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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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He’s Such a Good Boy

2017-05-01 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Did you see Mayor Oscar Leeser’s column in the El Paso Times this weekend? It has not even been a

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Champions League Semis Tuesday and Wednesday

2017-05-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

The first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals takes place tomorrow and Wednesday at 12:45, like lunch dessert. The

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Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet

2017-04-30 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

I don’t know what movie you’re in right now, but this song is part of the soundtrack for the movie

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Sunday Matinee: Hellzapoppin’

2017-04-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a zany 1941 slapstick comedy based on a long-running Broadway show. It’s a wacky spectacular example of burlesque comedy

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Now I Need a Bigger Hat

2017-04-30 elrichiboy Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

We’re famous. From Aljazeera: In the early 1970s, Richard Wright, a native of El Paso, Texas, began crossing the then

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JRZ Musicfest June 16 & 17

2017-04-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Music, What to Do 3 comments

Zowie. They’re having some shindig over in Juarez in June. The headliners, for instance, are Los Tigres del Norte and

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Rincón de San Narcos Marcos

2017-04-29 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from the Daily Beast titled The Narco Trafficker Next Door that gives a shout out to our

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Why Our Streets Have Potholes

2017-04-28 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

One of the first issues our next mayor is going to have to confront is the budget. We’re in debt,

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Desponchadora Rapidito

2017-04-28 elrichiboy Cost of Living, How to Live in El Paso One comment

In Mexico, the three biggest industries are petroleum, public corruption, and desponchadoras. There are so many desponchadoras in Juarez that

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Free Money

2017-04-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council Leave a comment

Giving the City the authority to grant millions of dollars in tax rebates is a Petrie dish for corruption. Come

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How to Be a Latin Lover Trailer

2017-04-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Here’s a trailer for a movie that premieres this weekend. Check it out.

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City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico

2017-04-27 John Mulhouse City of Dust 15 comments

Little Place on the Prairie The Homestead Act of 1862 was an attempt by the U.S. government to entice citizens

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Viva Tirado Live

2017-04-27 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

There’s the scene in Up In Smoke where Cheech says, “We play every kind of music. Everything from Santana to

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Ski Jump Tires

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

When I was a kid we’d find old tires up on the mesas and roll them off. Somehow it’s oddly

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1 + 1 = Infinity

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

It occurred to me as I was walking home from Monarch right now that I missed the obvious conclusion of

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Brand Management Chuco-Style

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso 2 comments

There’s a branch of marketing that apparently hasn’t made its way to El Paso yet. It’s called Brand Management. At

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If You Don’t Expect Too Much, You Won’t Be Disappointed

2017-04-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Politics Leave a comment

Maybe it’s because El Pasoans are used to paying less than retail. But we sure are in the habit of

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Titilating Speculation

2017-04-25 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

Here’s an entry from Jaime Barceleau’s Campaign Finance Report. Mr. Barceleau is campaigning to be the City Representative for District

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Those Poor Dears

2017-04-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

God bless our city’s business leaders. This is from a story in this weeks’s El Paso Inc.: “The reason the

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Whale, That Escalated Quickly

2017-04-24 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I read an article about neuroplasticity and it appears the plasticity of my neuro is selective. I over-sleep two days

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