Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño
  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

    Continue reading
  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

    Continue reading
  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

    Continue reading
  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

    Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico,

    Continue reading
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

    2025-12-13 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter

    2025-12-11 elrichiboy

    NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there by Santa Teresa. Mostly the

    Continue reading
  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

    2025-12-06 Kent Paterson

    Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has been promoted under different names

    Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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,

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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,

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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.

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 118 119 120 121 122 … 198 Next Posts»

A Buck a Month

Come on. If everyone who read El Chuqueño donated just a dollar a month, I'd have a few more dollars. Make a difference. Invest in the alternative narrative, and help a brother out.

The People Speak!

  • John G. Dungan on An “Unprecedented” Event
  • John G. Dungan on The Primary Elections
  • Ben on Shopping South El Paso Street
  • LaWanda Faulks on City of Dust: Causey, New Mexico
  • Eva Mendez on The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism
  • Eva Mendez on The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism
  • elrichiboy on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Jerry K on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs

El Chuqueño Lately

  • An “Unprecedented” Event
  • The Primary Elections
  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”
  • “That one night in jail at El Paso was tough.” | The Man in Black’s El Paso Drug Bust
  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

Stuff we talk about