Banditos at Lowbrow Palace April 22
Hey, retro rock and rollers. Do you know this band, the Banditos? No, not the American motorcycle club with a
Expanding My Uni Verse
Watch this video on YouTube I’ve decided to immerse myself into learning a new language. Martian was my first choice
How To Be An Unregistered Lobbyist
It’s easy. Lobbyists are only people who are paid to lobby. If you’re paid for something else, like, say, being
Transparency, Transhmerancy
Tomorrow City Council is appointing a “City of El Paso Ad Hoc Charter Advisory Committee for the purpose of a
Sunday Matinee: Hell’s Island
Here’s a 1956 film noir, in VistaVision Technicolor! Watch this video on YouTube Here’s what the director, Phil Karlson had
Studio Tour
Are you doing anything this weekend? Maybe you’d like to see how art happens. More than three dozen artists are
Calexico at Tricky Falls April 19
Calexico, the band that should have been named Juarpaso, plays at Tricky Falls this Thursday. Here they are with a
City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
by John Mulhouse Empty Desks In Socorro County, New Mexico, tucked off a side road that parallels I-25, not far
The Long Goodbye
The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population
It’s All In The Spin
Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to
Tales From the Morgue
From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue
Correction: The Recent City Council Vote To Raise Your Taxes
Recently I wrote that City Council, by increasing El Paso Electric’s Street Rental Fee, cut the reduction to our electric
El Feis
I don’t understand the Facebook controversy. Did anyone think that Facebook wasn’t selling your information? Did you think it was
El Paso is Unique
Marketers like to talk about a product’s Unique Selling Proposition; that is, the things that differentiate a product from other
Sunday Matinee: God of War
Here’s a cool Chinese Ming dynasty era war movie, in Mandarin (Cantonese?) with English subtitles, so you can watch it
Still Lives: Taos
Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing
The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail
Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,
The City’s Filmmaker Program
This from KVIA: The El Paso City Council voted to create a local Filmmaker Program. The city will award $30,000
Waiting Room
I’m sitting in a waiting room at the Hospital de la Familia, one floor up and a hundred yards from
Champions League Today
Barcelona hosts Roma at 12:45. I think I’m going to La Esquina de Chihuahuas to watch the game and maybe