By Bob Chessey This is Part 3 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Valera’s Arrest The
Energy Drinks
Have you ever had a Red Bull? Like maybe that one time you were driving by yourself down the valley
City of Dust: San Antonio, New Mexico
The Roots of Paris Hilton Around the turn of the 20th Century, a boy would walk from his father’s mercantile
The Mayoral Candidates’ Alternate Universe: We’re Doomed
The El Paso Times today reports on a debate among three of the mayoral candidates, sponsored by everyone’s favorite higher-tax
The Real Costs of the QoL Projects
Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for a the city with the second lowest per
El Paso’s Alternate Universe
Every week, there’s a surprising new story in the El Paso Inc. This week the frontpage story is headlined Montecillo
Do Class Clowns Have Reunions?
My childhood friend, Larry Zavala, asked if I was going to our high school reunion and sent me a link
About El Chuqueño
I’m not against change. Change is the natural state of the universe. Change is as inevitable as gravity. Or friction.
Friday Short: Times Like Dying
Here’s a twenty minute Western about bank robbers and a consumptive sheriff. Check it out.
I Lie When I Drink
The incomparable Dale Watson. Check it out.
Happy Birthday, Hag.
Merle Haggard would have turned 80 years old today if he hadn’t died last year on his 79th birthday. The
Do You Smell Something?
Remember that 2012 Quality of Life bond election? That Bond Proposal movement was a juggernaut. I think they had three
What’s it for, anyway?
I still have some questions about that Multipurpose Performing Arts Center. Like where and when to build it. I know
It’s the Thought . . .
Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (astronomers really need to get more creative with their names or, you know what, never mind, I’ll do
Jarabe de Palo at Tricky Falls Tonight
Jarabe de Palo is a Spanish rock band, and they’re everything you’d think a Spanish rock band should be, unless
Día de San Ricardo
Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel.org. Tradition dictates
That Explains It.
The El Paso Inc. this week unwrapped the study that HKS Inc. did for the City of El Paso to
Sunday Matinee: Hooligan
Here’s a entertaining documentary about the English disease: hooliganism. It seems that in the seventies and eighties, a certain element
City of Dust: Duran, New Mexio
The Last Hanging Crime Someday I’ll tell you a tale of a town that didn’t owe its very existence to
The American Dream Index
Here’s an article from Forbes that rates the 50 states according to the future and viability of their middle class.
Make El Paso Great Again
Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that the hubris of misguided city officials, at the