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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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Rellenos

2017-12-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico Leave a comment

Despite Mexico’s reputation as a culinary destination, downtown Juarez lacks an abundance of great street food. Mostly the street food

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PSY’s DADDY: Your New Favorite Song

2017-12-21 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments

PSY’s Gangnum Style is the most watched video of all time with over three billion views. Here’s his latest offering:

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City of Dust: Monticello, New Mexico

2017-12-21 John Mulhouse City of Dust 39 comments

Peace in the Valley Okay, it’s true that Monticello, New Mexico isn’t a full-on ghost town. Some folks do indeed

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Retrovision: Go Local: Holiday Edition

2017-12-20 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

[This post originally appeared on 22 December 2015, but it’s still got legs.] Somehow the holidays always sneak up on

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Roy Clark and Gatemouth Brown: Frankie and Johnny

2017-12-20 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Listen to Roy Clark and Gatemouth Brown trade licks on this rendition of a classic song of questionable parentage. Watch

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More Lies From Those Lying Liars

2017-12-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Another City Council meeting, another cubic yard of manure. From our English language daily: The city will issue an extra

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The Conspiracy

2017-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Politics, Slider 4 comments

Did y’all read that letter from former District 2 Representative Jim Tolbert? Of course you did. It’s been on a

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Indy Shorts: The Poacher

2017-12-19 elrichiboy Shorts, Video One comment

Because I know you’re busy, here’s an seven and a half minute short movie about what it might be like

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Retrovision: The City’s War on Small Business

2017-12-18 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Retrovision, Taxes Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on December 7, 2016. God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless.

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Allocating Scarce Resources

2017-12-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

Income is finite. That’s a hard concept to get your mind around, because income, in aggregate, is so large, and

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Sunday Matinee: The Killers 1946

2017-12-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Yesterday we watched the 1964 remake of this movie, starring Lee Marvin and a 33-year-old Angie Dickinson. Today we’re showing

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Saturday Matinee: The Killers, 1964

2017-12-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Judging just by the credits, this might be the best movie ever. It stars Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and John

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Affordable Housing

2017-12-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Cost of Living, Economic Development 7 comments

Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak alerted me to this list from Canadian data muncher Point2Homes that ranks housing affordability in

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Rent Seeking

2017-12-16 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

From Investopedia.com: What is ‘Rent-Seeking’ Rent-seeking is the use of the resources of a company, an organization or an individual

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Retrovision: Commercial Property Tax Valuations Down

2017-12-15 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes Leave a comment

[Our shrinking tax base isn’t a new thing. This article originally appeared on August 5, 2014. Since then, our city

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About That Children’s Museum

2017-12-15 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

El Paso Community Foundation President Eric Pearson says the Children’s Museum is going to be an economic driver. From KVIA:

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How Do We Evaluate Our Economic Development Policy?

2017-12-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Short answer: We don’t. I mean, except by the bank accounts of our community’s wealthiest citizens. They’re not going to

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City of Dust: Montoya, New Mexico

2017-12-14 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Almost No Kicks If you drive east of last week’s featured town of Newkirk on old Route 66, at some

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Lucha Libre Last Sunday

2017-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

The lucha libre season at Arena Kalaka is closing out this Sunday. Arena Kalaka is over there on Melchor Ocampo,

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Big (Hearted) Al

2017-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube An El Paso legend passed this week. In the ‘80’s, no matter what kind of

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