. But you

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Salsa Brava

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At Monarch last night the salsa brava was pretty popular. “You should sell it,” people said. But I’m not into

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Maybe You Can Relate

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Perhaps you’ve seen this. It’s a used car commercial for a 1996 Honda Accord. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Free To Good Home, Chile Pequin Plants

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

I’ve got about six or nine Chile Pequin plants growing in pots, and I’d like to offshore them before it’s

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Better Bike Sharing

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Perspectives One comment

LimeBike recently raised $50 million in its second round of capital funding to expand its operations in the U.S. The

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Billares El Cid

2017-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income and opportunity, the present is not equally distributed. In Mexico, the

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Hope & Anchor’s Birthday Party is Today!

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Corrections, How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

I hope you went on Tuesday. But the real party is today. Sorry. I guess I need to learn to

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I’ve Got a Chile Problem

2017-10-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Two years ago I planted chile pequin. I bought the dried chiles at the grocery store, crushed the pods, and

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The Lost World with the Alloy Orchestra

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City of Dust contributor John Mulhouse offers El Chuqueño readers this: I just saw the Alloy Orchestra (featuring Roger Miller

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Bullfight Friday Night

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If you’re a bullfight aficionado you probably already know that there’s a bullfight Friday night at the Alberto Balderas bullring

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Mike and the Moonpies Tonight at the State Line

2017-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Mike and the Moonpies bring their brand of outlaw country to the State Line tonight as part of the barbecue

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A Streetcar Named Desire at G2

2017-08-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

A hundred years ago there used to be an annual event called Movie on the Mountain. Some lunatics would haul

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Chango Radio Reventón

2017-08-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do One comment

From El Feis: El proyecto mas problematico, desmadrado, desmadroso, prehispanico, sin calidad, sin futuro, de bajo presupuesto, pero mas amoroso

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Things To Do Today

2017-08-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

The calendar is full and the moon is gibbous. Here are some of the most El Paso things you can

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