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  • Red Elvises at Sunset Parlor this Tuesday

    2025-11-15 elrichiboy

    Your favorite band brings it back to El Paso this Tuesday, at the Sunset Parlor.

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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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Critical Mass, Anyone?

2018-04-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

On Thursday, April 19, a bunch of cyclists are taking over the streets of Juarez for the Día Mundial de

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Still Lives: Abiquiú

2018-04-17 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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You Messed Up

2018-04-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Mayor Dee Margo, who promised during his campaign to “Hold the line on taxes,” thinks you’re not paying enough in

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Live Webcast

2018-04-16 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are playing at the Plaza Theatre on Thursday, April 26. I’ve already got my

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Banditos at Lowbrow Palace April 22

2018-04-16 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Hey, retro rock and rollers. Do you know this band, the Banditos? No, not the American motorcycle club with a

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Expanding My Uni Verse

2018-04-16 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I’ve decided to immerse myself into learning a new language. Martian was my first choice

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How To Be An Unregistered Lobbyist

2018-04-16 elrichiboy City Council Leave a comment

It’s easy. Lobbyists are only people who are paid to lobby. If you’re paid for something else, like, say, being

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Transparency, Transhmerancy

2018-04-16 elrichiboy City Council, Law Enforcement One comment

Tomorrow City Council is appointing a “City of El Paso Ad Hoc Charter Advisory Committee for the purpose of a

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Sunday Matinee: Hell’s Island

2018-04-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 film noir, in VistaVision Technicolor! Watch this video on YouTube Here’s what the director, Phil Karlson had

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Studio Tour

2018-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Are you doing anything this weekend? Maybe you’d like to see how art happens. More than three dozen artists are

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Calexico at Tricky Falls April 19

2018-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do 2 comments

Calexico, the band that should have been named Juarpaso, plays at Tricky Falls this Thursday. Here they are with a

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City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico

2018-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 17 comments

by John Mulhouse Empty Desks In Socorro County, New Mexico, tucked off a side road that parallels I-25, not far

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The Long Goodbye

2018-04-13 elrichiboy City of Dust, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population

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It’s All In The Spin

2018-04-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to

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Tales From the Morgue

2018-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue

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Correction: The Recent City Council Vote To Raise Your Taxes

2018-04-11 elrichiboy Corrections, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Recently I wrote that City Council, by increasing El Paso Electric’s Street Rental Fee, cut the reduction to our electric

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El Feis

2018-04-10 elrichiboy Perspectives 3 comments

I don’t understand the Facebook controversy. Did anyone think that Facebook wasn’t selling your information? Did you think it was

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El Paso is Unique

2018-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider 4 comments

Marketers like to talk about a product’s Unique Selling Proposition; that is, the things that differentiate a product from other

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Sunday Matinee: God of War

2018-04-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a cool Chinese Ming dynasty era war movie, in Mandarin (Cantonese?) with English subtitles, so you can watch it

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Still Lives: Taos

2018-04-05 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Art, New Mexico, Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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  • Thank the Taxpayers
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