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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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The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Slider 3 comments

Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,

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The City’s Filmmaker Program

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

This from KVIA: The El Paso City Council voted to create a local Filmmaker Program. The city will award $30,000

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Waiting Room

2018-04-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 4 comments

I’m sitting in a waiting room at the Hospital de la Familia, one floor up and a hundred yards from

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Champions League Today

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

Barcelona hosts Roma at 12:45. I think I’m going to La Esquina de Chihuahuas to watch the game and maybe

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Special City Council Meetings? Updated

2018-04-03 elrichiboy City Council 2 comments

I just heard (on the livestream of the City Council’s regular meeting) that videos of the El Paso City Council

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Sunday Matinee: Beyond Mombassa

2018-04-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Like last week’s trip to 1954 Machu Pichu, here’s a time travelogue to Kenya in 1956. Starring Cornel Wilde and

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Special Feature: Daughter of God

2018-03-30 elrichiboy Art, Movie Night, Video 3 comments

Here’s a trippy, tender, messed up, Keanu flick. It was originally released as Exposed to much less than stellar reviews,

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That’s the Ticket

2018-03-26 GC Adams Uncategorized 5 comments

Watch this video on YouTube During today’s walk, a Code Enforcement vehicle stopped in front of me and a woman

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Last Week, City Council Raised Your Taxes

2018-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

As I mentioned last week, but this time from the El Paso Inc.: The price that El Paso Electric must

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Sunday Matinee: Secret of the Incas

2018-03-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. No, really. Sort of. 1954, with Nicole Murray as a sexy Romanian Cold War

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Local Film Short: Nacido de Nuevo

2018-03-24 elrichiboy Art, Shorts, Video 2 comments

El Paso’s nascent film scene is happening right under our noses. Here’s an award-winning short from Los Angeles filmmaker Evan

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Since 1987, the County of El Paso has been getting a quarter of the sales tax collected in the city.

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We’re Number 2! (For Now)

2018-03-23 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Fort Worth has slightly higher property tax rates than El Paso. For now. According to SmartAsset.com (killer website name), the

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Still Lives: Flora Vista

2018-03-22 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse 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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A Rose By Any Other Name

2018-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? El Paso Electric ratepayers will see a smaller than expected

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Toro Toro Toro

2018-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

After a long hiatus, the bullfights are back in Juarez. April 7 features a slew of rejoneadores. Those rejoneadores are

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Bread and Taxes

2018-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Right now I’m making bread. I’m at the part of the bread-making process where a lump of dough sits in

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City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)

2018-03-19 John Mulhouse City of Dust 20 comments

Too Small to be a Village, Not Large Enough to be a Town On Highway 55, about 40 miles south

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“Mayor Sitting on Ethics Revisions”

2018-03-19 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 5 comments

That’s the front page headline of the El Paso Inc. this weekend. Here’s what it says: Members of the city’s

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Sunday Matinee: Pushover (1954)

2018-03-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This classic features Fred MacMurray as a cop lured over to the dark side by the lovely Kim Novak, in

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