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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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Oh, the Hypocrisy!

2017-08-16 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Are out-of-towners meddling in El Paso’s affairs? From KVIA: A leader of the Paso Del Sur group opposing building an

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Commissioners Court Shenanigans

2017-08-15 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Taxes 2 comments

DavidK started speculating last week that Susie Byrd would run against David Stout for Commissioner Stout’s District 2 seat on

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Juan Gabriel: La Frontera featuring Julión Álvarez

2017-08-14 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

Here’s Juan Gabriel singing a remix of La Frontera, a song that celebrates the border that he wrote maybe a

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They’re Bullies.

2017-08-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 15 comments

Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one of the state’s richest men and one with

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious

2017-08-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1946 flick that has everything: drunk driving, violence, smoking in bed. And the OSS pimping out a chick

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Tonight: Laramie Dean at the Neon Rose/Boomtown

2017-08-12 elrichiboy Music, What to Do Leave a comment

The Neon Rose has an identity problem. Everyone thinks it’s still Boomtown. Maybe it still is.’ Watch this video on

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Things To Do Today

2017-08-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

The calendar is full and the moon is gibbous. Here are some of the most El Paso things you can

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City of Dust: Pie Town, New Mexico

2017-08-10 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

Pie Town, New Mexico In the pinon-juniper woodland west of Socorro, New Mexico, just east of the Arizona line, is

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A Bar On Both Sides of the Border?

2017-08-09 elrichiboy Mexico, World News 2 comments

Maybe it’s just a PR stunt. From Mexico News Daily: They haven’t any permits yet but a Scottish brewery that

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Tonight! Bravos versus Chivas!

2017-08-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight over there at the stadium in Juarez, our hometown Juarez Bravos are taking on the Guadalajara Chivas as part

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City Council is Helpless

2017-08-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

In this week’s El Paso Inc., Mayor Dee Margo explains why the property tax increase isn’t his fault. Dee Margo

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This Land Is Your Land . . . No, Not Yours

2017-08-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider One comment

Here’s a comment I received last night, in its entirety. I tried busking in downtown El Paso today for the

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Thanks But No Thanks

2017-08-08 elrichiboy City Council Leave a comment

Tonight I sent an email to my City Representative. Another reader complained that the security guards at San Jacinto Plaza

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Movie Night: Virtuosity

2017-08-08 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment

There are more movies available than I can show one day a week. So I’m expanding my movie offerings. Welcome

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Music Video: Frontera Bugalú

2017-08-08 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a new (?) video I just found on El Feis. Everybody’s favorite ex-El Paso band, Frontera Bugalú. It’s righteous.

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You Got My Vote

2017-08-07 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I walked into the house this week and thought I had passed through a portal

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Music Video: Amalia Mondragon at Dave’s Pawn Shop

2017-08-07 elrichiboy Music, Slider, Video One comment

Here’s a video by local talent Amalia Mondragon. Watch this video on YouTube Amalia describes herself as a chuqueña, from

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The Local Economy is Booming. For Contractors.

2017-08-07 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Opportunity Costs, Quality of Life Projects One comment

Good news, sports fans. The El Paso economy is growing, according to this story in the El Paso Inc. “As

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Sunday Matinee: The Vikings

2017-08-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s the 1958 classic The Vikings, starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, and Janet Leigh. Watch this video on

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City of Dust: Vaughn, New Mexico

2017-08-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust 18 comments

Cross Road Blues Back around 2013, Vaughn, New Mexico was probably best known for its police force, which consisted of

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