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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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  • Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

    2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda

    From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and state levels.  An array of

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Mezcal, the Next Big Thing

2017-06-16 elrichiboy World News One comment

French liquor giant Pernod Ricard is buying an interest in a mezcal importer, according to this story in Forbes. In

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“Affordable Family Entertainment”

2017-06-16 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Remember when those nice people were pitching the ballpark as “affordable family entertainment”? Here’s Josh Hunt in an El Paso

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Cafe Tacvba at JRZ Music Fest

2017-06-15 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Tomorrow at the JRZ Music Fest the headliner is Cafe Tacvba. Cafe Tacvba had a slew of hits back in

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Mo’ Money

2017-06-15 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Did you see this story on KVIA about Cohen Stadium? A windstorm damaged the shade canopy structure [at Cohen Stadium]

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Elroop

2017-06-15 elrichiboy Art, Navel Gazing One comment

I’m thinking about marketing myself as a lifestyle brand. You know. Like Gwyneth Paltrow. From the New York Post: Gwyneth

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Happy Birthday, Monarch

2017-06-14 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Monarch turns four today. I remember when she was in pigtails and braces, with skinned knees from learning to ride

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Now That the Horse Has Left the Barn . . .

2017-06-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Too late for some stadiums . . . From ESPN.com: A group of politicians who are tired of taxpayer money

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JRZ Music Fest Schedule

2017-06-13 elrichiboy Juarez, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This weekend is the JRZ Music Fest in Juarez. On Friday the headliners are Cafe Tacvba. On Saturday it’s Los

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Good News and Bad News

2017-06-13 elrichiboy Trolley 2 comments

The good news is that Stanton Street is open for two-way traffic north of Schuster. The bad news is that

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Why didn’t they call it an arena?

2017-06-13 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 3 comments

I know you’ve been wondering the same thing. If they wanted to build an arena downtown, why didn’t they call

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What 8.57% Means

2017-06-12 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 14 comments

Politics in El Paso is in a sorry state. There are 364,537 registered voters in El Paso. Only 31,255 of

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Sunday Matinee: Ferrum

2017-06-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Sorry I’m late. I got caught in internet traffic. Ferrum is some kind of existential Russian gangster art flick. I

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City of Dust: Cuervo, New Mexico

2017-06-09 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

Where Crows Flew When it comes to ghost towns, it doesn’t get much better than Cuervo, New Mexico. Its condition

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Mexico Only Has Two Problems . . .

2017-06-08 elrichiboy Mexico, Video Leave a comment

You, and everyone else. Here’s a video that takes a stab at Mexico’s chronic problems. Check it out.

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Visit Juarez Like a Tourist

2017-06-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 6 comments

Do you go to Juarez? If you do, you likely only go to the bars and restaurants. And who can

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In the News, Sorta

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Gabriel Solis writes about how At the Drive In changed his life. At Vice.com: “No guey, you don’t get it!”

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Shrub by Valentin Sandoval

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Video Leave a comment

Valentin Sandoval is a videographer and the author of South Sun Rising, a critically acclaimed bilingual prose poem about his

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Anyone But Adolfo

2017-06-07 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 4 comments

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse candidates. Well, we might, if we were one hundred and ten percent sure that they were

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The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous

2017-06-05 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Retrovision 4 comments

Back before we were old enough to drink, we drank Schlitz. Schlitz tall boys, in steel cans, with a seam

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Renonsense Man

2017-06-05 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend recently referred to another friend as the common term for a polymath and I thought, yeah…nah. Actually, I

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